Accession Number: AnnRep1.22
Scope & Content: Holdings: 1854-1856, 1859/1860, 1862 (brief department reports), 1863/1864-1865/1866, 1869/1870-1877/1878, 1881/1882-1883/1884, 1889/1890, 1893/1894-1899/1900, 1903/1904-1933/1934, 1937/1938, 1941/1942, 1962/1963. The 1962/1963 report is a two-page Director's Report for the annual period ending in May. Printed reports document the school's management, building, and student activities; include financial expenditures and reimbursements; list the trustees/officers, superintendent and, in some, the staff and students. There is a separate 1-page report of the Academic and Music Departments issued subsequent to a July 1862 meeting of the school's board of trustees, and a typewritten Director's Report for the annual period ending 1963. Also included in printed reports are: an embossed raised-letter specimen (1856); illustrations of the school building and floor plans (1871/1872); illustrations of the Hall Braille Writer and Hall Stereotype-Maker (1893/1894), and black-and-white photo illustrations (1893/1894 and later). Title varies: Annual Report of the Trustees of the Missouri Institution for the Education of the Blind (1854). Biennial Report . . . of the of the Missouri Institution for the Education of the Blind (1856). Biennial Report of the Missouri School for the Blind (1883/1884).
Creator: Missouri School for the Blind
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Administrative History: The Missouri School for the Blind was established as a private school in St. Louis in 1851 and became a state school in 1855. Originally called the Missouri Institution for the Education of the Blind, it was the first school in the United States to teach braille, when classes in reading and writing of the tactile code were introduced there during the 1860 school year.
Subjects: Schools for the blind and visually impaired Education -- Missouri Annual reports
Rights: Contact museum staff regarding reproduction of materials.