Blind athletes at Overbrook, Pa. (LOC)

Bain News Service,, publisher.

Blind athletes at Overbrook, Pa.

1911 April 27.

1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.

Notes:
 Title and date from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative.
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

Format: Glass negatives.

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain

Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.09148

Call Number: LC-B2- 2191-10

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    NailaJ, Zabowski, cattv, diastema, and 53 other people added this photo to their favorites.

  2. getthebubbles (60 months ago | reply)

    you misspelled "athlete" in the description...

  3. mkgphotoatgmail (60 months ago | reply)

    date is written on top as 4-27-11

  4. Mirandala (59 months ago | reply)

    The Overbrook School for the Blind still exists. I used to live down the street from it.

  5. kellydeanneswitzer (59 months ago | reply)

    Helen Keller? Did someone really tag this with Helen Keller?

    Jeez.

  6. drago. (58 months ago | reply)

    Wasn't it kind of dangerous to stack blind people into pyramids like that?

  7. susanann photos (48 months ago | reply)

    Ditto, j.drago

  8. Kilted Cowboy (46 months ago | reply)

    I believe that's the whole point, to remind people "blind" doesn't mean "incapable"

  9. Rob Ketcherside (42 months ago | reply)

    "President Taft, after the speechmaking was over, announced that he must go to keep another appointment, but could not bring himself to leave until he had seen some blind youngsters at their games. The boys of the Overbrook Institution, at Overbrook, Penn., came running to a cleared space before the President's chair, each boy in a gymnasium costume. They gave a gymnasium exhibition..."

    From the New York Times, April 27, 1911, page 3. A "Blind Workers' Exhibition" was held in New York at the Manhattan Opera House from April 26-28. In the evening of the 27th, after opening ceremonies, there was an athletic display. Winifred Holt was given a commemorative gold medal.

    Date matches that written on the photo, but the article's events actually transpired the previous evening, April 26th. Did the Overbrook boys jump back on a train for Pennsylvania the next day, or stay for the rest of the exhibition? Was this a photo Bain acquired of them training in Overbrook, and simply dated 4/27/1911 because that's when it was released to the photo service, in order to run with articles about the very popular and notable event? Was the photo actually taken on 4/27, perhaps in Central Park or some other grassy area of New York?

  10. PINTOR DE SOÑOS (36 months ago | reply)

    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called FLICKR PARA LA HISTORIA , and we'd love to have this added to the group!

  11. Elba Lacerda :D (28 months ago | reply)

    HA Ó A CARA DOS malandro ahah XD

  12. Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (25 months ago | reply)

    I started an entry in Wikipedia:
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overbrook_School_for_th e_Blind

  13. WZNC (23 months ago | reply)

    On your tags you have "dengerous" shouldn't that be "dangerous"?

  14. Sri Rakum School for the Blind (3 months ago | reply)

    When a person loses one sense their other senses becomes stronger. Capability depends on the persons will not on their physical ability.

  15. Wystan (6 weeks ago | reply)

    An Overbrook photo posted on LOC with this one:


    Another Overbrook photo, posted on LOC photostream in October, 2012:

    A female pupil at Overbrook:

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