The Blind Detective in Popular Culture
This month, on the museum’s Facebook and Twitter, we’re posting some photos and brief histories of blind detectives in fiction,...
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The Carrier’s Address
I stumbled across something interesting while cataloging the archives of the Kentucky School for the Blind Alumni Association yesterday. Historians...
Read moreYou Must Remember This: Research in the APH archives
In my previous position at a university archive, I worked closely with researchers. My colleagues and I helped these researchers...
Read moreChristmas Letters to Helen
In 1933, Miss Elizabeth Aitkin sent Helen Keller a handful of letters from her third and fourth grade classes in...
Read moreLessons in Labels
In my nearly 20-year career in the museum field, I have been a part of an exhibit team, helped locate...
Read morePiney Woods Country Life School
For a small exhibit this fall I researched two Hall of Fame recipients, Dr. Laurence C. Jones and Martha Morrow...
Read moreThe Cleveland Guardians and the Helen Keller Archives
I was born in Indianapolis and have always been a Cleveland fan, just like my grandfather before me. I could...
Read moreA Lot of Dots
Photos above from Museum Archives: Hall braillewriter 1892; APH employees typing braille printing plates with stereograph machines, c. 1945; detail...
Read moreA Barrel of Documents
My journey of discovery started when I found two folders in the American Foundation for the Blind Archive folders, both...
Read moreHellen Keller, My Religion, and Lillian Gish
In My Religion, published in 1927, Helen Keller spelled out her religious beliefs to the world. Helen was an ardent...
Read moreNational Museum Education Associates Appreciation Day
There is a National Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day (January 31), a National Squirrel Appreciation Day (January 21), even a National...
Read moreHow the Helen Keller Archive Began
When I started working in the AFB (American Foundation for the Blind) Helen Keller Archive at APH in October of...
Read moreWe Are Open
I’ve been pretty excited this week. It’s been almost sixteen months since we had a visitor in the museum, but...
Read moreThe Chair Went Out the Window
Museum objects and their stories are codependent. The artifact is the real deal. After all, it was there when history...
Read moreThe Teacher as North Star
May is Teacher Appreciation Month in the U.S., but here in the museum at the American Printing House for the...
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