Kindergarten and primary school for the blind
Subtitle: a second appeal for its foundation and endowment
By: by M. Anagnos
Contributors: Poulsson, Emilie, 1853-1939
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood
Publisher: Franklin Press; Rand, Avery & Company
Published: 1884
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 48
Subjects: Blind; Education; Kindergarten; Perkins Institution and Massachusetts School for the Blind. Kindergarten; Perkins Institution and Massachusetts School for the Blind
Description: Opens with facsimile letter insert from Laura Bridgman to the people of Boston asking for the support for the foundation and endowment of a separate kindergarten for blind children.  Outlines the need for instruction and training for blind children between the ages for four and nine in the New England states.  Two excepts from the Fifty-second Annual Report of the Trustees supporting the need and value of kindergarten instruction, "The Blind Children's Kindergarten" by Emilie Poulsson and a list of contributors with amount to the kindergarten fund.
Notes: Cover title.

"The blind children's kindergarten" by Emilie Poulsson (pages 29-44).

Facsimile of an appeal by Laura Bridgman on leaf affixed to page 3.

Reproduction of the original from the Teachers College, Milbank Memorial Library, Columbia University.