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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
Close-up of the Christmas Concert Program from 1935 that reads, "Perkins Institution invites you to attend the Concert of Christmas Music".
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Christmas Concert with address by Farrell, 1935
Display of talking books for blind readers from the Library of Congress, 1958.
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1935 WPA talking book machine address
Students with Deafblindness experiencing music.
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Historical Recordings
Display of tactile maps made by students with plasticine from 1937.
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Tangible geography, 1931
Brooks cottage family athletic contest team group portrait, 1935.
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The Girls’ intercottage competition, 1931
Court scene in Thackeray's"Rose of the Ring", given by the Howe Reading Club of the Girls' Department, circa 1911.
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Howe Reading Club, 1929
Cabinet card photograph of Thomas Wiggins as a young man.
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Thomas Wiggins
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
Studio portrait of Gazella Bennett, circa 1895.
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Gazella Bennett
Margaret “Peg” McRory receiving an award in 1977.
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Margaret McRory oral history
Nella Braddy Henney sitting on a large rock under a flowering tree.
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Nella Braddy Henney