Performance program scrapbooks, 1921-1958.

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Performance program scrapbooks, 1921-1958.

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As a residential treatment center and educational facility for mentally retarded persons in Massachusetts, the Walter E. Fernald State School is responsible for providing a safe, healthy, and humane environment for its clients. In fulfilling its mandate, the school and its predecssors have organized musical and dance concerts, community sings, and demonstrations in which clients, through their membership in the school glee club, band, or other group, perform. For the period 1921-1958, the activity is recorded in scrapbooks containing printed and typed programs of these performances. Information includes date of performance, pieces performed, and group performing. Also included are lists of glee club members for certain years.

0.35 cu. ft. (1 doc. box)

Commonwealth of Massachusetts State Archives

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts State Archives

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Massachusetts School for the Feeble-Minded

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The Experimental School for Teaching and Training Idiotic Children conducted at the Perkins Institution and Massachusetts Asylum for the Blind from 1848 was incorporated by Massachusetts as the Massachusetts School for Idiotic and Feeble-Minded Youth in 1850. It was renamed Massachusetts School for the Feeble-Minded in 1883 and Walter E. Fernald State School in 1925. From the description of Equipment and supplies reference files, 1899-1916. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122506093 ...

Walter E. Fernald State School

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The Experimental School for Teaching and Training Idiotic Children conducted at the Perkins Institution and Massachusetts Asylum for the Blind from 1848 was incorporated by Massachusetts as the Massachusetts School for Idiotic and Feeble-Minded Youth in 1850. It was renamed Massachusetts School for the Feeble-Minded in 1883 and Walter E. Fernald State School in 1925. From the description of Movement of population log, <1920-1977> (bulk <1960-1977>). (Unknown). WorldCat re...