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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
Photo portrait of Ellen Mazel
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Ellen Mazel oral history
Professional portrait of Martha Majors
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Martha Majors: Creating waves of impact through mentorship
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
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
Portrait painting of John Dix Fisher circa 1840
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Dr. John Dix Fisher
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
Margaret “Peg” McRory receiving an award in 1977.
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Margaret McRory oral history
Michael Anagnos
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Michael Anagnos
David Abraham in 1960, photographed in front of boxes of Perkins Braillers.
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Marjorie A. Lamen oral history
Tile collage of Dorothy Ingersoll, Rhoda Pill, and Eleanor Thayer
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Dorothy Ingersoll, Rhoda Pill, and Eleanor Thayer oral history