Archive

Running a Marathon: Moving a Museum Collection

With the Dot Experience at APH officially breaking ground, we have been incredibly busy behind the scenes preparing for construction...

Finding Sadie

“The blind veterans here in the Helen Keller class are able, thru talking books, to obliterate the tedious hospital hours...

The Kentucky School for the Blind Alumni Association Archive

In 2020, the Kentucky School for the Blind [KSB] Alumni Association signed an agreement that gave the care of the...

Photographs as Time Capsules of the Past

The holiday season is decidedly upon us, and with workplace parties on the calendar I was curious what holiday-related items...

Technological Relevance in an Ever-changing World

Everything old is new again. Or so the adage goes. But there is an underlying truth to it, even if...

Online Archives in a Digitized World

Have you ever done research in an archive? Maybe for a school project, or just researching a topic of personal...

Unsolved Mysteries in Historical Research

You know those history research shows that trace your family’s history? I love shows like that, and they’re a great...

An Amazing Discovery: Laura Bridgman

While working my way through a series in the American Foundation for the Blind collection called “Education, Rehab, and Welfare,”...

Series 3: Unprocessed

When the AFB Helen Keller Archive arrived at APH, we found a few boxes labeled “Series 3: Unprocessed.” These unprocessed...

Dr. Joseph Himes: A Black History Month Profile

In my work cataloging the materials in the AFB Helen Keller Archive, I’ve come across hundreds of folders with the...

Preserving a Panorama: A Conservation Journey

Have you ever stored something rolled up? Maybe that poster you bought at a concert years ago that you tucked...

The History of Puzzle Maps

When I first started working in the museum at APH in 2005, I’d often commandeer my young son and nephews...

Helen Keller and the Stoney Nakoda Nation

In September of 2021, the AFB Helen Keller Archive received a handful of Helen Keller artifacts that had been discovered...

A Journey from Braille to Print: Rediscovered 19th Century French Organ Music

Chipping away at the backlog of unprocessed collections (there’s always a backlog in archives), I came across four spiral-bound volumes...

The Carrier’s Address

I stumbled across something interesting while cataloging the archives of the Kentucky School for the Blind Alumni Association yesterday. Historians...