[Nfb-history] {Disarmed} FW: The Latest from the Archives!

Tue Dec 1 22:28:41 UTC 2015

Hello Colleagues:

     I thought the following newsletter would be of interest.

Regards,

Robert

From: Perkins Archives [mailto:Molly.Stothert-Maurer=Perkins.org at mail195.atl21.rsgsv.net] On Behalf Of Perkins Archives
Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2015 8:00 AM
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Subject: The Latest from the Archives!

Perkins Archives eNewsletter, November 2015 

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 <http://perkinsarchives.us6.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=e6c5162e8795bc5c4f5319809&id=3a2a459207&e=ce8108b558>  <http://perkinsarchives.us6.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=e6c5162e8795bc5c4f5319809&id=3a2a459207&e=ce8108b558> Perkins School for the Blind Archives <http://perkinsarchives.us6.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=e6c5162e8795bc5c4f5319809&id=3a2a459207&e=ce8108b558> 

News from the Perkins Archives

New tools, new resources and more digital! 

The Perkins eNewsletter is an update on our activities, including the release of new collections, digital exhibits, blog entries, and other happenings in the Archives. 

Please visit us at  <http://perkinsarchives.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e6c5162e8795bc5c4f5319809&id=b55b1361a2&e=ce8108b558> www.perkinsarchives.org for more information.

Perkins Museum Website Relaunch

 <http://perkinsarchives.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e6c5162e8795bc5c4f5319809&id=cf49844a80&e=ce8108b558> Home page of the new Perkins Museum Site, featuring two children touching a tactile map, Sections on Laura Bridgman, Anne Sullivan, and Helen Keller, and A Books for the Blind exhibit call out.

The Perkins Museum website has been re-designed and relaunched and can now be found at  <http://perkinsarchives.us6.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=e6c5162e8795bc5c4f5319809&id=a49af566f1&e=ce8108b558> Perkins.org/history.

New content includes an expanded "People in Perkins History" section, many new photographs, and includes links to primary sources and digital resources organized by topic.

In addition to this the site has incorporated a feed of the  <http://perkinsarchives.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e6c5162e8795bc5c4f5319809&id=7762f6bb09&e=ce8108b558> Archives Blog and  <http://perkinsarchives.us6.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=e6c5162e8795bc5c4f5319809&id=08e8fd1cd2&e=ce8108b558> Perkins History Stories <http://perkinsarchives.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e6c5162e8795bc5c4f5319809&id=50605263f4&e=ce8108b558> .

We have an Internet Archive Table Top Scribe!

 Two tables support the TT Scribe machine and a computer used to operate it. The machine features a cradle for holding books, several lights and three cameras frame the top of the machine. <https://gallery.mailchimp.com/e6c5162e8795bc5c4f5319809/images/b9e991d5-30a6-4c4b-bf9e-5b0d4af58102.jpg> 

This fall we ordered our very own table  <http://perkinsarchives.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e6c5162e8795bc5c4f5319809&id=b4224eed81&e=ce8108b558> Top Scribe System from the Internet Archive. This machine will allow us to digitize text in house, quickly and easily. The rapid scanning of bound volumes will help us make even more resources available online. Once captured, the books upload to the  <http://perkinsarchives.us6.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=e6c5162e8795bc5c4f5319809&id=b1f22ab962&e=ce8108b558> Internet Archive platform where they receive the same backend services we received when outsourcing the digitization, including OCR. 

New Digital Collections

 <http://perkinsarchives.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e6c5162e8795bc5c4f5319809&id=cdd82196d9&e=ce8108b558> Book for the Blind published in Amsterdam in 1808 titled "Leesboek, Van Blinde Kinderen" or "Reading Book for Blind Children". 

 <http://perkinsarchives.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e6c5162e8795bc5c4f5319809&id=52b2c6ca1c&e=ce8108b558> Early Embossed Books

A collection of three early embossed Books from 1808, 1811, and circa 1817. The earliest two, printed in Amsterdam and Vienna, are likely the first books for the blind printed outside of the books printed by the Institute for Blind Youth in Paris by Valentin Haüy beginning in 1786.  

 <http://perkinsarchives.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e6c5162e8795bc5c4f5319809&id=13c935c778&e=ce8108b558> Perkins Globe being transported back to Perkins School for the Blind in Watertown, MA after restoration at Schiff Architectural Detail and Daedalus, Inc. in 2004

 <http://perkinsarchives.us6.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=e6c5162e8795bc5c4f5319809&id=efcee80918&e=ce8108b558> Perkins Globe: Historic Images, Restoration, and Paint Analysis

The Perkins Globe, made by Steven Preston Ruggles in 1837, is probably the first terrestrial globe made for use by the blind in America. This collection includes historic images of the globe, a 1982 report on the analysis of paint samples, a full report on a comprehensive renovation to it 2004, and images of the globe moving in and out of a moving truck for renovation in 2004. 

