Podcast Episode 16 – Perkins School for the Blind – The Disability History Association

Jen Hale, archivist at the Perkins School for the Blind, discusses the school’s history and collections.

Episode Image: Exhibition of the Girls’ Manual Training Department, Perkins Institution. A group of girls sits in a circle knitting with two instructors helping. The girls wear dresses with lace collars, most have large bows in their hair, and all wear boots with laces. Source: Perkins Archives

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About Our Guest

Jen Hale is the Archivist for the Perkins School for the Blind. She has presented on the need for accessible photographs in digital collections and on legal and ethical considerations for digitization selection. Jen is a coauthor of Read by Touch: Stewarding the Reading and Writing Collection at the Perkins School for the Blind (Preservation, Digital Technology & Culture, April 2016). More information about the Perkins archives is available at https://www.perkins.org/archives .