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91 photos and 25 illustrations tagged blind, from 16 members of Flickr Commons.

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• children
• blackandwhitephotograph
• newcastleupontyne
• see
• touch
• objects
• sunderland
• northeast
• adults
• johnalfredcharltondeas
• charltondeas
• handlingsessions
• sunderlandmuseum
• collections
• access
• curator
• tyneandwear
• museum
• twam
• tyneandweararchivesandmuseums
• oldphotographs
• oldphotos
• unusual
• sessions

Members using this tag

• North East Museums 42 photos & illustrations
• The Library of Congress 28 photos & illustrations
• National Library of Medicine 21 photos & illustrations
• British Library 8 photos & illustrations
• Mennonite Church USA Archives 4 photos & illustrations
• New York Public Library 2 photos & illustrations
• Smithsonian Institution 2 photos & illustrations
• George Eastman Museum 1 photo / illustration
• Texas State Archives 1 photo / illustration
• SMU Libraries Digital Collections 1 photo / illustration
• U.S. National Archives 1 photo / illustration
• Florida Memory 1 photo / illustration

Conversations

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Kath. McGirr, Deaf, Dumb & Blind. (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• pennylrichardsca (now at ipernity) said:

  Katherine "Katie" McGirr was about eight years old when she survived exposure during an 1888 blizzard, blind and deaf. Two years later she was admitted to the New York Institute for the Deaf. She's mentioned by name in Helen Keller's "The Story of My Life." In her 20s, she was considered to be able to read more different kinds of text for the blind than anyone else (braille, plus five other systems).

• Ryan (LOC P&P) said:

  Thanks pennylricharsca for this information about Katie McGirr. We'll fill in some of the information the next time we update.

Winifred Holt teaching checkers to blind officers (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• jamica1 said:

  For Winifred Holt en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winifred_Holt

• swanq said:

  Presumably this is in Paris. See neighboring photo taken at the Hotel du Phare, Paris
  

• Ryan (LOC P&P) said:

  Thank you jamica1 for your research, and thank you swanq, for making the connection between the two photographs. We'll add some information about Winifred Holt to the records the next time we update.

• B-59 said:

  See also comments under www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/14919734632/

Collection Models

from North East Museums

• Haunted Zoo said:

  This is so touching! Those little kids and their brilliant minds!