Accession Number: AnnRep1.35
Scope & Content: Holdings: 1891-1903, 1905, 1907-1953, 1957, 1959, 1961, 1966, 1967-1967/1968, 1969/1970-1972/1973, 1974-1980, 1984/1985-1985/1986, 2000/2001. Printed annual reports document the school's management, building, and student activities. Financial statements are included. Bylaws are included up through the 1950s. A catalog of pupils appears in the 1891- 1972/1973 reports. Illustrations of engravings of the school building can be found in some of the earliest reports; black-and-white photo illustrations in reports of 1892 and later. Graduating class photos are in the reports from 1937-1979; and "Eighth Grade Graduation and Awards Day" in the 1966-1976 reports. Title varies: Annual Report of the Western Institution for the Blind (1891). Annual Report of the . . . Western Pennsylvania School for the Blind (1924). Annual Report of the . . . Western Pennsylvania School for Blind Children (1957).
Creator: Western Pennsylvania School for Blind Children
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Administrative History: The Western Pennsylvania School for Blind Children, a private school chartered by the state of Pennsylvania in 1887, opened in a residential building in Pittsburgh in 1890 to serve blind children from the western part of the state. Originally called Western Pennsylvania Institution for the Blind, the school moved to a new school building in 1894. The name changed in 1922 to Western Pennsylvania School for the Blind, and circa 1954 to Western Pennsylvania School for Blind Children. In the 1980s, the school began to focus on serving blind children with severe learning disabilities.
Subjects: Schools for the blind and visually impaired Education -- Pennsylvania Annual reports
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