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

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From: Perkins Archives [mailto:Molly.Stothert-Maurer=Perkins.org at mail96.atl161.mcsv.net] On Behalf Of Perkins Archives
Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2016 1:13 PM
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Subject: The Latest from the Archives!

Perkins Archives eNewsletter, May 2016 

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Perkins School for the Blind Archives
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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 posts, and other happenings in the Archives. 

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A Big Thank You!

 <http://perkinsarchives.us6.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=e6c5162e8795bc5c4f5319809&id=46939e1d93&e=ce8108b558>  <http://perkinsarchives.us6.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=e6c5162e8795bc5c4f5319809&id=46939e1d93&e=ce8108b558> Portrait of Sue and Larry Melander <http://perkinsarchives.us6.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=e6c5162e8795bc5c4f5319809&id=46939e1d93&e=ce8108b558> 

Perkins Archives volunteers Larry and Sue Melander have spent the last four years transcribing hand-written indexes of names and page numbers found inside Perkins incoming bound correspondence. Dating from 1828-1910 this is no small feat. Their hard work and dedication has made the digitized versions on the Internet Archive searchable. An invaluable resource, these volumes include letters from parents, other institutions for the blind, and important figures, including Charles Dickens. More information about this project, including an interview with Larry and Sue Melander is available at  <http://perkinsarchives.us6.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=e6c5162e8795bc5c4f5319809&id=4e5fac6b0b&e=ce8108b558> perkins.org/stories/news/weve-got-mail-digitized.

New Digital Collections

 <http://perkinsarchives.us6.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=e6c5162e8795bc5c4f5319809&id=b3a83d0858&e=ce8108b558> Front and back of a t-shirt entry. Includes the tower and "150 years old"

 <http://perkinsarchives.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e6c5162e8795bc5c4f5319809&id=98ef9ccbed&e=ce8108b558> Sesquicentennial T-Shirt Competition

A collection of original drawings and artwork submitted by students and staff for a T-shirt competition to celebrate the 150th Anniversary of Perkins School for the Blind. 

 <http://perkinsarchives.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e6c5162e8795bc5c4f5319809&id=48ecd1627b&e=ce8108b558> Robert Smithdas conversing with an unidentified woman.

 <http://perkinsarchives.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e6c5162e8795bc5c4f5319809&id=e2cbf70ed3&e=ce8108b558> Robert Smithdas

Collection of black and white photographs primarily of the 1966 Perkins School for the Blind Graduation ceremony where Perkins Alumnus, Robert Smithdas gave the Commencement.Other photographs include Smithdas at his 1945 graduation and in Japan in 1967. 

 <http://perkinsarchives.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e6c5162e8795bc5c4f5319809&id=78f747fe49&e=ce8108b558> Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, circa 1865

 <http://perkinsarchives.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e6c5162e8795bc5c4f5319809&id=22bfedb67f&e=ce8108b558> Howe's Circle of 19th Century Acquaintances

Photographs and prints related to close friends, family and colleagues of Samuel Gridley Howe collected by his biographer James Trent and donated to Perkins in 2015.  

 <http://perkinsarchives.us6.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=e6c5162e8795bc5c4f5319809&id=08a6d54876&e=ce8108b558> Letter from Cora A. Newton to Nella Braddy Henney, May 23, 1927

 <http://perkinsarchives.us6.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=e6c5162e8795bc5c4f5319809&id=07b7aeae40&e=ce8108b558> Highlights of the Henney Papers

Correspondence to and from Nella Braddy Henney providing feedback and notes about her biography of Anne Sullivan Macy, Anne Sullivan Macy: The story behind Helen Keller (1933). The letters also address with Helen Keller’s adult life.  

Samuel Gridley Howe Biographer Donates Rearch Materials

 <http://perkinsarchives.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e6c5162e8795bc5c4f5319809&id=a155fe1ff4&e=ce8108b558> Molly and James happily looking at items from the collection that he has donated to the Perkins Archives.

Important research materials related to the life of Samuel Gridley Howe, Julia Ward Howe and their daughters was gifted to the Perkins School for the Blind Archives by Howe's biographer James Trent in December, 2015. The  <http://perkinsarchives.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e6c5162e8795bc5c4f5319809&id=51b7e19359&e=ce8108b558> collection guide is now available online and the materials are available to researchers by appointment. The collection includes an extensive library spanning Howe’s contemporaries and associates, the Perkins Institution and the field of blindness and deafblindness, and other materials related to 19th century Boston and educational and political reform movements. Of special note are original signed correspondence and a wonderful set of  <http://perkinsarchives.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e6c5162e8795bc5c4f5319809&id=7fb31a9089&e=ce8108b558> photographs including carte des visits and cabinet cards. Thanks professor Trent! 

