Identifier: randmcnallycosha00chic2 (find matches)
Title: Rand, McNally & co.'s handy guide to Boston and environs ..
Year: 1906 (1900s)
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Publisher: Chicago and New York, Rand, McNally & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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as erected in 1866, andis well arranged, with large lecture halls and laboratories, cabinets ofbotanical and chemical drugs, and a great herbarium. The ShepardLibrary is a valuable collection of pharmaceutical, chemical, andbotanical works, the nucleus of which was the gift of Dr. A. B.Shepard. The college is under the direction of a board of trustees,and it has ten professors and instructors. The Perkins Institution and Massachusetts School for the Blindis on East Broadway, South Boston. It is a semi-public institution,organized, in 1S31, by the late Dr. Samuel G. Howe. Beginning withsix blind children as the nucleus of the school. Doctor Howe continuedas its director until his death, in 1877. Much of the success of theschool is ascribed to his devotion to it, and his eminent fitness for thework. He was succeeded by his son-in-law. Dr. Michael Anagnos,who was for many years his faithful co-worker, and who establishedthe kindergarten in the West Roxbury District (corner of Perkins and
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EDUCATIONAL J.VSTITUT/OXS, LIBRARIES, ETC. 113 Day streets). The pupils use, in reading, the system of raised lettersinvented by Doctor Howe. The library, contai:iing i i.ooo volumes inraised type, is the largest general library for the blind in the world.The asylum also possesses an interesting mtiseum and a complete gym-nasium. The institution is partly self-supiDorting, such of the pupilsas are able to pay maintaining themselves at a boarding-school. Allthe pupils are taught some useful trade or profession. Several of theStates pay for a large number of beneficiaries. In the arrangementof the establishment the family system is followed, and the girlsoccupy dwelling-houses by themselves, the sexes being separated.It is named the Perkins Institution, in honor of Col. Thomas W.Perkins, a Bostonian in his day distinguished for good deeds, andone of the most generous benefactors cf the institution. The Normal Art School is on the southeast corner of Exeter andNewbury streets. This schoo

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