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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…

These engravings are from an 1819 essay by the director of Paris' institute for the blind. They depict the punches and matrices used to print a twenty-five letter alphabet that was discernible by touch—the two sides of the "u" were separated to…

Not unlike letterpress cases for the sighted, these cases for the blind were organized according to letter, case (upper or lower), signs, accented letters, figures, etc. They were set at a forty-five degree angle so that the letters would not move…

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…

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…