About this collection:
Photograph albums created by the Perkins Institution and Massachusetts School for the Blind for exhibition at the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893, the St. Louis Exposition of 1904, and the San Francisco Exposition of 1915.
The World’s Columbian Exposition album photographs document the Girls’ Department at the South Boston campus, the boys’ and girls’ Primary School and Kindergarten in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. Photographs are predominately of students attending reading, arithmetic, manual training, music, and physical education classes.
The photographs are of the Boys’ Department at the South Boston campus, the boys’ and girls’ Primary School and Kindergarten in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. Pictures are predominately of the campus, tactile learning devices, students attending reading, arithmetic, manual training, music, and physical education classes, and photographs of performances including recitals and theater productions.
About this inventory:
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Latest update to inventory:
March 26, 2024.
Date range:
1893, 1904, and 1915
Call number:
AG303
Inventory:
World’s Columbian Exposition in 1893
- Box 1: Perkins Institution and Massachusetts School for the Blind, Prepared for the World’s Columbian Exposition,1893
- Box 2: Perkins Institution and Massachusetts School for the Blind, circa 1893
[ The album is not dated, but is similar to other albums made expressly for the World’s Columbian Exposition in 1893.] - Box 3: Kindergarten Department of the Perkins Institution for the Blind Boston Mass. Prepared for the World’s Columbian Exposition, 1893, copy 1
- Box 4: Kindergarten Department of the Perkins Institution for the Blind Boston Mass. Prepared for the World’s Columbian Exposition, 1893, copy 2
St. Louis Exposition,1904
- Box 5: Perkins Institution and Massachusetts School for the Blind Girls’ Department, South Boston, Mass. and Boys’ and Girls’ Primary School’s and Kindergarten, Jamaica Plain, Mass. Prepared for the St. Louis Exposition 1904.
- Box 6: Perkins Institution and Massachusetts School for the Blind Boys’ Department, South Boston, Mass. Prepared for the St. Louis Exposition 1904.
San Francisco Exposition,1915
Box 7: “Views covering the work for the blind being done in Massachusetts. Shown at the San Francisco Exposition on a revolving bulletin board, turned by electricity.”
Existence and location of copies
Digitized reproductions of the collection are available on Perkins Archives Flickr.
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