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The mission of Overbrook School for the Blind is to provide the best possible education
and life skills training for children who are blind and visually impaired, just as our founder,
Julius Friedlander, intended. A young teacher of the blind in Germany, Mr. Friedlander
came to Philadelphia determined to establish a school here. He found several prominent
Philadelphians ready to help him in his venture, and in March of 1832, he rented a building
at 20
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and Race Streets, and called it The Pennsylvania Institution for the Instruction of
the Blind.
Unfortunately, Mr. Friedlander died only six years later, but his school was already well
established in Philadelphia and it continued to grow, offering quality education to the
children of the area who were blind or visually impaired. In 1899, with the promise of
more space, the school moved to its present location at 6333 Malvern Avenue. It was re-
named Overbrook School for the Blind in 1946 because of its new location in the
Overbrook neighborhood of Philadelphia.
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Image 2: The front gate of Overbrook School for the Blind
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