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Digitized adult blind scrapbooks

Collection of scrapbooks containing clippings about services and concerns of adults who are blind. Topics include occupations, associations, events, and group homes, 1860-1942.

Accessibility

Our goal is provide resources that are accessible to all

The digitized scrapbooks on the topic of “Adult Blind” have been digitized and made available on the Internet Archive, which utilizes optical character recognition (OCR) and downloadable file formats, including Daisy, to provide access to users who are blind and visually impaired. We acknowledge that OCR is prone to errors, and cannot recognize graphics or handwritten text, thus creating barriers to these materials. It is our intention that by providing the materials as is, the resource is findable online to all. If any of Perkins Archives resources accessed online aren’t accessible in part or in whole, to a user because of a disability, we will create an accessible version upon request. 


Adult blind scrapbooks on the Internet Archive

Links to scrapbooks are grouped alphabetically by state and then by the title of the organization, followed by volume and years. The one exception to this is for the volumes listed under “Occupations” which has no state affiliation. There are 60 volumes in total spanning 1860-1942.

California


Connecticut


Illinois


Louisiana


Maine


Maryland


Massachusetts


Missouri


New Jersey


New York


Occupations


Ohio


Pennsylvania


Rhode Island


Texas


Washington

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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