Accession Number: AnnRep1.27
Scope & Content: Holdings: 1833 (An Account), 1836-1925, 1928, 1930-1931, 1933-1937, 1939-1941, 1946, 1957, 1961-1966, 1968-1970, 1972, 1985, 1986. Printed reports document the school's management, building, and student activities. Included with the reports is the 1833 "An Account of the New-York Institution for the Blind." Reports list officers, managers, superintendents/principals of the school, and include financial reports. Many include lists of students and illustrations. A photo (of the school building) first appears in the report for 1906. Also found are: embossed specimens of raised type and tactile illustrations (1833 Account, and 1837 report); Superintendent William Wait's "A System of Writing and Printing Music for the Use of the Blind," and "The New York System of Tangible Point Writing and Printing for the Use of the Blind" (1881); a list of publications available in the New York Point dot code (1893-1916); illustrations of the New York Point Kleidograph and Stereograph (1894-1899); an "Anniversary Exercises" program (1918, inserted loose); a separately printed 8-page letter of Superintendent T. Golden Cooper, regarding suggestions for a new school building (1860); an "extended account" of the life of William Wait (1916); a tipped-in, fold-out photo illustration of the school buildings/campus (1925), and another of the "Delegates and Guests of the World Conference on Work for the Blind at the Institute, April 14, 1931" (1933). Title varies: Annual Report of the Managers of the New-York Institution for the Blind . . . (1836). Annual Report of the Managers of the New York Institution for the Blind . . . (1893). Year-Book of the New York Institute for the Education of the Blind . . . (1916). The New York Institute for the Education of the Blind. Annual Report 1985. (from cover). The New York Institute for Special Education. Annual Report 1985-86 (from cover).
Creator: New York Institute for Special Education
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Administrative History: The New York Institute for Special Education was founded in 1831 and originally called the New York Institution for the Blind. The private, non-profit school was first located in Manhattan and moved, in 1924, to a new campus located on Pelham Parkway in the Bronx. The name of the school changed in 1912 to New York Institute for the Education of the Blind, and again in 1986 to New York Institute for Special Education to reflect the variety of services offered.
Subjects: Schools for the blind and visually impaired Education -- New York Annual reports
Rights: Contact museum staff regarding reproduction of materials.