Accession Number: AnnRep1.16
Scope & Content: Holdings: 1853-1886/1888, 1890/1892, 1913/1916, 1920/1922-1932/1934. Title varies: Annual Report of the Louisiana Institution for the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind (January 1855). Annual Report . . . Louisiana Institution for the Education of the Blind, and the Industrial Home for the Blind (1873). Report . . . of the Louisiana Institution for the Blind (1880/1881). Report of the Louisiana State School for the Blind (1913/1916). Biennial Report . . . of the Louisiana State School for the Blind (1922/1924). Printed reports document the school's management, building, and student activities. Reports include financial receipts and disbursements, list officers and staff, and some list students' names. The 1916 report (for years 1913-1916), the first issued since 1906, includes black-and-white photo illustrations, as do reports after 1924. A raised letter specimen embossed by students in the school's printing department, established in 1859, is inserted loose in the 1859 (January 1860) report. The Act of Incorporation is in the 1873 and several subsequent reports. 1878 and 1879 reports include tables with headings: Blind of Louisiana, United States Census 1870; List of Celebrated Blind Persons; Proportion of Blind to Entire Population [worldwide]; and Principle Occupations, which have been successfully followed by the blind.
Creator: Louisiana State School for the Blind
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Administrative History: In 1852, the state of Louisiana established the Louisiana Institution for the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind in Baton Rouge. In 1870, the blind department moved to another location in the city and, the following year, became a separately incorporated school. The Louisiana Institution for the Education of the Blind recombined with the school for the deaf in 1888. Then, in 1890, it was reorganized as a separate school and moved to its present site in 1898. In the 1920s, the state founded a school for African American blind children on the campus of Southern University. The Southern University School for the Blind and the Louisiana State School for the Blind merged in 1978, and the name changed to the Louisiana School for the Visually Impaired.
Subjects: Schools for the blind and visually impaired Education -- Louisiana Annual reports
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