Ohio State School for the Blind model ladder photograph

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Title	Ohio State School for the Blind model ladder photograph
Subject	Models Ladders Schools--Ohio Ohio State School for the Blind Blind--Education--Ohio--Columbus Ohio--History--Pictorial works Federal Writers' Project
Time Period	1930s 1940s
Place	Columbus (Ohio) Franklin County (Ohio)
Description	Photograph of a ladder from a collection of models, that were constructed at the school by a WPA project, for the Ohio State School for the Blind and are located in the basement of the school. The models are of various monuments around the United States that blind students can examine with their hands. 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. 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_017_001.tif
Image Height	2608
Image Width	2037
File Size	15946176 Bytes
Display File Type	image/jp2
Format	picture
Date created	2010-04-20
Date modified	2011-06-29

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