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Helen Keller. A Second Laura Bridgman.
THE discovery of ways and means for rescuing persons afflicted with combined blindness and deafness from the dread dungeon of deathlike darkness and stillness, and for enabling them to come into communion with the outer world, is one of the grandest achievements of the nineteenth century....
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Title: Helen Keller. A Second Laura Bridgman.
From: Fifty-Sixth Annual Report Of The Perkins Institution And Massachusetts School For The Blind
Creator: Michael Anagnos (author)
Date: 1888
Format: Annual Report
Publisher: Rand Avery, & Company, Boston
Source: Perkins School for the Blind
Location: pp. 3-38
Keywords: Advocacy; Alabama; Animals; Anne Sullivan; Arthur H. Keller; Assistive Technology; Biography; Blind; Boston, MA; Braille; Children; Clothing; Communication; Correspondence; Deaf; Deaf-blind; Education; Educational Institutions; Embossed Print; Helen Keller; Identity; Institutions; Intelligence; Kate Keller; Laura Bridgman; Manual Alphabet; Massachusetts; Michael Anagnos; New Hampshire; Perkins School For The Blind; Poetry; Poverty; Samuel Gridley Howe; Schools; Sensory Disability; Social Welfare & Communities; Statistics; Tuscumbia, AL; Women & Gender
Topics: Institutions, Organizations & Corporations; Social Movements & Advocacy