Perkins alumni Archives – Perkins School for the Blind

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A series of polariods depicting the Perkins Class of 1972, Marie as a student, Marie as an adult on the phone, and Marie with her guide dog.

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Perkins alumna Marie Hennessy chooses to give back to her community

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

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View of Girl's Close residential cottages with walkway lined with brick buildings on both sides with the Howe Building Tower behind.

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The Perkins Bells: Sounds and history

Portrait of Mrs. Lahoud at age 87. She has thick brown short hair and friendly smile. She sits on a padded white recliner, close to a floor lamp, a bench, and a piano.

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How a teacher shaped the first school for the blind in Lebanon

Tile collage of Dorothy Ingersoll, Rhoda Pill, and Eleanor Thayer

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Dorothy Ingersoll, Rhoda Pill, and Eleanor Thayer oral history

Seated three-quarter portrait of Charles Frederick Fraser. Fraser has thick mutton-chop sideburns and wears a long coat and patterned cravat.

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Charles Frederick Fraser

Rachael Noyes

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Rachael Noyes oral history

Campus of Perkins School for the Blind in Watertown in 1913

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Helen Gerdes Raschi oral history

Portrait of Lenna Swinerton, circa 1900.

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Lenna Swinerton, an alumna who paid it forward

Two girls share a desk and point to their screen. Their teacher, wearing a brown sweater and a blue mask, sits on the opposite side of the desk .

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San Isidro welcomes accessible initiative

Elizabeth Hoxie, a medium skin toned woman with her hair in a bun, with Nellie Winitzky, a medium skin tone adolescent with dark hair tied back in bows, seated in a portrait studio with flocked curtains. Hoxie has a book open on her lap and is using tactile fingerspelling to communicate with Winitzky.

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Teaching Nellie Winitzky