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View of Ray Charles playing piano and singing. He wears dark glasses, suit, and bow tie.
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Ray Charles at Perkins
Left tile is a portait of Charles Barbier. Right tile is a photograph of a bust of Louis Braille.
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Louis Braille, Charles Barbier, and the making of a myth
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
Two tiled portraits. On the left, a photographic portrait of Isabella Stewart Gardner from 1888 courtesy of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. On the right, a group photographic portrait of the young students and on the steps of the Kindergarten for the Blind, circa 1893.
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Isabella Stewart Gardner and the Kindergarten
Exerpt of handwritten letter from Henry David Thoreau.
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A letter from Henry David Thoreau
Charles Lindsay with his uniformed driver, George S. Harvey. Both men are wearing long coats and hats, Lindsay in a bowler hat. Lindsay has his hand on Harvey's elbow, in a sighted guide position. There is an old-style car behind them.
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Sir Charles William Lindsay
Howe Building in the snow in 1913.
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Memories of a Perkins’ winter wonderland
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