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End of a world: A history of the Pennsylvania Working Home for Blind Men from its beginning in 1874 until the bankruptcy proceedings in 1979.
- Format:
- Book
- Thesis/Dissertation
- Author/Creator:
- Kettell, George H.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political planning.
- United States--History.
- United States.
- History.
- 0337.
- 0630.
- Penn dissertations--History.
- History--Penn dissertations.
- Local Subjects:
- Penn dissertations--History.
- History--Penn dissertations.
- 0337.
- 0630.
- Physical Description:
- 490 pages
- Contained In:
- Dissertation Abstracts International 51-08A.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- text file
- Summary:
- On the corner of 36th and Lancaster Avenue in Philadelphia stands a building in which employment and services were made available to the blind citizens of Pennsylvania for over one hundred five years. The mutilated brick corpse stands against the squalid surroundings a decadent ruin amidst scattered glass and grafitti. After nearly one hundred five years at the same location and after a protracted decline and a long and involved bankruptcy, the Center for the Blind expired in 1979. Its demise has been blamed on many things including incompetent management, dissension in the establishment of goals, and possibly even greed. Although the Center for the Blind survived for over a century, the financial structure was often in jeopardy and management was unable to establish an endowment large enough to protect the organization when it was in critical financial difficulty.
- The intent of this historical study is to examine the forces that were instrumental in the decline of the Center for the Blind and reconstruct the anatomy of the agency from its beginning as the Pennsylvania Working Home for Blind Men until its demise as the Center for the Blind. Although numerous factors have been examined including social and economic, the moral issues will receive special consideration.
- Notes:
- Thesis (Ph.D. in History) -- Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania, 1990.
- Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 51-08, Section: A, page: 2851.
- Supervisor: Bruce Kuklick.
- Local Notes:
- School code: 0175.
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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