Catch a Glimpse of our History of the Blind Holdings informing #CommonTouch opening April 4,  2016. Exhibition of VCP at LCP.

Laura Dewey Bridgman, ca. 1875. Black & white photograph. 5.75 x 4 in.

Picture shows an almost full-length portrait of Laura Bridgman, who is seated in a straight-backed wooden chair and angled slightly to the viewer’s left. Her hair is neatly parted down the middle and pulled back into a bun. There is a small smile on her otherwise placid face. She wears a dress with a high white collar, a dark lace shawl, and glasses with thin oval frames and semi-opaque lenses that mostly obscure her eyes. There is a thin ring band on the ring finger of her left hand. She sews a piece of knitted handiwork of alternating dark and light color. An open book rests on the table to the right of her, on the viewer’s left. Historical note: Bridgman was educated at the Perkins Institute for the Blind in Boston, Massachusetts. [End of description]

Common Touch has been supported by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage @PewCenterArts.