AV 180 Ohio Institution for Feeble Minded Youth Lantern Slide Collection

              AV 180
Ohio Institution for Feeble Minded Youth Lantern Slide Collection
Page 1
OHIO HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Manuscripts/Audiovisual Collections
AV 180
Ohio Institution for Feeble Minded Youth
Lantern Slide Collection
1895-1906
OVERVIEW OF THE COLLECTION
Number:
AV 180
Title:
Ohio Institution for Feeble Minded Youth Slide Collection
Creator:
Unknown
Dates:
1895-1906
Media:
25 Lantern Slides
Quantity:
0.12 cubic feet
Location:
Ohio Historical Society
HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE COLLECTION
The “Ohio Asylum for the Education of Idiotic and Imbecile Youth” was created by an act of Legislature, April 17, 1857. It opened in Columbus, Ohio in a rented building on Friend Street (now East Main St.) on August 3, 1857. Nine pupils registered on opening day and the number increased to fifteen in the first year. The “asylum” accepted children without commitment between the ages of six and sixteen at the discretion of the first superintendent Dr. R. G. Patterson with the approval of the governor appointed Board of Trustees. The first teacher was Miss Julia Burbank and Miss Emily Whitman acted as the first matron. In 1864 the institution moved from the original location to the “country” on 187.5 acres two and one-half miles from the Capital. The buildings were completed and occupied on July 1868. This location accommodated 300 pupils and was filled within the year.
In November 1881 the building was destroyed by fire and new secure fireproof buildings were built. The building continued its improvements in 1906 and was complete with a new greenhouse, inside plumbing, sewage and a telephone.