Texas School for the Blind annual and biennial reports, and catalogues

Report, Annual

Accession Number: AnnRep1.39.1

Scope & Content: Holdings of reports: 1872 (Jan. 1873)-1892, 1894-1900, 1911-1912, 1914/1916-1916/1918, 1958 (Supt. rept.), 1961 (Supt. rept.), 1966/1967, 1968, 1969/1970, 1987/1988. Holdings of catalogues: 1894/1895-1895/1896, 1897/1898-1898/1899, 1903/1904-1906/1908, 1911/1912, 1914/1915, 1916/1917, 1918/1919, 1922/1923, 1924/1925, 1930/1931. Printed annual and biennial reports of the Texas School for the Blind documenting the school's management, building, and student activities from 1872 to 1988. The 1968 report is in print and thermoformed braille. Also in this collection are issues of the school's Catalogues list the courses of study, admission requirements, and general school information. Separately printed reports of the school for African American students are cataloged separately; see AnnRep1.39.2. An engraving of the school building appears in reports for 1878/1879 and most 1880s reports, and in catalogues for 1894/1895-1895/1896. Black-and-white photo illustrations are in reports for 1886, 1889/1890-1894, 1900, and 1987/1988, and, in some catalogues dating 1911/1912 and later. A fold-out aerial view of the campus is in the 1930/1931 catalogue. Title varies: Report . . . of the Institution for the Education of the Blind, at Austin, Texas (1872), Annual Report . . . of the Texas Institution for the Education of the Blind (1873). Report . . . of the Texas Institute for the Blind (1874/1875). Report . . . of the Institution of Learning for the Blind at Austin Texas (1876/1877). Annual Report . . . of the State School for the Blind at Austin, Texas (1911). Superintendent's Annual Report, Texas School for the Blind (1958). Annual Report of Texas School for the Blind . . . Texas School for the Deaf . . . Texas Blind and Deaf School (1966/1967). The Texas School for the Blind Annual Report (1987/1988). Catalogue of Texas Institution for the Blind, Austin, Texas (1894/1895). Catalogue and Announcement of the Texas State School for the Blind (1906/1908). Catalog and Announcement of the Texas School for the Blind (1916/1917).

Creator: Texas School for the Blind

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Administrative History: The state legislature of Texas established the Asylum for the Blind in Austin in 1856. Classes were first conducted in a rented residence until a school building was erected in 1858. In the aftermath of the Civil War, the school was closed from June 1865 until November 1866. Referred to in school reports as the Texas Institution for the Education of the Blind and, later, the Texas Institute for the Blind, the school's name was officially changed to The Blind Institute in 1905 and, in 1915, to Texas School for the Blind. In 1917, the school moved to a new Austin campus, where it is still located today. In 1887, the state opened a separate school in Austin for the education of African-American students who were deaf or blind. The Institute for Deaf, Dumb and Blind Colored Youths would undergo several name changes, finally becoming the Texas Blind and Deaf School in 1965. That same year blind students of the school were integrated into the Texas School for the Blind. In 1989, the school was renamed Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired.

Subjects: Schools for the blind and visually impaired Education -- Texas Annual reports

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