Accessibility
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.
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.
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