 <http://perkinsarchives.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e6c5162e8795bc5c4f5319809&id=d3149c70d7&e=ce8108b558> Copy of letter from Michael Anagnos, Director of the Perkins Institution, to John Albert Macy, 

 <http://perkinsarchives.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e6c5162e8795bc5c4f5319809&id=9123c5994f&e=ce8108b558> A <http://perkinsarchives.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e6c5162e8795bc5c4f5319809&id=f464beb9c1&e=ce8108b558> nagnos-Macy Correspondence

Copy of two letter from Michael Anagnos, Director of the Perkins Institution, to John Albert Macy, regarding the trial held at Perkins regarding Helen Keller and The Frost King plagiarism incident. The letters are dated November 13th and 19th, 1902. At this time Macy was writing a supplementary section on Helen Keller's life and education for her book The Story of My Life published in 1903. 

 <http://perkinsarchives.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e6c5162e8795bc5c4f5319809&id=391da0e03b&e=ce8108b558> Fish, Pictures for the Blind from a collection of pictures for the blind (tactile graphics with braille and print), created by M. Kunz, Director of the Illzach School near Mulhouse, France.

 <http://perkinsarchives.us6.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=e6c5162e8795bc5c4f5319809&id=322dbb5952&e=ce8108b558> Kunz Collection of Tactile Maps and Graphics

Collection of tactile maps and tactile graphics, namely natural history specimens, made for use by the blind. Created by Martin Kunz, Director of the Illzach School near Mulhouse, France. Dates range from 1884-1902.  

 <http://perkinsarchives.us6.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=e6c5162e8795bc5c4f5319809&id=3fa86e713e&e=ce8108b558> Photograph of Frank C. Bryan, Manager, at stereotypemaker, run by electric power, taken in 1909. Workshop for the Blind, Perkins Institution, South Boston. The machine is operated with foot pedals and a wide belt connects a wheel on the machine to the ceiling.

 <http://perkinsarchives.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e6c5162e8795bc5c4f5319809&id=b565f352e4&e=ce8108b558> H <http://perkinsarchives.us6.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=e6c5162e8795bc5c4f5319809&id=020c46c455&e=ce8108b558> owe Press and Workshop

Collection of photographs of the Workshop for the Blind, Howe Memorial Press, the creation and electrification of the Perkins Brailler, and other industrial work. Included in the collection is this photograph of Frank C. Bryan, Manager, at work on a stereotypemaker, run by electric power, in 1909. 

 <http://perkinsarchives.us6.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=e6c5162e8795bc5c4f5319809&id=dea606bd6d&e=ce8108b558> Book for the Blind published in Amsterdam in 1808 titled "Leesboek, Van Blinde Kinderen" or "Reading Book for Blind Children". 

 <http://perkinsarchives.us6.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=e6c5162e8795bc5c4f5319809&id=f763c745f1&e=ce8108b558> Alexander Mell Correspondence

Letter from Alexander Mell, Director of the Imperial Royal Institute for the Education of the Blind, Vienna to Edward E. Allen, Director of Perkins School for the Blind about the first printed books for the blind, and the sale of posters, prints, and books in 1921. Mell also describes how Haüy’s book was flattened during the binding process. 

Over 800 Embossed Books are Boxed!

 Before and after examples- all 848 boxes now on the shelves of the archives <https://gallery.mailchimp.com/e6c5162e8795bc5c4f5319809/images/29bd2953-4d12-4cad-a0ec-3110c09c1764.jpg> 

In our last newsletter we talked about our intent to box many of our oldest and most fragile embossed books. All 848 boxes are now on the shelves with book titles, dates, formats and location of publication written on the box spine- complete inventory to follow.

Latest Processed Collections

 <http://perkinsarchives.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e6c5162e8795bc5c4f5319809&id=908529e4f7&e=ce8108b558>  <http://perkinsarchives.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e6c5162e8795bc5c4f5319809&id=908529e4f7&e=ce8108b558> Portrait of Helen Keller in 1909, the year she began donating her books to Perkins, with two images of a sample braille volume. <http://perkinsarchives.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e6c5162e8795bc5c4f5319809&id=908529e4f7&e=ce8108b558> 

 <http://perkinsarchives.us6.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=e6c5162e8795bc5c4f5319809&id=32d8e93897&e=ce8108b558> 

 <http://perkinsarchives.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e6c5162e8795bc5c4f5319809&id=eda9548aef&e=ce8108b558> Outreach and Perkins International Photographs Collection, 1960s-2007

 <http://perkinsarchives.us6.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=e6c5162e8795bc5c4f5319809&id=a850b87ca8&e=ce8108b558> Helen Keller Embossed Book Collection, 1881-1905

 <http://perkinsarchives.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e6c5162e8795bc5c4f5319809&id=244a8b7bc3&e=ce8108b558> Arthur W. Evans Correspondence and Other Material Collection (Jimmy Osborn and Camp Allen materials- new donation), 1946-1948

Latest Blog Posts

Congratulations

 <http://perkinsarchives.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e6c5162e8795bc5c4f5319809&id=11950ae48f&e=ce8108b558> A Glimpse of Education for the Blind and Deafblind in Austria Around 1930

 <http://perkinsarchives.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e6c5162e8795bc5c4f5319809&id=32b159c661&e=ce8108b558> Archives Management Internship: Processing the Helen Keller Embossed Book Collection 

A big congratulations to our very own Molly Stothert-Maurer  who became a member of the Digital Commonwealth Board of Directors this July.  

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