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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
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
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
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
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