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In Kindergarten and Primary School for the Blind: A Second Appeal for Its Foundation and Endowment (1884), Michael Anagnos wrote about students’ tactile activities at a school for the blind in New England. These activities were deeply informed by the…

Every Thursday, the children had cubes that could be arranged into simple sculptures. Inventively recreating spaces they knew, they would “see” the forms with their fingers and craft the furniture of the gymnasium and schoolroom. They also told…

In this story, a Scottish shepherd named Sandie Leslie raises his daughter Elsie alone. The girl falls blind in an accident when the tree she was playing in is struck by lightning. Elsie gradually adjusts to her blindness and learns to speed away…

This book's frontispiece depicts smiling children guiding blind Leonard, taller than the rest and wearing a hat, to sit in their teacher's chair. Leonard then tells of how he became blind with great embellishment and a strangely adult attitude of…

Frances Browne (1816-1879) was a writer and poet from Donegal, Ireland. At the age of 18 months, she contracted smallpox and became blind—which is striking given the amount of visual imagery she includes in her writing. Her brothers and sisters read…

Illustrator Katharine Pyle (1863-1938) was the sister of lauded artist Howard Pyle. She studied at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women and the New York Art Students’ League. The Counterpane Fairy was the first success of her career, in which…