Figure 1.--This photograph shows two boys in 1934 being treated at the famous Perkins School for the Blind in Watertown, Mass., a suburb of Boston. The two boys are deaf and blind and are shown "listening" by means of a Phipps Unit for bone conduction of sound. The older boy on the left, Earl Martin, wears a dark double-breasted knicker suit with striped knee socks and a white shirt and tie. The younger boy, Leonard Dowdy, appears to be wearing button-on shorts with a short-sleeved open-collared shirt with some sort of neckerchief or tie around his neck. He wears tan long stockings.

This photograph shows two boys in 1934 being treated at the famous Perkins School for the Blind in Watertown, Mass., a suburb of Boston. The two boys are deaf and blind and are shown "listening" by means of a Phipps Unit for bone conduction of sound. The older boy on the left, Earl Martin, wears a dark double-breasted knicker suit with striped knee socks and a white shirt and tie. He would seem to be about 10 or 11 years of age. The younger boy, Leonard Dowdy, about 7 or 8 years old, appears to be wearing button-on shorts with a short-sleeved open-collared shirt with some sort of neckerchief or tie around his neck. He wears tan long stockings with hose supporters the fasteners of which can be seen at the hem of his shorts. The young adults, Clifton Sears and Winthrop Chapman, who seem to be in their 20s, are probably also blind-deaf students at the school, which treated people of all ages. The men might possibly be teachers or technicians employed by the school to assist with testing and therapy. But I think they are adult students.

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