Overview of Collections
The Perkins Archives include collections related to the history of the education of the blind and deafblind, institutional archives, and correspondence of significant figures in the school's history, such as Helen Keller, Annie Sullivan, and Samuel Gridley Howe. The collections are in a variety of formats, including original manuscripts, scrapbooks, clippings notebooks, photos, postcards, and reel-to-reel audio tapes.
Two images of deafblind students at Perkins. One of Tommy Stringer with a teacher and one of Willie Elizabeth Robin riding a sociable bicycle with an unidentified man.
Some collections are included in the catalog of the Samuel P. Hayes Research Library and can be searched here.
Links to Digital Collections
Perkins Archives Flickr Page
Perkins Internet Archive Page
Perkins Archives Pinterest Page
Partial List of Collections
Many of the archival collections are currently unprocessed, but access to those materials is allowed. The processed collections have a link to the finding aid.
- Michael Anagnos (Director from 1876-1906)
- Edward Ellis Allen (Director from 1907-1931)
- Gabriel Farrell (Director from 1931-1951)
- Edward J. Waterhouse (Director from 1951-1971)
Perkins Archives Flickr Page
Perkins Internet Archive Page
Perkins Archives Pinterest Page
Partial List of Collections
Many of the archival collections are currently unprocessed, but access to those materials is allowed. The processed collections have a link to the finding aid.
- Papers of Perkins Directors
- Michael Anagnos (Director from 1876-1906)
- Edward Ellis Allen (Director from 1907-1931)
- Gabriel Farrell (Director from 1931-1951)
- Edward J. Waterhouse (Director from 1951-1971)
- Julia Ward Howe Collection
- Laura Bridgman Collection
- The Blind in Art
- Nella Braddy Henney Collection
- Kindergarten for the Blind Collection, unprocessed
- Institutional Records (includes ledger books, departmental reports, curricular materials), unprocessed
- Perkins Bound Correspondence
- Eino Friberg Collection
- Sarah Lane Collection
- Photographs of Students with Deafblindness
- Perkins Postcards
- Helen Keller Photograph Collection
- Condolence Messages Sent to Helen Keller upon the Death of Anne Sullivan Macy
- Hayes-Binet and Perkins-Binet Tests of Intelligence for the Blind Collection
- Daredevil Comic Book Collection
- Student Concerts and other Audio Recordings
- Tactile Map and Atlas Collection
- Bettye Krolick International Music Braille Collection, unprocessed
- Sullivan/Keller/Anagnos Correspondence Collection (Access copies and surrogates)
- Teacher Journals of Laura Bridgman and other Deafblind Pupils
- Photographs in Archives
