Perkins Archives Blog
November 18, 2016
A Perkins Archives interns experience processing the Anne Sullivan Centennial Commemoration collection.
November 14, 2016
I was presented with four packages of programs wrapped in brown paper which had not been touched in about sixty years.
October 25, 2016
Blog entry about how different versions of letters can influence the understanding of their contents and the correspondence.
September 20, 2016
The Perkins School for the Blind Archives recently received an offer of a donation that also came with a valuable observation.
July 12, 2016
Over 100 maps from the 1830's to the 1960's have just been added to the Perkins Archives digital map collection.
May 25, 2016
In the incoming correspondence from 1868-1869 there are three letters from Dickens to founding Perkins Director, S.G. Howe.
April 25, 2016
An intern's experience working in the Perkins Archives digitizing a Helen Keller and Nella Braddy Henney correspondence collection.
March 23, 2016
Helen Keller's prepared responses to questions from the audience during her Vaudeville performances.
March 2, 2016
The Research Library staff was surprised and excited to receive three books printed at Perkins in 1836, 1837, and 1839.
February 17, 2016
Important research materials related to the life of Samuel Gridley Howe, Julia Ward Howe and their daughters was gifted to the Perkins School.