[Collection of samples of raised-letter line types for printing for the blind.] [1830-1900]

Bunyan, John, 1628-1688

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Clergyman and author. From the description of Warrant of John Bunyan, 1674. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79452264 Epithet: of Egerton MS 2414 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000875.0x0002cf ...

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870

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Epithet: novelist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000429.0x0002c9 English writer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Office of All the Year Round, 26 Wellington Street, Strand, London, W.C., to Frederick Lehmann, 1863 Nov. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270125432 English novelist and publisher. From the description of ALS : Broadstairs, Kent, to Mr. Cullenford, 18...

Howe, S. G. (Samuel Gridley), 1801-1876

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Physician, reformer, and husband of Julia Ward Howe. From the description of Papers, 1868. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 46344998 Humanitarian crusader for many causes including Greek freedom, education for the disabled, prison reform, abolition, and black suffrage, Howe founded the Perkins School for the Blind and was the chairman of the Massachusetts Board of State Charities. When just out of the Harvard Medical School, he went to Greece as an army surgeon...

Perkins Institution and Massachusetts School for the Blind

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The New England Asylum for the Blind was incorporated in Massachusetts in 1829; it opened in Boston in 1832 as the New England Institution for the Blind. It was sucessively 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. From the description of Annual reports, 1851-1924. (Unknown). WorldCa...

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...

McClintock, Anna.

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Episcopal Church

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In 1982, the General Convention of the Church deleted the words "Protestant" and "in the United States of America" from the official title of the Church, making it the Episcopal Church. From the description of Records of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States of America, Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society, 1823-1975 (inclusive). (Yale University). WorldCat record id: 702152635 ...

Perkins Institution and Massachusetts Asylum for the Blind

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Crafts, William, 1787-1826

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South Carolina Federalist; attorney; author; newspaper editor; state legislator for St. Michael's and St. Philip's parishes, Charleston, S.C.; Harvard graduate, 1805 and 1808. From the description of William Crafts papers, 1806-1921; (bulk, 1806-1829. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 37112159 ...