Concert by the pupils of the New England Institution for the Blind, 1835.

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Concert by the pupils of the New England Institution for the Blind, 1835.

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This single-page document consists of a concert program dated 7 May 1835 at the New England Institution for the Blind. It provides an example of the use of raised alphabet lettering to teach blind students to read.

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New England Institution for the Education of the Blind

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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 e...