Accession Number: 2007.33.1.258-263
Description: Six (6) BW snapshots of student Frances Wright practicing cane travel on the campus of the Maryland School for the Blind (MSB) outside Baltimore, MD; edges of prints are scalloped. Wright was the first civilian student trained in orientation and mobility by Richard Hoover following Hoover's discharge from the U.S. Army Medical Corps in 1946. At the time, Hoover was a first-year medical student at Johns Hopkins, but living at MSB in Baltimore.
Print Size: 4.125 x 3"
Date: 1947
History/Provenance: These photos appeared on page 30 of the February 1947 Outlook for the Blind, along with an article by Wright describing the training, pp. 37-39.
Credit Line: Gift of Association for Education and Rehabilitation of the Blind and Visually Impaired
Subjects: Orientation & mobility Residential facilities Schools for the blind and visually impaired