Samuel Gridley Howe Library Collection. August 26, 2011. Description by Aaron Wirth, PhD candidate in history. Brandeis University’s Robert D. Farber University Archives and Special Collections ...

RARELY, if ever, has any Boston doctor been farther afield than Samuel Gridley Howe. This is not to speak, of course, in great circle miles, but the mountains of Greece in 1825 were far away in tim ...

In the 1830s, Samuel Gridley Howe, an educator of the blind and visually impaired, developed an embossed alphabet known as Boston Line Type. This atlas, printed in 1837, ...

In 1846, the Boston physician Samuel Gridley Howe, already renowned as the founding director of what would become the Perkins School for the Blind, set off across Massachusetts on a mission. The ...

SAMUEL GRIDLEY HOWE. Share full article. Jan. 10, 1876. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from January 10, 1876, Page 1 Buy Reprints. View on timesmachine.

In 1843, at the age of 24, the petite, red-headed woman stepped off the conservative path her father had prepared for her and married Samuel Gridley Howe, stunningly handsome and 18 years her senior.

Howe’s domineering husband—Samuel Gridley Howe, renowned for working miracles with Laura Bridgman at the Perkins Institution for the Blind—did everything he could to impede his wife’s ...

Her husband, Samuel Gridley Howe, was a celebrated physician, who thought that his wife should bear his children and focus her life upon his concerns. One day, Julia watched a review of Union ...

Brandeis University’s Robert D. Farber University Archives and Special Collections Department houses a wide array of material from the Walter E. Fernald Developmental Center’s Samuel Gridley Howe ...