Latest Processed Collections

 <http://perkinsarchives.us6.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=e6c5162e8795bc5c4f5319809&id=d6af781125&e=ce8108b558> Photograph of an Austrian student touching a tactile map of Graz, Austria, ca. 1940s from the Deafblind Clippings and other Material Collection

 <http://perkinsarchives.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e6c5162e8795bc5c4f5319809&id=828fa2e573&e=ce8108b558> Helen Keller Clippings and Poster Collection 

 <http://perkinsarchives.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e6c5162e8795bc5c4f5319809&id=af3e868866&e=ce8108b558> Deafblind Clippings and other Material Collection

 <http://perkinsarchives.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e6c5162e8795bc5c4f5319809&id=a7f1d52d87&e=ce8108b558> James Trent Collection

 <http://perkinsarchives.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e6c5162e8795bc5c4f5319809&id=43fc8f6917&e=ce8108b558> Perkins Sesquicentennial Celebration Collection 

Latest Blog Posts

 <http://perkinsarchives.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e6c5162e8795bc5c4f5319809&id=2a9d6635b2&e=ce8108b558> 1949 Letter Home from a Perkins Student

 <http://perkinsarchives.us6.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=e6c5162e8795bc5c4f5319809&id=3b966abd90&e=ce8108b558> Pilgrimage to Laura Bridgman's Childhood Home

 <http://perkinsarchives.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e6c5162e8795bc5c4f5319809&id=849ff33295&e=ce8108b558> 1890 Census, Perkins Institution

 <http://perkinsarchives.us6.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=e6c5162e8795bc5c4f5319809&id=a6380a72e3&e=ce8108b558> Anne Sullivan's Request on a Moonlit and Snowy Night

 <http://perkinsarchives.us6.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=e6c5162e8795bc5c4f5319809&id=79ce3ddd37&e=ce8108b558> Howe Family Collection now available to researchers

 <http://perkinsarchives.us6.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=e6c5162e8795bc5c4f5319809&id=559154e4e4&e=ce8108b558> Memphis Friends of the Library return 175-year-old books to Perkins

 <http://perkinsarchives.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e6c5162e8795bc5c4f5319809&id=17376dedef&e=ce8108b558> Helen Keller's Vaudeville Q and A

 <http://perkinsarchives.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e6c5162e8795bc5c4f5319809&id=db3708a55d&e=ce8108b558> Archives Internship: Highlights and Experience 

New Collections on the Internet Archive

 <http://perkinsarchives.us6.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=e6c5162e8795bc5c4f5319809&id=625eacc89a&e=ce8108b558> One page of images from the History of the Howe Press by Waterhouse, 1975

 <http://perkinsarchives.us6.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=e6c5162e8795bc5c4f5319809&id=962c7861b3&e=ce8108b558> Embossed Books, Music, Maps, Appliances and Tangible Apparatus for the Use of the Blind, by Howe Memorial Press, 1910

 <http://perkinsarchives.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e6c5162e8795bc5c4f5319809&id=9419a12954&e=ce8108b558> The Perkins School for the Blind by Edward E. Allen, 1924

 <http://perkinsarchives.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e6c5162e8795bc5c4f5319809&id=8c40c96688&e=ce8108b558> History of The Howe Press of Perkins School for the Blind by Edward J. Waterhouse, 1975

 <http://perkinsarchives.us6.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=e6c5162e8795bc5c4f5319809&id=e1437ab13c&e=ce8108b558> Howe Press Catalog by Perkins School for the Blind, 1976

 <http://perkinsarchives.us6.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=e6c5162e8795bc5c4f5319809&id=79c8952b7a&e=ce8108b558> Letter from Helen Keller to Mr. Anagnos, May 18, 1889.

 <http://perkinsarchives.us6.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=e6c5162e8795bc5c4f5319809&id=4bc24618a0&e=ce8108b558> Vol. 21: Perkins School for the Blind Correspondence, Received 1873-1874

 <http://perkinsarchives.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e6c5162e8795bc5c4f5319809&id=5a5a821f66&e=ce8108b558> Census of 1890, Perkins Institution and Massachusetts School for the Blind

 <http://perkinsarchives.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e6c5162e8795bc5c4f5319809&id=3b979238bb&e=ce8108b558> Helen Keller and Arthur Gillman Collection, 1887-1904

 <http://perkinsarchives.us6.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=e6c5162e8795bc5c4f5319809&id=9e4d666a49&e=ce8108b558> Nella Braddy Henney Digital Collection of Manuscripts, 1938-1962

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