Digital Commonwealth — Perkins School for the Blind
Samuel Gridley Howe
Stuart, Jane, 1812-1888 · [ca. 1750–1920]
Black and white reproduction of a color painting of Samuel Gridley Howe as a young man. He has on a suit jacket, high collar, wears sideburns and has rosy cheeks. Samuel Gridley Howe was a physician, war hero, founding director of the Perkins School for the Blind, the first person to teach language to a student with deafblindness (Laura Bridgman), and was married to Julia Ward Howe (author of The Battle Hymn of the Republic).
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