Financial report of the Lucas County Sheltered Workshops Foundation, 1956-57. Minutes of the Board of Trustees of the Lott Sheltered Workshop Foundation of Lucas County, Inc., 1956-1958. On loan from the Lucas County Board for Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities.

This minute book documents the founding of Josina Lott’s sheltered workshop, the first sheltered workshop for developmentally disabled persons that was not associated with a residential institution. In October of that year, the board decided to lend the workshop $10,000 to be used for completing a new building. Members of the board were asked to personally underwrite the loan, which they did, with ten individuals loaning $1000 each.