Accession Number: 2002.98
Scope & Content: Booklet provides a history of the school and includes photos of the buildings and of superintendents Warring Wilkinson and Richard S. French.
Creator: California School for the Blind. Historical Committee.
Interview Date: / /
Credit Line: Gift of Stephen A. Goodman, 2002.98
Administrative History: A school for blind and deaf students of California was established as a private endeavor in 1860 and opened in San Francisco. It later became a state-run school. The California Institution for the Education of the Deaf and Dumb, and the Blind, as it was called, moved into new buildings located north of Oakland in 1869. The area would later become Berkeley. In 1906, the school's name was changed to the California Institution for the Deaf and Blind; in 1914, it became the California School for the Deaf and Blind. The deaf and blind schools were legally separated in 1921. The California School for the Blind relocated to Fremont, California in 1980.
Subjects: Schools for the blind and visually impaired Education -- California
Rights: Contact museum staff regarding reproduction.