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Concert programme for a fund-raising concert in 1921. Printed in black and red on white paper.

Programme of evening concert given in aid of St. Dunstan's Hostel for soldiers and sailors blinded in the war... : by blind musicians attached to the National Institute for the Blind... and organised by Lady Pearson, D.B.E. : The Assembly Hall, Framlingham, Monday August 15th, 1921 / National Institute for the Blind.

Programme of evening concert given in aid of St. Dunstan's Hostel for soldiers and sailors blinded in the war... : by blind musicians attached to the National Institute for the Blind... and organised by Lady Pearson, D.B.E. : Victoria Hall, Town Hall, Ealing, Monday January 31st, 1921 / National Institute for the Blind.

Folded leaflet asking for donations to set up 6 residential homes for young blind children ("babies") around Great Britain where they can learn to read Braille and Moon and massage as a potential career. A Home Teaching branch gives instruction in people's own homes and homes are available for ex service soldiers and sailors (St. Dunstan's). The 6 illustrations show the children playing, being bathed by nurses, having dinner, on a country hillside picking buttercups and a map of Britain showing where the projected homes are going to be. Sir Arthur Pearson is named as President and Treasurer.

1 folded sheet (12 pages) : color illustrations ; 14 cm

What they see / National Institute for the Blind.

Colour postcard (one of a series) which explains the rehabiliation work of St. Dunstan's and asks for contributions. This one shows a blind man, a bandage over his eyes sitting in a green canvas deck chair, his left arm round a collie dog, a walking stick in his right, with an army officer's cap on the floor next to him.

"Pals" : from the painting by Geo. Soper / National Institute for the Blind.

Sheet of three designs of advertising 'stamps' or stickers intended to be stuck on envelopes, thereby promoting awareness of St. Dunstan's homes for rehabilitation of armed forces personnel who have lost their sight in the service of their country. The sheet may have been sold to raise funds for the organization. This one is incomplete and only has 16 stamps. The three designs show one of a knight in armour on horseback, riding through woodland with a banner (on which St. Dunstan's is written) in his left hand, a second one of a victorious knight in armour (St. George?) standing over the body of a fallen dragon, raising his sword in his right hand and a banner in his left on which St. Dunstan's is written and the third of a mounted knight on top of a hill with mountains behind, holding the same banner. All are printed in dark blue on white paper.

Their sight for us, our help for them : St. Dunstan's : [sheet of stamps].

How to write arithmetic and algebra by means of the Joint Type Method / by John R. Emblen ; and approved by The College of Teachers for the Blind.

Colour postcard (one of a series) which explains the rehabiliation work of St. Dunstan's and asks for contributions. This one shows a soldier, newly blinded, on the battlefields of the first World War about to stumble into a trench with explosions and men throwing grenades behind him.

Blindness ephemera. Box 2.

"Blinded for you!" : from the painting by R. Caton Woodville / National Institute for the Blind.

1 poster : 8 black and white illustrations ; 76 cm

Geranium Day Tuesday May 11th, 1926 / Greater London Fund for the Blind conducted by the National Institute for the Blind.

1 unnumbered page, 41 leaves of braille ; 27 cm

Standard English braille : grades I. and II. / revised and edited jointly by the British National Uniform Type Committee and the American Committee on Grade II. representing the American Association of Instructors of the Blind, the American Association of Workers for the Blind, and the American Foundation for the Blind.

Leaflet asking for donations to set up facilities at the newly opened (19 March 1914) offices at 206 Great Portland Street where the National Institute for the Blind can produce braille books for the blind at much less than they cost generally then. Arthur Pearson is named as Treasurer. The painting is by Victor Prout.

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What they see / National Institute for the Blind.

"Pals" : from the painting by Geo. Soper / National Institute for the Blind.

Their sight for us, our help for them : St. Dunstan's : [sheet of stamps].

How to write arithmetic and algebra by means of the Joint Type Method / by John R. Emblen ; and approved by The College of Teachers for the Blind.

"Blinded for you!" : from the painting by R. Caton Woodville / National Institute for the Blind.

Geranium Day Tuesday May 11th, 1926 / Greater London Fund for the Blind conducted by the National Institute for the Blind.

Which book will you buy for the blind man? / C. Arthur Pearson.

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Their sight for us, our help for them : St. Dunstan's : [sheet of stamps].

How to write arithmetic and algebra by means of the Joint Type Method / by John R. Emblen ; and approved by The College of Teachers for the Blind.

"Blinded for you!" : from the painting by R. Caton Woodville / National Institute for the Blind.

Geranium Day Tuesday May 11th, 1926 / Greater London Fund for the Blind conducted by the National Institute for the Blind.

Which book will you buy for the blind man? / C. Arthur Pearson.

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