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By 1833, ten more students, four of them girls, had joined the original six. In 1834, New York State began paying for some students, and New Jersey began sending children to the school. By now there were 26 students in all, and Russ was assisted by "one teacher of literary subjects, a foreman of
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Dr. Russ achieved results most remarkable. Besides carrying on instruction of his pupils and conducting the business of the Institution, he invented apparatus for the use of the blind, essayed to discover a means of reducing the size of books for the sightless, proposing a phonetic alphabet with
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John Dennison Russ, a philanthropist and physician, had proposed on his own to instruct blind children in the poorhouse before Akerly made him aware of the newly approved institution. Russ served without salary as the first teacher of the first class — three blind orphan boys brought from the
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Reflecting their lifelong friendship, Crosby prepared a series of recollections of Cleveland's days at the institute for his first run for the White House. She spoke of Cleveland as a hard worker who encouraged her to stand her ground against the domineering superintendent.
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to the New York State Legislature proposing an institution to "...improve the moral and intellectual condition of the Blind, and to instruct them in such mechanical employments as are best adapted to persons in such a condition." The legislation passed, but was
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and his brother William came to be employed at the school in 1853 and 1854, during the years Crosby was teaching. At that time there were about 116 pupils, ranging in age from 8 to 25, half male and half female. To finance his further studies for the
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the oldest school of its kind in the country, will mark its hundredth anniversary this week. The school was founded by Dr. Samuel Akerly and Samuel Wood. Its first director was Dr. John D. Russ and its first students were three blind orphan
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Frances Jane Crosby was born in a Brewster farmhouse in 1820. While still an infant she was blinded when her mother was mistakenly advised to apply mustard plasters to her eyes to treat discharges caused by a
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and as teacher of the basic subjects — reading, writing, arithmetic, geography — to the younger students. Neither brother was trained to teach and it was a matter of staying one step ahead of the students.
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The New-York Institute for the Blind, Thirty-fourth-street and Ninth-avenue, celebrated its fifty-first anniversary last night by an entertainment and exhibition given by the blind pupils of the institute.
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superintendent made life miserable for students and faculty alike. The Cleveland brothers would later recall their time at the institute as the bleakest in their lives.
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forty characters and representation thereof by dots and lines, adapted and improved the methods used in European schools for representing geographical information.
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is a private nonprofit school in New York City. The school was founded in 1831 as a school for blind children by Samuel Wood, a Quaker philanthropist,
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to larger quarters at the then-remote location of Ninth Avenue and 34th Street created difficulties. Russ resigned from the school in 1835.
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as well as for those who are blind. The institute's multiple facilities now serve children ranging in age from newborn to age 21.
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who had been a teacher until he was 40. Recognizing that reading books for children were few, he prepared and published a
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Yearbook of The New York Institute for the Education of the Blind: One-Hundredth Year(1932, pages 41-70)
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The food at the school was poor, the pay was low, and the buildings were cold and damp. A
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of the New York Institution for the Deaf. He had been active in developing instruction for
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mechanical pursuits, and a teacher of music." According to the school history,
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Private, special, day & boarding school in Bronx, New York City, USA
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National Commission for the Accreditation of Special Education Services
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by one state senator to limit the institution's purpose to children.
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The NYISE is part of the 4201 Schools Association in New York.
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Samuel Akerly had been for ten years the superintendent and
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Hadley Institute for the Blind and Visually Impaired
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New York Institute for the Blind

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New York City
USA
Coordinates
40°51′31″N 73°51′34″W / 40.858617°N 73.859438°W / 40.858617; -73.859438
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Overbrook School for the Blind
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Samuel Akerly
John Dennison Russ
34th Street
Ninth Avenue
Manhattan
New York City
learning and emotional disabilities
school-book publisher
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poorhouses
philanthropic
attending physician
deaf-mutes

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