New Mexico School for the Visually Handicapped records, 1903-[ongoing].

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New Mexico School for the Visually Handicapped records, 1903-[ongoing].

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Summary: As of 1997 collection consists of records of the New Mexico School for the Visually Handicapped and its predecessor the New Mexico Institute for the Blind (1903-1984). Includes annual reports (1906-1924), minutes (1903-1909), clinical records (1906-1911), financial documents including one audit (1926-1929), newsletters, correspondence, and extensive photographs of the School and its students. Minutes, clinical records, and audit are only on microfilm. Newsletters consist of "Bear Pawses"(1975-1983) andits sucessor "In Focus"(1984). Correspondence includes a series of letters exchanged between the School's officials and former faculty member and noted blind singer Elizabeth Garrett (1915-1947); and letters exchanged between the School's officials and various organizations such as the American Association of Instructors of the Blind, the American Foundation for the Blind, the American Printing House for the Blind, and the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Co. (concerning transportation for students).

Papers : <4> linear feet.Microfilm reels : <2>.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7396690

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Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company

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American Association of Instructors of the Blind

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Garrett, Elizabeth, 1885?-1947

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Elizabeth Garrett was born in 1885 in Little Creek Canyon, north of Alto, New Mexico. Garrett was daughter of sheriff Pat Garrett of Lincoln County who killed Billy the Kid. Blind from birth, Garrett was able to be raised with minimal handicaps from her disability and finished her high school education and basic training at the Texas School for the Blind in Austin where she was qualified to teach both voice and piano. Known as "The Songbird of the Southwest," Garrett sang her song "O Fair New Me...

New Mexico Institute for the Blind

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New Mexico School for the Visually Handicapped

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The Institute for the Blind was established by a legislative act in 1903 (1903 Laws of N.M., Chp. 2, Sec. 3). In 1953 a legislative act changed the name to the School for the Visually Handicapped (1953 Laws of N.M., Chp. 62, Sec. 1). The School's purpose is to provide a special educational program for visually handicapped students at the elementary and secondary school levels. It is located in Alamogordo. From the description of New Mexico School for the Visually Handicapped records,...

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