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Five boys sit at a wooden table each occupied in reading or writing with embossed books, braillers, slate and stylus, and an activity board.
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National History Day 2024 in the Perkins Archives
Excerpt of handwritten committee report
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Admitting Black students at Perkins in the 1830s
View of Perkins Institution campus from across the Perkins Pond. A boat with two instructors and about seven boys is at the center of the pond. Two of the boys, one in the bow and one in the stern, have their arms over the side of the boat with their fingers in the water. Another group of students sit on the grassy banks. Circa 1914.
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The Perkins Pond
Portrait of Lady Campbell. In three-quarter profile with hair parted down the middle and braided in the back. Wearing a dress with lace collar and dark lacy shawl.
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Lady Campbell
Portrait of Emile Pierre Trencheri, 1832.
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Emile Trencheri
Portrait of Cora Crocker, a Perkins student with deafblindness, wearing a long white dress and leaning against an ornately carved wooden chair. Portrait studio backdrop has a classical column at the top right.
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Cora Crocker
Cabinet card photograph of Thomas Wiggins as a young man.
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Thomas Wiggins
Studio portrait of Gazella Bennett, circa 1895.
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Gazella Bennett
Michael Anagnos
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Michael Anagnos
Seated three-quarter portrait of Charles Frederick Fraser. Fraser has thick mutton-chop sideburns and wears a long coat and patterned cravat.
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Charles Frederick Fraser
Portraits of Julia Ward Howe
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Julia Ward Howe
Title page of a book printed in Boston Line Type, an embossed Roman alphabet for use by the blind, titled "The Blind Child's Second Book".
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National History Day 2023 in the Perkins Archives