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Reading Tips
Each link below goes to a landing page for the resource that contains a variety of formats in which to access the materials. The easiest way to access the works online is to choose the "Read Online" option. A virtual book opens up, complete with cover and pagination. At the top right is a search box. For longer search terms use quotes to refine results. At the bottom right is a toolbar with different layout options and a magnifying glass icon for zooming. If you zoom in on a page in order to scroll left and right you need to collapse the toolbar by clicking the black triangle at the bottom right. Some additional information on formats is available here.
Publications
- The Lantern
- Perkins Annual Reports
- Annual reports from other schools and organizations for the blind
- The Mentor
- The Lens
- Outlook for the Blind
Correspondence
- Incoming and Outgoing Perkins Correspondence, 1828-1932
- Kindergarten Correspondence Collection
- Nella Braddy Henney Collection
- Helen Keller and Arthur Gilman Collection
- Halifax Disaster Collection
Journals and Manuscripts
- Teacher Journals: Deafblind Department, 1841-1849, and 1888-1899
- Laura Bridgman's Journals and Other Writings
- The Work of Thomas Stringer, 1896-1897
- Miss Sullivan's Methods, circa 1900
- Census of 1890, Perkins Institution and Massachusetts School for the Blind
Scrapbooks of Clippings
Click here for expanded list of scrapbooks
- Helen Keller Newspaper Notices
- Perkins Institution
- Perkins Kindergarten
- Articles on Blindness
- Music and Theater in Boston
- Perkins Centennial
- Laura Bridgman
- Royal Normal College for the Blind (now Royal National College for the Blind)
- War Blind
- Adult Blind
- Associations for the Blind
- Guide Dogs for the Blind
- Anthology of English Verse
- Blind Babies
- Medical Aspects of Blindness
- Canadian Blind, 1907-1934
- Deafblind, 1902-1942
- Frances J. Crosby, 1843-1911
- Frederick Douglas Morrison, 1837-1904
- Jewish Activities, 1908-1939
- Pennsylvania (Eastern), 1935-1939
- Sir Francis Campbell, 1907-1910
- Thomas P. Gore, 1907-1917
- Reading and Info Delivery for Blind
Books
- A Key to the Braille Alphabet and Musical Notation
- History of the Howe Press of Perkins School for the Blind, by Edward J. Waterhouse, 1975
- Howe Press Catalog, 1910
- Howe Press Catalog, 1976
- Perkins Institution and its Deaf-Blind Pupils 1837-1933, by Anna Gardner Fish
- Practical Geography for the Blind, by Clara L. Pratt, 1937
- The Centennial of Michael Anagnos (and 50th Anniv. of Kindergarten), 1937
- The Perkins School for the Blind, by Edward E. Allen, 1924