About DisMuse’s masthead: It’s drawn from a late 1920s pamphlet produced by the Boston Industrial Aid Society. One of hundreds of charitable organizations operating in the city between 1900-1930, it focused on employment and training opportunities for ex-prisoners, disabled workers (men and women we think, but we’re not sure), poor widowers and widows.
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum depends on its collection to help us teach the lessons of the Holocaust and to stand as evidence of what happened for ages to come. Items that belonged to ...
Mike Hudson Mike Hudson has been the Director of the Museum of the American Printing House for the Blind since 2005. He has an M.A. in the History of Technology from the University of Delaware ...
By Meghan Rinn, Archivist & Cataloger Barnum Museum, Bridgeport, CT Why sign up to exhibit yourself? It’s a question worth pondering when talking about 19th-century performers with disabilities. Better pay than that offered by other ...
By Laurie Block, DHM Director Fuel Assistance. We aren’t quite sure which city this is, but the image here from 1910 is of a relief worker with a bucket of coal being passed from him ...
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