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1913, Models made by the blind children on visits to Sunderland Museum, in which they were allowed to touch the exhibits.The models were made 5 weeks later and made at Sunderland Council Blind School.
“To them, their fingers are eyes”
From 1913, John Alfred Charlton Deas, a former curator at Sunderland Museum, organised several handling sessions for the blind, first offering an invitation to the children from the Sunderland Council Blind School, to handle a few of the collections at Sunderland Museum, which was ‘eagerly accepted’.
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Happened on this little beauty as we were leaving the hotel in Sturbridge, Massachusetts. It lives in Connecticut but was on the way to New Hampshire to be restored. OK, it's not actually a 'beauty" just now. But wait a year!
It's a 1929 model.
Model: Saga Siamese
Photographer: Justin Bonaparte
Occaisonally I build in Lego. Here is my latest MOC . A friend bought me a "Les" minifig so I built him a nice lathe to work with
Organization: Tim Engle
Photography and Editing: Dirk Dreyer.
Hi-Res pictures and prints available at galleries.dreyerpictures.com