Laura Bridgman Centenary Ceremony
Identifier
http://dp.la/api/items/d0f24bf827c943f2e7831bc629d88b78
Title
Laura Bridgman Centenary Ceremony
Date
1937
Description
Thin strip of white lace made by Laura Bridgman. Roughly one inch wide and eight inches long with two accompanying handwritten notes on paper.
Note 1: When I went to see her. Lace knit by Miss Laura Bridgman, deaf, dumb, & blind. / Note 2: Lace Knit by Miss Laura Bridgman who was deaf, dumb & blind- born 1829-1889, in Hanover, N. H. / Dr. and Mrs. Greenwood. She is important as being the first blind deaf mute to be sucessfully educated. I much was learned from her case for the deaf, dumb & blind who came after her- Helen Keller ect. She was placed in the Perkins Institute, Boston & learned to read, write & sew so well that she became a teacher of sewing there. / Given to me by Mary [Fanar] ca 1914, who had gone to see her (Made from ca. 1860 or earlier)
Subject
Blind
Deafblind people
People with disabilities
Special education
Perkins School for the Blind
Bridgman, Laura Dewey 1829-1889
Perkins Institution and Massachusetts School for the Blind
Source
Digital Commonwealth
Relation
Type
image
References
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/xd07m4514
Date
1937
Source
Digital Commonwealth
Subject
Blind
Deafblind people
People with disabilities
Special education
Perkins School for the Blind
Bridgman, Laura Dewey 1829-1889
Perkins Institution and Massachusetts School for the Blind
Collection
Citation
“Laura Bridgman Centenary Ceremony,” Center for Knit and Crochet Digital Repository, accessed June 8, 2026, http://digital.centerforknitandcrochet.org/items/show/6968.
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