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8 pages : black and white illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm

ENSA drama festival : special charity performance in aid of St. Dunstan's / ENSA Publicity Department.

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.

1 folded sheet (4 pages) : color illustrations, portraits ; 14 x 44 cm (folded to14 x 22 cm)

Reunion of the blinded soldiers, sailors & airmen of St. Dunstan's residing in London, Essex, Hertfordshire, Surrey, Kent, Berkshire, Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire held at the Royal Albert Hall, London, on the 3rd June, 1935, on the occasion of thier majesties' silver jubilee.

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.

Fund raising envelope that would have been distributed to homes in a house to house collection then picked up later. The image is a monochrome version of the one used on a 1945 boxing tournament programme of "Three happy men of St. Dunstan's" walking along with arms linked, all of them smoking cigarettes.

St. Dunstan's needs money : and it always will until the last of our 2000 blinded ex-soldiers has passed on : wars end, wounds heal, but blindness remains / St. Dunstan's.

Box file containing items of ephemera in acid free sleeves. Includes: St. Dunstan's Hostel (in Regent's Park for soldiers & sailors blinded in the war), postcards showing blinded and recovering WW1 soldiers RNIB : "Blinded for you" (2 versions), "Blinded", "You've not said how I've growed, Daddy!", "The child he will never see!", War blinded telephonists, helpline (2012), Guide Dogs for the Blind Association, Oxfordshire Association for the Blind (2004), Queen Alexandra College carbon fibre canes (2014?), 'Affected by RP? We can help' (RP Fighting Blindness : 2015?)

General Collections Ephemera Collection

Blindness ephemera. Box 2.

Leaflet asking for employers to take on blinded ex-servicemen as telephone operators, trained by St. Dunstan's. There are 7 testimonials and a man is shown at a switchboard.

1 folded sheet : illustrations ; 23 cm folded to 13 cm

War blinded telephonists : an appeal to employers / St. Dunstan's.

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.

Colour postcard showing the from the painting by R. Caton Woodville depicting a British soldier leading another whose eyes are heavily bandaged across the mud of a WW1 battlefield, barbed wire in the foreground, corpses lie behind them and wounded soldiers are being lifted and carried away on stretchers in the background. A white cloth with splashes of blood is caught on the wire. The reverse recommends massage as a suitable profession for the blind, mentions St. Dunstan's and asks for donations.

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ENSA drama festival : special charity performance in aid of St. Dunstan's / ENSA Publicity Department.

What they see / National Institute for the Blind.

St. Dunstan's needs money : and it always will until the last of our 2000 blinded ex-soldiers has passed on : wars end, wounds heal, but blindness remains / St. Dunstan's.

Blindness ephemera. Box 2.

War blinded telephonists : an appeal to employers / St. Dunstan's.

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

"When night sets in the sun is down" : from the painting by R. Caton Woodville : post card / National Institute for the Blind.

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ENSA drama festival : special charity performance in aid of St. Dunstan's / ENSA Publicity Department.

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St. Dunstan's needs money : and it always will until the last of our 2000 blinded ex-soldiers has passed on : wars end, wounds heal, but blindness remains / St. Dunstan's.

Blindness ephemera. Box 2.

War blinded telephonists : an appeal to employers / St. Dunstan's.

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

"When night sets in the sun is down" : from the painting by R. Caton Woodville : post card / National Institute for the Blind.

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