<p>3 blind women examining articles worn by soldiers at Sunderland Museums, 1913.
</p><p>“To them, their fingers are eyes”
</p><p>From 1913, John Alfred Charlton Deas, a former curator at Sunderland Museum, organised several handling sessions for the blind, first offering an invitation to the children from the Sunderland Council Blind School, to handle a few of the collections at Sunderland Museum, which was ‘eagerly accepted’. 
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