Manual Training, Girls' Department, Perkins Institution, South Boston

Identifier

http://dp.la/api/items/67ce616387f200f37608208726c23a37

Title

Manual Training, Girls' Department, Perkins Institution, South Boston

Date

1900

Description

Miss Frances Langworthy's girls' sloyd classroom filled with upper school girls sitting in front of sewing machines. Edith Thomas, a student with deafblindness, is at the back left. The girls wear long dresses with high collars and some have white aprons on. One wall is covered with glass cabinets.
Samuel P. Hayes Research Library, Perkins School for the Blind, Watertown, MA

Subject

Blind
Special education
Manual training
People with disabilities
Perkins School for the Blind

Source

Digital Commonwealth

Relation

http://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/kh04dx013/thumbnail

Type

image

References

http://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/kh04dx013

Citation

“Manual Training, Girls' Department, Perkins Institution, South Boston,” Center for Knit and Crochet Digital Repository, accessed October 1, 2026, https://digital.centerforknitandcrochet.org/items/show/7964.

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