Sarah Fuller Foundation for Little Deaf Children records, 1888-1972.

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Sarah Fuller Foundation for Little Deaf Children records, 1888-1972.

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The collection consists of scattered documentation of the foundation and annual reports span only 1888 through 1903 (box 1, folders 2-3). Of special interest is a letter from Alexander Graham Bell regarding the idea of establishing a summer vacation school (box 2, folder 16). Also of interest is the section of James Ronald Morris's thesis regarding the foundation, which includes a listing of primary and secondary sources consulted (box 1, folder 8).

2 manuscript boxes.

Children's Hospital Boston Archives

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Sarah Fuller Foundation for Little Deaf Children

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The Sarah Fuller Home for Little Deaf Children was founded in 1888 by Louisa (Mrs. Francis) Brooks of West Medford, Mass. Named for a principal of the Horace Mann School for the Deaf, the home was established to provide two- to five-year-old children with oral instruction, although some were as old as six (see Annual Report, 1889). In 1925 the residential school closed and a program of home instruction was instituted. In 1957 the foundation became affiliated with The Children's Hospital Medical ...

Children's Hospital Boston. Hearing and Speech Clinic.

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Sarah Fuller Home for Little Deaf Children.

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Bell, Alexander Graham, 1847-1922

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Inventor and educator. From the description of Check, 1918 Feb. 11. (Historical Society of Washington, Dc). WorldCat record id: 70954428 Alexander Graham Bell, inventor and educator, and members of the related Bell, Fairchild, Grosvenor, and Hubbard families. From the description of Alexander Graham Bell family papers, 1834-1974. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70979893 Inventor Alexander Graham Bell became a member of the American Philsophical Society in...

Morris, James Ronald

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