Ray Charles Sunglasses
Rolling Stone magazine ranked Ray Charles as one of the ten greatest musical artists of all time. As a child, he attended the Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind where he learned to be a multi-instrument musician. A pioneer of soul music, Charles received many accolades for his work, including a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Ray Charles personally donated these sunglasses along with a signed case to the Museum of Florida History. The Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind in St. Augustine, Florida, graduated its first students on May 23, 1898. Ray Charles, who attended the school from 1937 to 1945, was its most famous student. (Ray Charles’s Calvin Klein Sunglasses, ca. 1995, Collection of the Museum of Florida History)
