Blind Collection

3 Wise Monkeys / Japanese
Hear no evil See no evil Speak no evil

Shirland Road, Maida Vale, London, with the Shirland Hotel (pub, now the Truscott Arms) on the left. Date: circa 1910

Simeon in the Temple, c. 1668-1669, by Rembrandt
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (1606-1669). Dutch painter. Simeon in the Temple, c.1668-1669. National Museum. Stockholm. Sweden

Helen Keller with her Great Dane
Helen Keller (1880-1968) born blind deaf mute. Thanks to her governess she overcame these handicaps, studied and created in 1921 the American Foundation for the Blind. Pictured here on the S.S

Jesus Heals Bartimaeus
Jesus heals blind Bartimaeus (Bartimeus)

BRAILLE, Louis (1809-1852). French pedagogue and inventor, creator of the writing system for the blind. Braille alphabet. Photography

BRAILLE, Louis (1809-1852). French pedagogue and inventor, creator of the writing system for the blind. Braille alphabet. Photography

Louis Braille / Thiriat
LOUIS BRAILLE French inventor of system of raised-point writing for the blind

Buddy, Seeing Eye
Buddy, guide dog of Morris Frank of Tennessee, the first dog trained in Switzerland by Mrs Dorothy Eustis, founder with Morris Frank, in 1927, of The Seeing Eye organisation

Guide Dog Crossing Road
Guide dog Buddy I with Morris Frank. Buddy was his third seeing eye dog. He was the first guide dog in the USA. Date: 1930s

Homer / Profile / Chapman
HOMER Blind Greek poet with the Iliad and the Odyssey below

Mrs Bryan Guinness (Diana Freeman Mitford) as Venus
Front cover photograph from The Sketch of the Hon. Mrs. Bryan Guinness, formerly the Hon. Diana Mitford, cast as the role of Venus at the Olympian Party

Universal Rescue Mission Caravan - E. H. Smith of Sheffield
Universal Rescue Mission Caravan and its owner, Mr E. H. Smith of Sheffield (on the right) - a local Christian Evangelical preacher, known as the Blind Evangelist

Dom Perignon, French monk known for wine-making
Dom Perignon (1638-1715), French Benedictine monk who is often (incorrectly) credited with the invention of sparkling champagne

D H Evans, Oxford Street, London
D H Evans department store, Oxford Street, London. circa 1910s

John Grooms Crippleage and Flower Girls Mission. Blind and Crippled Girls making artificial flowers. John Grooms vision for orphaned and disabled girls

Helen Keller reading Braille
Helen Adams Keller (1880-1968), American author and lecturer, blind, deaf and mute from the age of 19 months; sitting in a chair, reading a book

Milton Dictating
JOHN MILTON English writer, depicted after he had become blind, dictating to his daughter

Blind Mans Buff
Children playing Blind Mans Buff at a Christmas party

Walton Street Police Station, Knightsbridge, SW London. Date: circa 1900s

Appius Claudius the Censor (340-273 BC). Engraving. Colored
Appius Claudius the Censor (340-273 BC). Roman Censor. Engraving by Sabattini after a fresco by Cesare Maccari. The Iberian Illustration, 1898. Colored

John Lewis, Oxford Street, London
John Lewis department store, Oxford Street, London. Date: circa 1905

Oedipus and Antigone. Engraving
Oedipus. Hero of Greek mythology. The Delphic oracle predicted that he would kill his father and marry his mother. When they discover the truth

Tranquil Vale, Blackheath Village, south-east London
View down Tranquil Vale, Blackheath Village, south-east London. Date: circa 1900s

Elgin Avenue, West London, looking towards Edgware Road. Date: circa 1910

Upper part of Regent Street, London, looking towards Langham Place and All Souls Church. Date: circa 1910

The Blind Harper, Patrick Quin c.1745-1812 (c.1800). Unknown 19th century. Date: 1800 (circa)

Homer / Bust / Baiae
HOMER Blind Greek poet

Blind soldiers regatta at Putney, WW1
Blinded soldiers from St. Dunstans home for blinded sailor and soldiers in Regents Park, rowing in the boat they rowed to victory over the students of Westminster College

Chocolate box design, 18th century scenes
Chocolate box design, featuring various 18th century scenes, with people boating, on a swing, playing blind mans buff, and playing the guitar. Date: 20th century

Blind Man and Guide Dog
A German Shepherd leads a blind man in a street, steering him between a lamp- post and a carelessly parked bicycle. Date: 1935

Kenya - Masai man with extended earlobe ornament (weighed to increase the distension of the skin). Date: circa 1910s

Blind Italian soldier - WWI
Italian soldiers blinded during World War One - a poem explaining their fate. Date: circa 1918

Homer / Phillipoteaux
HOMER Blind Greek poet singing to sailors

French women visting the Cossack bivouac in Paris, 1814
Woman in fur-lined coat with fur muff visting the Tatar and Kalmyk Cossack bivouas in Paris after the fall of Napoleon. Cossack encampment on the Champs Elysees, 1814. Handcoloured lithograph by R.V

Sunshine Home for Blind Babies, Southerndown, Glamorgan
Two children and a woman in the garden of the Sunshine Home for Blind Babies, Southerndown, Glamorgan. Date: circa 1950

Nelson turns a blind eye - Battle of Copenhagen
Admiral Lord Nelson ignoring the signal from Sir Hyde Parker to stop fighting. He is looking though his telescope with his blind eye (popularising the phrase to turn a blind eye )

An old woman holds out a cup to beg on a Venice bridge
An old woman holds out a cup to beg for money. She sits and half-lies on the stone steps of a bridge in Venice, Italy. People walk by Date: 2013

Blind ex servicemen learning anatomy and massage after WW1 Date: circa 1916

Servicemen blinded during WW1 learning to make baskets and nets - 1920s Date: circa 1916

Servicemen blinded during WW1 learning anatomy and massage - 1920s Date: circa 1916

Blind ex-servicemen learning to make nets and baskets
Blind ex servicemen learning to make nets and baskets after WW1 Date: circa 1916

A blind bible reader, Victorian period

Blind bible reader

WW1 - Battle of Albert - British troops, blinded by gas, helping each other to the dressing station at Croisilles, France - 21st August 1918

Children playing in China in the early 1900s

The Blind Beggar Bethnal Green London Victorian period

The Blind Beggar pub, Bethnal Green, London

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