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The Busiest House
Perhaps the busiest house connected with the Perkins Institution is its workshop for adults. Here twenty blind people assemble daily from their several boarding places to make and renovate mattresses, to recane chairs and to renovate feather pillows. This shop has been well conducted; it is a busy hive of industry, and general contentment prevails; some of its workers have been there for fifteen years....
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Title: The Busiest House
From: Seventy-Eighth Annual Report Of The Trustees Of The Perkins Institution And Massachusetts School For The Blind
Creator: n/a
Date: 1910
Format: Annual Report
Publisher: Wright & Potter, Boston
Source: American Printing House for the Blind, Inc., M. C. Migel Library
Location: vol.78, pp.19-20
Keywords: Blind; Boston, MA; Economics; Education; Educational Institutions; Employment; Government Agencies; Labor; Labor & Commerce; Massachusetts; Massachusetts Commission For The Blind; Perkins School For The Blind; Schools; Sensory Disability; Sheltered Workshop; Social Welfare & Communities; Social Welfare & Employment; Work
Topics: Institutions, Organizations & Corporations