In the archives Archives – Perkins School for the Blind

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Richard Chapman and Claude Ellis running in a race.

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Richard Chapman oral history (2023)

Portrait of George Roukey, a white man, wearing a suit and tie. He is wearing dark glasses.

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The unexpected discovery of a blind ancestor named George

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

Tiled portrait of Augustus Saint-Gaudens painted portrait and photographic portrait of Anna Lyman Gray.

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Anna Lyman Gray and Augustus Saint-Gaudens

Excerpt of handwritten committee report

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Admitting Black students at Perkins in the 1830s

View of Perkins Institution campus from across the Perkins Pond. A boat with two instructors and about seven boys is at the center of the pond. Two of the boys, one in the bow and one in the stern, have their arms over the side of the boat with their fingers in the water. Another group of students sit on the grassy banks. Circa 1914.

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The Perkins Pond

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Lady Campbell

Portrait of Emile Pierre Trencheri, 1832.

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Emile Trencheri

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

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