Guide
Digital collections on the Perkins Archives Flickr site
The Perkins Archives Flickr site provides access to archival materials in our collections, which include digitized photographs and documents, as well as photographed artifacts.
Our Flickr collections are undergoing a reparative metadata update, and consequently, most of our older collections are not up to our current standards of accessibility. If you need more of an image description than what is provided please contact the archives staff at [email protected] and we will provide you with one. By creating or logging in to your own Flickr account you can comment or add additional information to our collections. Visit Perkins Archives Flickr site to explore our diverse collections or use the links provided on this page to explore the collections by topic.
If you’re interested in using any of our images, please see our Image Use and Licensing page for more information.
Helen Keller collections
- Helen Keller photograph collection
- Anagnos-Sullivan-Keller correspondence, 1886-1896
- Condolence messages sent to Helen Keller upon the death of Anne Sullivan Macy
- First day issue of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan stamp and cachet collection, 1980
- Franz Rickaby Poem
- Helen Keller in the Middle East
- Helen Keller and Arthur Gilman collection
- Highlights of the Nella Braddy Henney correspondence
- Nella Braddy Henney collection, Helen Keller photographs
- Robert R. Chaney Helen Keller collection
- Writing systems for the blind used by Helen Keller
Perkins history collections
- Edward E. Allen collection
- Edward J. Waterhouse collection
- Exhibitions and open houses
- Howe’s circle of 19th century acquaintances
- Howe Press and workshop
- Kindergarten for the Blind photographs
- Ledgers and account books
- Libraries
- Michael Anagnos
- Perkins campus architecture
- Perkins globe: Historic images, restoration and paint analysis
- Perkins paintings collection
- Perkins photograph albums
- Perkins pond
- Perkins postcard collection
- Ray Charles concert, 1982
- Sesquicentennial t-shirt competition
- Staff photographs and educators of the blind
- Teacher training
- Travels in Japan, Waterhouse and Smithdas, 1967
- World’s Fair albums
- World War II relief efforts
Deafblindness collections
- Julia Brace
- Laura Bridgman collection
- Robert Smithdas
- Students with deafblindness at Perkins School for the Blind
- Tad Chapman
Curriculum and student activities
- Frederick M. Logan WPA collection
- Girls’ cottage families
- Geography collection
- Manual arts and vocational training
- Math and science photographs
- Outings and field trips
- Perkins concert at Charlestown, MA State Prison
- Physical education at Perkins
- Piano tuning album
- Reading and writing photographs and appliances
- Tactile map collection
- Theater collection
Books and materials for students who are blind
- Early embossed books
- First braille books
- First embossed book for the blind
- Frederick M. Logan WPA Collection
- Kunz collection of tactile maps and graphics
- Proposed alphabets for the blind, 1836
- Smithsonian exhibition loan items, 1980
Other schools and organizations for people who are blind
- French War blind postcards
- Imperial Royal Institute for the Education of the Blind, Vienna
- Overbrook School for the Blind
- Red Cross Institute for the Blind postcards
- Royal Normal College for the Blind, England
- Winifred Holt Mather correspondence
Other collections
- 19th Century illustrated letterhead
- Blind in art
- Halifax Disaster clippings, 1917-1918
- Hearing aids collection
- Joseph Rodrigo
- Julia Ward Howe
- Lantern slides
- Stereographs
- War blind and propaganda poster collection
- William Hickling Prescott
