New York Institute for Special Education: History

• Image Essay: School life in the 1890's (NEW)
  
  
• Image Essay: A Place in the Country
• History of Reading Codes for the Blind
• A Turning point in the history of the school (1896).

• Merle E. Frampton(1903 - 1998)
  Director of the New York Institute for the Education of the Blind 1935-1971
• Clement Clark Moore (1779-1863) - Writer of "T'was the Night before Christmas"
• Grover Cleveland Teacher at NYI
• Fanny Crosby, famous student/teacher poetess
• Harvey Fuller, student 1856-1860
• Alice A. Holmes: student and poet. Read her account of NYI life in 1838
• William Bell Wait, pioneering leader 1863-1916

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