Accession Number: AnnRep1.44
Scope & Content: Holdings: 1870-1890/1892, 1894/1896, 1898/1900, 1919/1920, 1934/1936, 1956/1958-1958/1960. Printed reports document school management, building, and student activities, and include financial statements. Reports through 1920 include a list of students. Illustration of an engraving of the school building serves as the frontispiece in reports of 1879-1882; black-and-white photo illustrations are in 1919/1920 and later reports. Title varies: Annual Report . . . of the West Virginia Institution for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind (1870). Biennial Report . . . of the Institution for the Deaf and Dumb and Blind (1874/1876). Biennial Report of the . . . West Virginia Schools for the Deaf and the Blind (1886/1888).
Creator: West Virginia Schools for the Deaf and the Blind
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Administrative History: The West Virginia Schools for the Deaf and the Blind (WVSDB) was established in 1870 by the state legislature of West Virginia and opened in Romney in September of that same year. Initially called the West Virginia Institution for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind, the name was changed in 1887. The school was integrated in 1955 when the West Virginia Schools for the Colored Deaf and Blind at Institute (Charleston), where African American students were taught, closed and merged with WVSDB.
Subjects: Annual reports Education -- West Virginia Schools for the blind and visually impaired Schools for the deaf
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