Blind Collection (page 6)

Cat lets mouse out of trap
The cat lets the mouse out of the trap -- Mr and Mrs Mouse are reunited. Date: circa 1933

Regatta at Marlow for Blinded Soldiers & Sailors, WW1
Two photographs depicting a rowing at regatta at Marlow for blinded soldiers and sailors from St. Dunstans during the First World War

Sea Lamprey, Lampern, Planers Lamprey and Pride
Sea Lamprey (Petromyzon marinus), Lampern (Lampetra fluviatilis or European River Lamprey), Planers Lamprey (Petromyzon planeri), and Pride (Lampetra fluviatilis or Petromyzon branchialis)

Yorkshire School for the Blind, York - Gymnastics
The Senior class at the Yorkshire School for the Blind, York, give a display of their physical training prowess

Blind ex-soldiers at St Dunstans Hospital Making Mats. Date: circa 1920

Blind Asylum, Bristol
The Bristol Blind Asylum which in 1832 moved to castle-like premises Queens Road, Tyndalls Park, Bristol

The blind man of the Bridge of Arts, Paris.. Handcolored aquatint engraving after an illustration credited to Victor Auver from A Tour through Paris, William Sams, London, 1825

Lemming, hamster, songar rat, blind mole-rat, perfuming shrew (muskrat), and elephant shrew.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from Ebenezer Siblys Universal System of Natural History, 1794

Oldham Park, Oldham, Lancashire
Oldham Park, Oldham, near Chadderton, Lancashire, England. Showing Blind Joes monument Date: 1900s

Royal Midland Inst. for the Blind Stall - Derbs Agricultural
Royal Midland Institution for the Blind Stall - Derbyshire Agricultural Show, near Derby, Staffordshire, England. Showing Wicker Goods Made by the Blind Date: 1920s

Soldiers & sailors blinded in war learning useful trades
Patients at the Blind Soldiers and Sailors Hostel of St Dunstan in Regents Park being taught new skills to equip them for life

Clear Block Camp, Lake Webster, Massachusetts, USA
Building and railway track at Clear Block Camp, Lake Webster, Massachusetts, USA. The name of the lake in Nipmuc, an Algonquian language, is the longest place name in the USA

The Gift of Sight & Braille as only recreation of the blind
A picture drawn specially for The Sketch by Frank Reynolds, highlighting an appeal in 1914 to raise 30, 000 to complete the buildings at the Royal Institute for the Blind in Great Portland Street

Favourite Sayings - The blind need no mirrors
Black and white lantern slide of a young man holding a mirror in front of a blind old man who is holding a cup and the leash of a small dog which sits between them

Blind Frenchwoman helped from home by British soldiers, WW1
British soldiers helping a blind Frenchwoman out of her house in the village of Masnieres as it was being heavily shelled by the Germans. Date: 1918

Learning farming at St Dunstan s
Two blind servicemen are taught how to put up a wire fence, during their training in farming skills, part of the rehabilitation offered at St Dunstans, Regents Park, London

Learning carpentry at St Dunstan s
A blind ex-serviceman learns carpentry at St Dunstans hostel in Regents Park, London. The hostel was established to rehabilitate soldiers and sailors blinded during the Great War. Date: 1915

Blind servicemen at St Dunstan s
Two blind officers, escorted by one of the nursing staff, take the air at St Dunstans hostel in Regents Park, London.The hostel was established to rehabilitate soldiers

Blind soldier at St Dunstan s
A blind ex-serviceman learns how to make bags at St Dunstans, Regents Park, London. The hostel was established to rehabilitate soldiers and sailors blinded during the Great War. Date: 1915

Suffragette Women Writers Suffrage League. The W.W.S.L was founded in 1908 by Cicely Hamilton and Bessie Hatton. This shows a banner designed for the league in 1909 by William Henry Margetson

Blinded soldier starring in a revue, WW1
Blinded soldiers from St. Dunstans taking part in a revue called The Dispensary Boys, in a scene called the Beauty Chorus. St

St Dunstans Hostel advertisement, WW1
A full page of The Tatler devoted to reporting on the work of St. Dunstans Hostel for Blinded Soldiers and Sailors in Regents Park, London

