Accession Number: AnnRep1.17.2
Scope & Content: Holdings: 1873-1890/1891, 1892/1893, 1894/1895, 1897/1898-1916/1919. Printed reports document the management, building, and student activities. Reports list officers, staff, and students; financial receipts and disbursements; and some include black-and-white photo illustrations. Title varies: Annual Report of the Maryland School for the Colored Blind and Deaf-mutes (1885/1886). Annual Report of the Maryland School for the Colored Blind and Deaf (1888/1889). Biennial Report . . . of the Department for Colored Blind and Deaf of the Maryland School for the Blind (1909/1911).
Creator: Maryland School for the Colored Blind and Deaf
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Administrative History: In 1872, the Maryland School for the Colored Blind and Deaf opened on South Broadway in Baltimore to serve African American students. The school shared the same superintendent as the Maryland School for the Blind (then known as the Maryland Institution for the Instruction of the Blind). The school would move to a site on Saratoga Avenue and then to a site south of Taylor Avenue. End-of-year exercises held for African-American blind students in June 1956 "marked the closing of the Colored Department as such" (Biennial Report of the Maryland School for the Blind, 1955/1957). 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 African American students Annual reports
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