From the Archive: Gender Discrimination in the Creation of the Chemistry Code
When I was working with a small collection from APH’s Editorial Department, I came across correspondence from the late 1960s...
Read moreWhen I was working with a small collection from APH’s Editorial Department, I came across correspondence from the late 1960s...
Read moreMy calendar of significant 2020 dates that got overshadowed once the awful pandemic arrived, features a bold circle around the...
Read moreIt turns out blogging is not as easy as it appears. Not only do you need something fresh to say,...
Read moreA Museum guest blog by the Rev. Dr. Eugene A. Bourquin Sometimes our history – our heroes – slip...
Read moreIn my work cataloging the materials in the AFB Helen Keller Archive, I’ve come across hundreds of folders with the...
Read moreIn my work cataloging the materials in the AFB Helen Keller Archive, I’ve come across hundreds of folders with the...
Read moreWhen I first started working in the museum at APH in 2005, I’d often commandeer my young son and nephews...
Read moreThis month, on the museum’s Facebook and Twitter, we’re posting some photos and brief histories of blind detectives in fiction,...
Read moreI stumbled across something interesting while cataloging the archives of the Kentucky School for the Blind Alumni Association yesterday. Historians...
Read moreIn 1933, Miss Elizabeth Aitkin sent Helen Keller a handful of letters from her third and fourth grade classes in...
Read moreI like numbers. I think the way they dance around and make different, almost mystical combinations is cool. (Hang with...
Read moreFor a small exhibit this fall I researched two Hall of Fame recipients, Dr. Laurence C. Jones and Martha Morrow...
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 moreThere is a National Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day (January 31), a National Squirrel Appreciation Day (January 21), even a National...
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