Accession Number: AnnRep1.19
Scope & Content: Holdings: 1855/1856, 1858, 1867/1868-1888/1890, 1892/1894-1914/1916. Printed reports document the school's management, building, and student activities. Financial receipts and disbursements are listed. School officers, staff, and students are identified. Some reports include embossed specimens of braille and black-and-white photo illustrations of students, activities, the school building and rooms. Title varies: Biennial Report of the Trustees of the Michigan State Asylums for the Insane, and for the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind (1858). Biennial Report of the Board of Control of the Michigan School for the Blind (1902/1904). Additionally there is an 1880 "Report of the Commissioners of the Michigan School for the Blind," issued after the 1879 establishment of the school as a separate entity and prior to the school's first biennial report for school years ending 1880/1882, and an 1895 booklet "Rules and Regulations and Course of Study of the Michigan School for the Blind."
Creator: Michigan School for the Blind
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Administrative History: The Michigan School for the Blind (MSB) was established in 1879 and opened in 1880 in Lansing. Prior to 1879, blind students attended the Michigan Asylum for the Deaf Mutes and the Blind, later called the Michigan Institution for Educating the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind, which opened in Flint in 1854. MSB began focusing on outreach services only in 1993 and relocated to Flint in 1995, when it rejoined the Michigan School for the Deaf campus.
Subjects: Schools for the blind and visually impaired Education -- Michigan Annual reports
Rights: Contact museum staff regarding reproduction of materials.