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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

Here’s a selection of the conversations happening on these photos & illustrations:

Joseph Swan in his Laboratory

from North East Museums

• John keys said:

  Sound chap This Mr Swan...

• Timothy Jones said:

  "... Swan's demonstration of the light bulb at a lecture in Newcastle upon Tyne on 18 December 1878, before its invention by the American Thomas Edison ..." Now consider the idiocy of this. Swan demonstrated the light bulb, so he invented it. OK so the filament was a bit naff, and it was hard to achieve a good vacuum. Thomas Edison cannot have invented it AFTER Swan had already demonstrated it. Give Edison the credit for improving it, and creating a production line for its manufacture, but please, do not fall into that Transatlantic error of thinking Edison invented the light bulb. He did not.

• Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums said:

  Timothy Jones thanks. We've reworded the caption - we certainly don't believe it was Edison who invented the lightbulb!

"Titania" -- Overbrook [dancing] (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• 3 older comments, and then…
• bior said:

  Titania is a character in Midsummer Night's Dream.

• pennylrichardsca (now at ipernity) said:

  From a performance or pageant at Overbrook School for the Blind--presumably Titania is one of the Overbrook students.

• Art Siegel said:

  Here is another photo from the Midsummer Night's Dream production from The Commons, with "Titania" at center:
  
  A June 6, 1914 magazine used the Bain photo with this caption:
  A BLIND TITANIA QUEEN OF THE FAIRIES
  A Midsummer Night's Dream was given this year in the dramatic work of the Pennsylvania Institution for the Instruction of the Blind at Overbrook. The institution's report holds that the drama not only makes the institution known but clears up the old impression that it is a "blind asylum", while in realiity it is "a boarding school for boys and girls who happen to be blind." Most important of all it gives self confidence to blind pupils, helps them to get around, and oflen completely transforms those who are slow to hear and to observe.
  books.google.com/books?id=mI4qAAAAMAAJ&lpg=PR14&o...
  Another 1914 account, with yet another photo:
  books.google.com/books?id=FQUCAAAAYAAJ&dq=overbrook%2...

• Ryan (LOC P&P) said:

  Thanks to all of you for this great research. We'll add some of this information to the record the next time we update.

• Paul Jackson said:

  Thanks for adding these lovely images to the Dancing Outside group

Collection Models

from North East Museums

• Haunted Zoo said:

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