Papers, 1877-1887 (inclusive).

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Papers, 1877-1887 (inclusive).

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Collection contains six autograph letters by Bridgman; also article re: Bridgman and invitation to exhibition.

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Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏

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Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏

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Bridgman, Laura Dewey, 1829-1889

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Laura Dewey Lynn Bridgman (b. December 21, 1829, Hanover, New Hampshire-d. May 24, 1889, Boston, Massachusetts), known as the first deaf-blind American child to gain a significant education in the English language, fifty years before the more famous Helen Keller. Bridgman was left deaf-blind at the age of two after contracting scarlet fever. She was educated at the Perkins Institution for the Blind where, under the direction of Samuel Gridley Howe, she learned to read and communicate using Brail...

Perkins School for the Blind

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The New England Asylum for the Blind was incorporated in Massachusetts in 1829 (St 1828, c 111); and opened in Boston in 1832 as the New England Institution for the Education of the Blind. It was successively renamed the Perkins Institution and Massachusetts Asylum for the Blind in 1839, the Perkins Institution and Massachusetts School for the Blind in 1877, and the Perkins School for the Blind in 1955. The institution relocated in Watertown in 1912. Although not a state...