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This picture of young boys playing on a junglegym at the rear of the building was used in a 1923 annual report. It was taken shortly before the school's relocated to Pelham Parkway.
The plaiting of cane bottoms and backs of chairs was first introduced in 1872 and was one of many vocational activities the students received.
These boys are learning to make baskets in this craft room. The baskets were sold to the public during visiting day.
This small narrow classroom has 6 students using kleidograph for taking notes. The kleidograph is a dot writer that wrote in New York Point invented at the School by William Bell Wait in 1894.
Production of reading books in New York point code was done in a specially designed printing press.
Music education was and still is an important aspect of the curriculum. Piano tuning and repair was taught at NYI until the 1970s.
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