You Must Remember This: Research in the APH archives
In my previous position at a university archive, I worked closely with researchers. My colleagues and I helped these researchers...
Read moreIn my previous position at a university archive, I worked closely with researchers. My colleagues and I helped these researchers...
Read moreIn 1933, Miss Elizabeth Aitkin sent Helen Keller a handful of letters from her third and fourth grade classes in...
Read moreIn my nearly 20-year career in the museum field, I have been a part of an exhibit team, helped locate...
Read moreFor a small exhibit this fall I researched two Hall of Fame recipients, Dr. Laurence C. Jones and Martha Morrow...
Read moreI was born in Indianapolis and have always been a Cleveland fan, just like my grandfather before me. I could...
Read morePhotos above from Museum Archives: Hall braillewriter 1892; APH employees typing braille printing plates with stereograph machines, c. 1945; detail...
Read moreMy journey of discovery started when I found two folders in the American Foundation for the Blind Archive folders, both...
Read moreIn My Religion, published in 1927, Helen Keller spelled out her religious beliefs to the world. Helen was an ardent...
Read moreThere is a National Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day (January 31), a National Squirrel Appreciation Day (January 21), even a National...
Read moreWhen I started working in the AFB (American Foundation for the Blind) Helen Keller Archive at APH in October of...
Read moreI’ve been pretty excited this week. It’s been almost sixteen months since we had a visitor in the museum, but...
Read moreMuseum objects and their stories are codependent. The artifact is the real deal. After all, it was there when history...
Read moreMay is Teacher Appreciation Month in the U.S., but here in the museum at the American Printing House for the...
Read moreI’ve been a maphead all my life. When I was a kid, I drew maps in crayon of the various...
Read moreOn March 17, 2020, I was sitting at my desk at APH, mulling over what we should do about the...
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