Digital Commonwealth — Perkins School for the Blind
Margaret McAvoy: An Extraordinary Blind Girl
1821
Portrait of Margaret McAvoy facing the viewer with eyes open. She wears an Empire-waist dress with ruffled collar and matching bonnet. McAvoy was a blind woman who purportedly could read regular printed text by feeling it with her fingers.
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