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Digitized Perkins Institution scrapbooks
Collection of scrapbooks of clippings with articles about Perkins Institution, now Perkins School for the Blind, spanning 1833-1957.
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The “Perkins Institution” scrapbooks have been digitized and made available on the Internet Archive website, 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.
Perkins Institution scrapbooks on the Internet Archive
Links to scrapbooks are arranged by volume followed by years, earliest to latest. There are 50 volumes total spanning 1833-1957.
The school was named the New England Institution for the Education of the Blind from 1832-1839, Perkins Institution and Massachusetts Asylum for the Blind from 1839-1877, Perkins Institution and Massachusetts School for the Blind from 1877-1955, and Perkins School for the Blind from 1955 until today.
- Volume 2, 1833-1880
- Volume 3, September 1880-May 1883
- Volume 4, June 1883-April 1884
- Volume 5, April 1884-March 1885
- Volume 6, May 1885-July 1886
- Volume 7, July 1886-May 1888
- Volume 8, May 1888-July 1889
- Volume 9, July 1889-December 1890
- Volume 10, January 1891-March 1892
- Volume 11, March 1892-December 1892
- Volume 12, January 1893-December 1893
- Volume 13, January 1894-December 1894
- Volume 14, January 1895-February 1896
- Volume 15, March 1896-April 1897
- Volume 16, April 1897-December 1898
- Volume 17, January 1899-December 1899
- Volume 18, January 1900-December 1900
- Volume 19, January 1901-October 1901
- Volume 20, November 1901-April 1902
- Volume 21, April 1902-December 1902
- Volume 22, January 1903-May 1904
- Volume 23, May 1904-December 1905
- Volume 24, January 1906-December 1906
- Volume 25, January 1907-May 1908
- Volume 26, June 1908-October 1909
- Volume 27, November 1909-June 1911
- Volume 28, June 1911-November 1913
- Volume 29, December 1913-April 1915
- Volume 30, May 1915-August1916
- Volume 31, August 1916-April 1918
- Volume 32, May 1918-March 1920
- Volume 33, March 1920-December 1921
- Volume 34, December 1921-June 1923
- Volume 35, June 1923-April 1925
- Volume 36, April 1925-October 1927
- Volume 37, October 1927-July 1930
- Volume 38, August 1930-November 1932
- Volume 39, November 1932-September 1934
- Volume 40, September 1934-November 1935
- Volume 41, November 1935-March 1937
- Volume 42, March 1937-December 1937
- Volume 43, December 1937-December 1938
- Volume 44, January 1939-October 1940
- Volume 45, October 1940-December 1942
- Volume 46, January 1943-December 1946
- Volume 47-48, January 1947-December 1949
- Volume 49, October 1949-January 1950
- Volume 50, January 1950-December 1953
- Volume 51, January 1954-May 1957
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