Accession Number: 2001.84
Scope & Content: A scrapbook of newspaper clippings, cards, poems, family photos, and mementos relating to the life of Eliska Coe, primarily her years as a student. She became blind as an infant and attended the Colorado School for the Deaf and the Blind, where she graduated in 1903. A newspaper clipping from the Colorado Springs Gazette (June 2, 1903) notes that Coe presented her essay "Wit and Humor" at the graduation ceremony. She appears in a photo of the graduating students that accompanies the article. Inserted loose into the scrapbook are six tactile maps, outlines made of small raised dots (possibly using a stylus). The maps include: two of Germany and one each of the British Isles, South America, North America, and Colorado, the latter showing boundaries of counties with the names handwritten in ink. The title of each map is embossed in New York point. There is also a letter embossed in New York point, written to Eliska Coe by friend Anna E. Kennedy to congratulate Coe on her graduation. Bound scrapbook has cloth-backed boards covered with a dark brown and white, textured plastic-like material. The front cover has a rectangular opening, measuring 8 1/8 x 4 5/8 in., that is filled with a raised, white plastic-like illustration of lilies attached to a backing of brown velvet. Around the opening is a decorative border of two solid gold lines with gold leaves and raised flowers. Paper appliques have been glued to several of the pages.
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Credit Line: Museum Purchase, 2001.84
Subjects: Blind children Scrapbooks Students