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Highlights training at the Pennsylvania Institution for the Instruction of the Blind in Overbrook. Portrays students playing baseball, doing track athletics, wrestling, and dancing. Shows instruction in poultry farming. Also depicts blind people sewing, playing chess, throwing pottery, modelling...
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1937-1942
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Highlights training at the Pennsylvania Institution for the Instruction of the Blind in Overbrook. Portrays students playing baseball, doing track athletics, wrestling, and dancing. Shows instruction in poultry farming. Also depicts blind people sewing, playing chess, throwing pottery, modelling fashions, piano tuning and at graduation. One item is a view of men making mops at the Pennsylvania Working Home for Blind Men. These subject entries for the Philadelphia Record newspaper's photo morgue are primarily for Places (buildings, parks, streets, etc.), Things (Bicycles, Bison, Blind Persons [just sampling the B's]), Events (Democratic National Convention 1936, Flourtown Fair, Harvest Week) and Social Constructs (Home Economics, City Planning, Eating & Drinking, etc.). Each of these subjects became a MARC record which included a call number. In the case of these records, the call numbers are the actual folder numbers for the materials referenced. Therefore, these subject headings are really also an index for this section of the Philadelphia Record newspaper's photograph morgue. [The name section of the Philadelphia Record photo morgue represents individuals, A-Z, and |
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Part of the Philadelphia Record Photograph Collection; for general information, see collection record. |
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53 photoprints : silver gelatin |