Title	Ohio State School for the Blind bolted blocks
Subject	United States. Work Projects Administration Blind -- Education -- Ohio Ohio State School for the Blind Bolts and nuts
Time Period	1930s 1940s
Place	Columbus (Ohio) Franklin County (Ohio)
Description	3" x 4" photograph of bolted blocks from the collection of models for the Ohio State School for the Blind. The sets of square wooden blocks and steel bolts consisted of three blocks of equal size and their corresponding size of bolt. Bolts fit into holes in the center of the blocks. The blocks and bolts were stored in small boxes made of plywood when not in use. The objective was to find the set of three blocks of the same size with the same sized hole, and then bolt them together with a bolt of the correct size. The block sets helped manual dexterity and coordination. Photographs and descriptions of models were included in the book "Models for the Blind" compiled by workers of the Ohio Writers' Program. The book was meant as a guide, to be used in the building and study of models, and as documentation of the achievements at the Ohio State School for the Blind. The models were a result of research, design and construction by employees of the Works Projects Administration. Models were made of durable materials to withstand regular usage. The average cost of labor for larger models was $45. A special room was built to store the models where teachers could borrow them to be used in classroom instruction. In 1837, the Ohio government established the Ohio Institution for the Education of the Blind. This institution was the predecessor of the Ohio State School for the Blind. It was the first public school for the blind in the United States. It was the first in the nation to be created and maintained entirely by the State government. The school opened its doors in 1839, and it was located in downtown Columbus, Ohio. Any blind children residing in Ohio could attend the institution. Eleven students enrolled at the Ohio Institution for the Education of the Blind this first year. The school initially had a maximum capacity of sixty students, but upon moving to a new building in 1874, more than three hundred students could attend at one time. Between 1839 and 1901, 2,058 students enrolled at the Ohio Institution for the Education of the Blind, with 339 attending in 1901 alone. In the early 1900s, the Ohio Institution for the Education of the Blind became known as the Ohio State School for the Blind, and the Ohio Department of Education assumed control of the school. In 1953, the school moved ten miles north of its original location to its present home. In 2005, 126 students enrolled in the Ohio State School for the Blind. Students as young as three and as old as twenty-one years of age attended the school. Students could receive their entire education (kindergarten through high school) at the institution. In addition, the Ohio State School for the Blind offered vocational training for its students.
Creator	Ohio Federal Writers' Project
Date of Original	1935-1943 circa
Collection	Ohio Guide Photographs
Source	State Archives Series 1039 AV
Submitting Institution	Ohio Historical Society
Rights	Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
Type	StillImage
File Name	SA1039AV_B11F02_016_001.tif
Image Height	2015
Image Width	2584
File Size	15629524 Bytes
Display File Type	image/jp2
Format	picture
Date created	2010-04-20
Date modified	2010-08-04

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