Preserving a Panorama: A Conservation Journey
Have you ever stored something rolled up? Maybe that poster you bought at a concert years ago that you tucked...
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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 moreIn September of 2021, the AFB Helen Keller Archive received a handful of Helen Keller artifacts that had been discovered...
Read moreChipping away at the backlog of unprocessed collections (there’s always a backlog in archives), I came across four spiral-bound volumes...
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 my previous position at a university archive, I worked closely with researchers. My colleagues and I helped these researchers...
Read moreIn 1933, Miss Elizabeth Aitkin sent Helen Keller a handful of letters from her third and fourth grade classes in...
Read moreIn my nearly 20-year career in the museum field, I have been a part of an exhibit team, helped locate...
Read morePhoto shows the audience for the 1993 Keynote Address, held in the Brown Hotel in Louisville, KY. Maybe you...
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 moreI was born in Indianapolis and have always been a Cleveland fan, just like my grandfather before me. I could...
Read morePhotos above from Museum Archives: Hall braillewriter 1892; APH employees typing braille printing plates with stereograph machines, c. 1945; detail...
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