St Dunstans periscope made by blind patients
A St. Dunstans periscope made by blind patients of St. Dunstans Hospital. Retaining original paper cover printed St. Dunstans Periscope. Made by a war-blinded man. Firearms & Equipment

John Grooms Home at Sekforde Street, London
John Groom and the Afflicted, Blind and Crippled Workers at the home he founded for their care on Sekforde Street, Clerkenwell. Date: Date unknown

Bradford workhouse concert programme
The programme for a choral concert given in 1904 to inmates at the Bradford Union workhouse in West Yorkshire. The concert was given by the choir of the Bradford Institution for the Blind. Date: 1904

Bradford workhouse concert programme cover
The cover of the programme for a choral concert given in 1904 to inmates at the Bradford Union workhouse in West Yorkshire

Henry Fawcett (1833 1884) British economist, politician & Cambridge professor, accidentally blinded. Husband of Millicent Garrett Fawcatt

Attack and Defence in the air
Various arcs of fire by which German machines are protected and the blind spots which results from interfence of the structure of the aeroplane

Blind soldiers at St. Dunstans, WW1
A cheerful group of blind soldiers pictured at St. Dunstans hostel, Regents Park, London. St. Dunstan s, near Hanover Gate in the park, set up by Mr. C

Blinded French soldier learning to write, WW1
At the Rue Boileau, a poilu, blinded in the war, learns to write. 1915

Lily Elsie with blinded soldiers at St. Dunstan s
Actress Lily Elsie (Mrs Ian Bullough) pictured at St. Dunstans Hostel for Blinded Soldiers at Regents Park in 1917. In the left hand picture she prepares to go afloat as cox with a blind rowing crew

Blind Japanese musicans, 1864
Three blind Japanese musicians. One plays a koto, the other a samisen. Date: 1864

Three Blind Mice by George Studdy
Three little mice, somewhat the worse for wear having polished off a glass of wine at an empty restaurant table. Date: 1915

Workroom at Grooms Crippleage and Flower Girls Mission
Blind, Maimed and Crippled Girls at making artificial flowers at John Grooms Crippleage and Flower Girls Mission. Groom, a London engraver and evangelical preacher

Cartoon, The Cult of Queer Pets, showing people in the street, taking their various odd pets for a walk. A lady had recently been seen in Bond Street, London, with a small pig on a lead. Date: 1914

Harlequin and Columbine outside a shop
Harlequin illustration, showing Harlequin, Columbine and another woman outside a shop. Date: 1923

The innocent games 1914
Women playing blind mans buff outside in the garden. Date: 1914

Lady giving beggar money
A well-dressed lady giving a blind beggar with an artificial leg sitting against a wall with a poster of St. Dunstans, the charity set up to aid servicemen blinded in the war. Date: 1930s

The Royal Visit to Ireland, 1900 - blind women cheer
Inmates of the National Institute and Molyneux Asylum for the blind cheering Queen Victoria as she passed towards the city gates, as part of her royal visit to Ireland. Date: April 1900

John Metcalf
JOHN METCALF, known as Blind Jack of Knaresborough - soldier, athlete and roadmaker of Yorkshire, despite being unsighted... Date: 1717 - 1810

David Johnston, Church
DAVID JOHNSTON Scottish churchman, minister of North Leith; founder of the Blind Asylum, Edinburgh. Date: 1734 - 1824

Valentine Rene Hauy
VALENTIN HAUY French educator, inventor of a script for the blind, with behind him his brother Rene Just Hauy, mineralogist. Date: 1745 - 1822

Janet Hamilton, Poet
JANET HAMILTON (nee Thomson) Scottish poet, who taught herself to read at age 5, to write at age 54 : she became blind in 1866 despite bearing ten children. Date: 1795 - 1873

Blind Beggar on a London Street, with a sign explaining his situation around his neck and a small scrawny pet dog at his side

Memories - WW1 Blinded soldier - RNIB postcard
Memories - WW1 Blinded soldier looking back on his past life and the activities he is unable to continue to pursue due to his lost sight - Fund-raising postcard for the Home Teaching Branch of

Pretty Japanese girl and roll blind Date: circa 1912

Blind Russian Beggar and ragged child Date: 1901

Blind Musician, Bermuda with three young children persussionists accompanying his banjo playing. All are wearing remarkable costumes (which must have been seriously hot!). Date: circa 1909

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