New England Institution for the Education of the Blind

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New England Institution for the Education of the Blind

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New England Institution for the Education of the Blind

New England Asylum for the Blind

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New England Asylum for the Blind

Institute for the Blind (Boston, Mass.)

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Institute for the Blind (Boston, Mass.)

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1833

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1847

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Originally incorporated in 1829 by Samuel Gridley Howe as the New England Asylum for the Blind, the school soon outgrew the Pleasant Street house of Howe's father, and opened in Boston in 1832 as the New England Institution for the Education of the Blind, the first residential school for the blind. The name was changed in 1839 to the Perkins Institution and Massachusetts Asylum for the Blind, to honor benefactor T.H. Perkins, and in 1955 became known as the Perkins School for the Blind. In the early days of the school, Howe ran a separate enterprise to publish books in raised print.

From the description of Concert by the pupils of the New England Institution for the Blind, 1835. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 182727815

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https://viaf.org/viaf/143166424

https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n87913821

https://id.loc.gov/authorities/n87913821

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Blind

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Massachusetts--Boston

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