Laura Bridgman Artifacts, "Deafblind Education" Exhibit, Perkins Museum
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Title
Laura Bridgman Artifacts, "Deafblind Education" Exhibit, Perkins Museum
Date
2013
Description
Museum case on "Deafblind Education" in the Perkins Museum with Laura Bridgman photographs and artifacts including her tinted glasses, needle case, thimble, napkin ring, and a piece of unfinished lace.
Laura Bridgman Artifacts: 7. Unfinished knitted lace on Laura HBridgman's original needles (hatpins). Date unknown. 8. Needle and thimble case, gold thimble inscribed, "To Laura Bridgman- J. Banvard, April 27, 1855." Made of wood grown on Abbotsford, Sir Walter Scott's estate in Scotland. 9. Laura Bridgman's dark eye glasses. South Boston, ca. 1870. 10. Sterling silver napkin ring with LDB monogram, attributed to Laura Bridgman, ca. 1880. Gift of Mrs. Laura Bridgman. Dallas, Texas, 2004. 11. Plaster copy of a bust of Laura Bridgman sculpted by Sophia Peabody. South Boston, 1841
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
References
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/xd07m709r
Date
2013
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 Artifacts, "Deafblind Education" Exhibit, Perkins Museum,” Center for Knit and Crochet Digital Repository, accessed October 1, 2026, https://digital.centerforknitandcrochet.org/items/show/7947.
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