Our goal is provide resources that are accessible to all
The following are links provided to resources that are in the process of being to be moved to this site. Legacy text resources will be located on the Internet Archive, which utilizes optical character recognition (OCR) and downloadable file formats, including Daisy, to provide access to users who are blind and visually impaired. We acknowledge that OCR is prone to errors, and cannot recognize graphics or handwritten text, thus creating barriers to some of these materials. It is our intention that by providing the materials as is, the resource is findable online to all while we work to get these materials on this site where OCR is cleaned up. It is our intention that by providing the materials as is, the resource is findable online to all while we move resources over. Learn more about Perkins Archives digitized text and how to request accessible resources on Perkins.org.
Our goal is provide resources that are accessible to all
The following are links provided to resources that are in the process of being to be moved to this site. Legacy text resources will be located on the Internet Archive, which utilizes optical character recognition (OCR) and downloadable file formats, including Daisy, to provide access to users who are blind and visually impaired. We acknowledge that OCR is prone to errors, and cannot recognize graphics or handwritten text, thus creating barriers to some of these materials. It is our intention that by providing the materials as is, the resource is findable online to all while we work to get these materials on this site where OCR is cleaned up. It is our intention that by providing the materials as is, the resource is findable online to all while we move resources over. Learn more about Perkins Archives digitized text and how to request accessible resources on Perkins.org.
The Halifax Collection
Collection of correspondence, reports, statistics, publications, and clippings related to the relief effort for those blinded by the disastrous explosion of a weapons ship off the coast of Halifax, Nova Scotia on December 6, 1917, which left between 500-600 people with eye injuries. Edward E. Allen, the third director of Perkins, was a member of the Red Cross Committee on Eye Victims of the Halifax Disaster. Allen also authored a paper titled “The Halifax Disaster of December 6, 1917 in its Relation To Blindness”, published by the American Association of Instructors of the Blind, 1918.
The Halifax Collection
Collection of correspondence, reports, statistics, publications, and clippings related to the relief effort for those blinded by the disastrous explosion of a weapons ship off the coast of Halifax, Nova Scotia on December 6, 1917, which left between 500-600 people with eye injuries. Edward E. Allen, the third director of Perkins, was a member of the Red Cross Committee on Eye Victims of the Halifax Disaster. Allen also authored a paper titled “The Halifax Disaster of December 6, 1917 in its Relation To Blindness”, published by the American Association of Instructors of the Blind, 1918.