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Boys' caning shop, Main building, Perkins Institution, South Boston, Mass. Showing Mr. Thomas J. Carroll, instructor. The boys stand at tall work benches with chair seats to be caned clamped at chest height. They each have long lengths of caning materials that they weave across the wooden frames.
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Title: Boys Caning
Creator: n/a
Date: Circa 1904
Format: Photograph
Source: Perkins School for the Blind
Control no.: AG145-013-0127
Keywords: Blind; Boston, MA; Children; Economics; Education; Educational Institutions; Employment; Institutions; Labor; Massachusetts; Perkins School For The Blind; Schools; Sensory Disability; Sheltered Workshop; Social Welfare & Communities; Work
Topics: Institutions, Organizations & Corporations
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