Accession Number: AnnRep1.17.1
Scope & Content: Holdings: 1858-1919/1923, 1926/1928-1936/1938, 1940/1942-1986/1987. Printed reports document the school's management, building, and student activities. Officers, staff, students, financial receipts and disbursements are listed. Some include black-and-white photo illustrations. Fiscal year varies; reports up to 1881 were presented in January for school year ending the previous December. (See separate catalog record for reports of the Maryland School for the Colored Blind and Deaf.) Title varies: Report of . . . the Maryland Institution for the Instruction of the Blind (January 1858). Report of the . . . Maryland School for the Blind (1886). Biennial Report of the . . . Maryland School for the Blind (1915/1917). Maryland School for the Blind Annual Report (1981/1982).
Creator: Maryland School for the Blind
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Administrative History: The Maryland School for the Blind, located in Baltimore, was established as a private, state-aided school in 1853, and was originally called the Maryland Institution for the Instruction of the Blind. The school's first superintendent, David E. Loughery, was a graduate of the Pennsylvania Institution for the Instruction of the Blind. In April 1868, students were moved to a new campus located on North Avenue. In 1885, the school name changed to Maryland School for the Blind. In 1872, the Maryland School for the Colored Blind and Deaf opened on South Broadway to serve African American students. The schools shared the same superintendent. In 1907, the Maryland School for the Blind moved to a new site located on Taylor Avenue, the present-day location of the school. During the 1954-1955 school year, the Maryland School for the Blind began desegregation of its classes. End-of-year exercises held for African-American blind students in June 1956 "marked the closing of the Colored Department as such" (Biennial Report, July 1, 1955-July 1, 1957), and that same year deaf students of the Maryland School for the Colored Blind and Deaf moved to the Maryland School for the Deaf, in Frederick.
Subjects: Schools for the blind and visually impaired Education -- Maryland Annual reports
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