The New York Institution for the Blind circa 1868

1850 Henry Hoff color lithograph image of NYIB courtesty of the NY Historical Society.

This image was used in a magazine called Appletons' Journal: a magazine of general literature in 1869.
The article states that from 1832 to 1868 the average cost per annum to educate, support
and clothe a pupil was $112.33. The number of pupils under instruction in 1868 was 180.

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