Accession Number: AnnRep1.21
Scope & Content: Holdings: 1850/1851 (Jan. 1852), 1866, 1868/1869, 1873-1874, 1876, 1882/1883, 1884/1885, 1888/1889, 1892/1893, 1894/1895, 1927/1929, 1951/1953-1959/1961, 1965/1967. Printed reports and 1 mimeographed report (1965/1967) document the school's management, building, and student activities. Most include a list of school officers, staff and students, and of financial expenditures and/or reimbursements. Black-and-white photo illustrations in 1953/1955-1959/1962. Title varies: Biennial Report of the Mississippi Institution for the Instruction of the Blind (1852). Annual Report of the . . . Asylum for the Blind (1876). Biennial Report of the . . . Institute for the Blind (1894/1895). Biennial Report of the . . . Mississippi School for the Blind (1927/1929).
Creator: Mississippi School for the Blind
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Administrative History: The Mississippi School for the Blind was established in 1848 by the state legislature of Mississippi and was originally called the Institute for the Blind. The school opened in Jackson at North Jefferson Street and remained there until 1882, with the exception of the 1864-1865 school session when the school temporarily located to Monticello due to the Civil War. In 1882, the school moved to a new building on State Street and remained there until 1951, when it moved to a new campus at Eastover Drive, where it is still located today. Blind African-American students were taught separately up through the mid-1970s, first at the Piney Woods School (a private school for African-American students that established a department for the blind in 1929), and then at the state's newly-opened Negro School for the Blind, located on Capers Street, where the students were transferred in January 1951.
Subjects: Schools for the blind and visually impaired Education -- Mississippi Annual reports
Rights: Contact museum staff regarding reproduction of materials.