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History of blindness education

A group of kindergarten students sit at a wooden table each occupied in reading or writing. They all are wearing white shirts and have medium-light skin tone with hair cut short.
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The history of braille
Three students displaying models of the solar system and constellations made from plastecine. Two of the students are holding up the models and one student is standing next to the table.
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The 1925 Solar Eclipse at Perkins
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
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
Edward Kennedy, facing the camera, shaking Richard C. Carlson's hand. Carlson's back is to the camera.
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Edward M. Kennedy’s 1988 Perkins Graduation Speech
A black and white portrait of Dr. Edward E. Allen. He stands, wearing a white shirt and striped tie under a very dark suit and vest. Allen's hands are in his coat pockets. He has a greying beard and stares at the camera. There is a blurry diamond-shaped pattern in the background. Circa 1910.
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Centenary Address by Dr. Edward E. Allen
View of Girl's Close residential cottages with walkway lined with brick buildings on both sides with the Howe Building Tower behind.
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The Perkins Bells: Sounds and history
Perkins founding director, Samuel Gridley Howe, a white man, in two-thirds view. Howe is 30 years old. He is wearing a black coat and a white shirt with a high, straight collar that extends above a black scarf cravat around his neck. Howe’s dark hair is styled upwards and he wears long sideburns, both popular mens’ hairstyles in the 1830s.
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Samuel Gridley Howe
Studio portrait of Gazella Bennett, circa 1895.
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Gazella Bennett
Michael Anagnos
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Michael Anagnos
Tile collage of Dorothy Ingersoll, Rhoda Pill, and Eleanor Thayer
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Dorothy Ingersoll, Rhoda Pill, and Eleanor Thayer oral history
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