Cabinet card, Perkins Institution and Massachusetts School for the Blind

Photograph, Cabinet

Accession Number: 2005.22

Description: Black-and-white photograph is mounted to a white card and shows the multistoried building, originally a hotel, that was used by the Perkins School for the Blind from 1839-1912. The school moved to its current Watertown campus in Boston in 1912. Printed information on the school is glued to the back of the card.

Medium: Card stock, paper

Print Size: 4.25 x 6.5 in.

Date: [pre-1913]

Photographer: [unknown]

History/Provenance: Museum purchased item through an internet auction.

Subjects: Blind children. Education. Photographs and Visually Impaired.