Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind annual and biennial reports

Report, Annual

Accession Number: AnnRep1.1

Scope & Content: Holdings: 1861-1863, 1869-1880, 1890-1896, 1900-1906, 1910/1914, 1948/1949, 1950/1951, 1968/1969, 1986/1987. Printed reports document the school's management, building, and student activities. Names of school's officers and staff are included. Financial receipts and disbursements are listed. A catalog of students appears in reports up through 1910; graduating students in 1948/1949-1969 reports. An engraving of the school building appears in the 1st annual report and in several subsequent reports. A black-and-white photo illustration of the school building first appears in the biennial report of 1892. Title varies: Annual Report of the Board of Trustees and Officers of the Alabama Institution, for the Education of the Deaf and Dumb (1861). Annual Report of the Board of Commissioners and Officers of the Alabama Institution for the Education of the Deaf, Dumb, and Blind (1869). Annual Reports of the Alabama Institute for the Deaf, and the Alabama Academy for the Blind (1890). Biennial Report of the Board of Trustees of the Alabama Institute for the Deaf, in charge of the Alabama Institute for the Deaf, Alabama Academy for the Blind and the Alabama School for Negro Deaf Mutes and Blind (1892). Biennial Report of the Board of Trustees of the Alabama School for the Deaf, in charge of the Alabama School for the Deaf, Alabama School for the Blind, and the Alabama School for the Negro Deaf and Blind (1902). Alabama Institute of Deaf and Blind Annual Report (1948/1949). The President's Annual Report (1986/1987).

Creator: Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind

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Administrative History: The Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind was founded in Talladega in 1858 and was originally called the Alabama Institution for the Education of the Deaf and Dumb. A department for blind students opened in 1867, and the name of the school later changed to the Alabama Institute for the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind. In 1887, the school for the blind became a separate entity called The Alabama Academy for the Blind (later called the Alabama School for the Blind), sharing the same board of trustees and principal as the Alabama Institute for the Deaf (later called the Alabama School for the Deaf). In 1892, the Alabama School for Negro Deaf-Mutes & Blind (later called the Alabama School for Negro Deaf and Blind) opened on the campus, also sharing the same administrative staff, and continued until desegregation in 1968.

Subjects: Schools for the blind and visually impaired Schools for the deaf Education -- Alabama Annual reports

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