Accession Number: AnnRep1.20
Scope & Content: Holdings: 1863-1940. Printed reports document the school's management, building, and student activities. Reports list officers, staff, and students. Most include financial information. Some include black-and-white photo illustrations. Title varies: Annual Report . . . of the Minnesota Institution for the Education of the Deaf and Dumb, and the Blind (1863). Biennial Report . . . of the Minnesota Institute for Defective Children (1884/1886). Biennial Report . . . of the Minnesota Institute for Defectives (1888/1890). Biennial Report . . . of the Minnesota School for the Blind (1914/1916).
Creator: Minnesota School for the Blind
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Administrative History: The Minnesota state legislature established a school for the blind in 1864. Located in Faribault, the school was initially a department of the Minnesota Institution for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind and conducted its first class in 1866. In 1874, the school moved into a separate and newly constructed building of its own. By 1880, a department for feeble-minded children had been added to the Institution, which would become known as the Minnesota Institute for Defectives, with the three branches (the schools for the blind, the deaf, and the feeble-minded) each under the direction of its own superintendent. In 1902, the School for the Blind was named the Minnesota School for the Blind. From 1940 until 1985, it was known as the Minnesota Braille and Sight Saving School, and then the name changed to Minnesota State Academy for the Blind.
Subjects: Schools for the blind and visually impaired Education -- Minnesota Annual reports
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