Historical Documents

Photo Essays

• Adaptive Objects from the Archive
• Braillewriter Archive
• Camp Wapanacki
  
• Photo Album of NYI circa 1937
• Image Essay: School life at the 9th Avenue School
• Image Essay: A Place in the Country
• Archive Annie(1930's doll) updated
• The History of Technology for the Blind - Conference Presentation
• Landlord to the NY Yankees

Famous Alumni and Staff

• Hannah Babcock - Music Director 1876 - 1914
• James Boorman, Our first benefactor
• Grover ClevelandTeacher at NYI
• Fanny Crosby, famous student/teacher poetess
• S. H. DeKroyft, her account of 1849 visit by Indian chief
• Harry C. Farrar: How my house got its name?
• Harvey Fuller, student 1856-1860
• Alice A. Holmes:student and poet.
  Read her account of NYI life in 1838
• Clement Clark Moore (1779-1863)
  Writer of "T'was the Night before Christmas"
• Dr. Edward M. Van Cleve
  Speech on education and the nature of NYI
• William Bell Wait, pioneering leader 1863-1916
• Other past Alumni and Staff
• Officers of the Institute from its Incorporation in 1831

Obituaries

• Roger Laghezza (1930-2009)
  Teacher of NYISE
  
• Gordon Chipman Dewey (1923-2002)
  President of the Board NYISE
• Merle E. Frampton(1903-1998)
  Director of the New York Institute for the Education of the Blind 1935-1971
• Fanny Crosby (1820-1915)
  Student, Teacher, Poetess, Author, Hymnist
• F. Augustus Schermerhorn (1844-1919) NY Times PDF
  Member of the Board for over 40 years and President for 10 years.
• John Dennison Russ, M. D., (1801-1881)
  First teacher of the blind in the United States