Deaf Collection (page 2)

Sign Language Card
DACTYLOLOGIE - manual alphabet for deaf-mutes. Date: late 19th century

Abbe Sicard / Langlois
ABBE R.A.C. SICARD French teacher of the deaf and dumb

Helen Keller and her teacher
Helen Adams Keller (1880-1968), American author and lecturer, who was left blind, deaf and mute at the age of 19 months. Seen here with her teacher, Anne Sullivan Macy (1866-1936)

Advert for D. H Wilsons deafness 1902
Wilsons common-sense ear-drums, deafness and head noises relieved. 1902

School for Deaf Boys, Anerley, London - gardening
The London School Boards Anerley Residential School for Older Deaf Boys - boys at work in their own gardens. Date: early 1900s

School for Deaf Boys, Anerley, London - dinner time
The London School Boards Anerley Residential School for Older Deaf Boys - boys eating dinner in one of the Schools cottage homes. Date: early 1900s

Cavendish Road School for Deaf, Balham - Language Lesson
The London School Boards Cavendish Road School for Deaf, Balham - a language lesson accompanies a childrens tea party. Date: early 1900s

Cavendish Road School for Deaf, Balham
The London School Boards Cavendish Road School for Deaf, Balham, south London - children are being taught to speak. Date: early 1900s

Cavendish Road School for Deaf Children, Balham
The London School Boards Cavendish Road School for Deaf, Balham, south London - a clay modelling class. The boy at the end of the table holds tame rat, used as a model. Date: early 1900s

Gladstone in 1888
WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE As a deaf old man in the House of Commons, he strains to hear what the opposition has to say... Date: 1888

Ottavio Assarotti
OTTAVIO ASSAROTTI Italian cleric, teacher of the deaf and dumb. Date: 1753 - 1829

Cartoon, He was phoning from the tobacco shop, WW1
Cartoon, He was phoning from the tobacco shop. A supposedly deaf and dumb man is caught on the telephone, arrested as a spy and escorted through the street, much to the delight of the children

The Silent Service by H. M. Bateman, WW1 cartoon 1918
THE SILENT SERVICE An elderly gentleman strains himself to try to hear what a younger man is saying. Date: 1918

Deaf Reformer & Photographer Selwyn Oxley, Grange Road, Ealing, County of London, England. Date: 1910s

Vintage Caravan, England. Showing Deaf Reformer & Photogrpaher Selwyn Oxley - Caravan workers enjoying a mid-day meal on the van - Inside the door is the Ephphatha Almanack 1913. Date: 1910s

E. Thorp Hicks with his sound educator for helping the deaf
The inventor of the Sound educator, Mr E. Thorp Hincks, pictured with his invention which subjected the ear to the recurrence of sounds whose pitch

Cartoon, There are none so deaf, WW1
Cartoon, There are none so deaf, showing a typical pessimist talking about the war to two women in a restaurant. Surrounding them is a border of barbed wire, keeping out any item of good news

Hannah Thatcher
HANNAH THATCHER girl born deaf and dumb, until Mr Wright came along and cured her, since when she resides with him in Princes Street, Hanover Square, London. Date: CIRCA 1823

GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco de (1746-1828). Duel with Cudgels. 1819 - 1823. Mural painting mounted on canvas. This painting with the other 13 works decorated two rooms of the Quinta del Sordo

GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco de (1746-1828). Judith and Holophernes. 1819 - 1823. Mural painting mounted on canvas. This painting with the other 13 works decorated two rooms of the Quinta del Sordo

Two Monks
GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco de (1746-1828). Two Monks. An old and deaf monk leaning on his stick

Duncan Campbell - 2
DUNCAN CAMPBELL Deaf and dumb fortune teller. Date: 1680 - 1730

Duncan Campbell - 1
DUNCAN CAMPBELL Deaf and dumb fortune teller. Date: 1680 - 1730

Albert Newsam, the deaf & mute artist. Date before 1868. Albert Newsam, the deaf & mute artist. Date before 1868

Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf and Dumb. View of exterior of the institution surrounded by images of the dormitories, the chapel, the directors room and other interiors

Shepherd bellows into horses ear
Rather Hard of Hearing A young Shepherd fails to get the message across to his trusty steed, who appears to be stone deaf. Date: circa 1910s

Sign Language - The Alphabet illustrated on a postcard Date: circa 1910s

Workhouse inmate Mary Jane promoting charitable work
A postcard promoting the work of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (SPG). Its caption reads Mary Jane, who is a deaf and blind inmate of a Workhouse in Devonshire

Miming a gesture, the method of registering sunshine, posed
Human speech the result of a variety of movements made by the muscles which control the lungs. A typical deaf-mute gesture, the sign language for sunshine

Maxim / Hiram / Van Fair 04
SIR HIRAM STEVENS MAXIM British inventor, born in America, best known for the Maxim recoil-operated machine gun (1884)

Abbe De L epee
Abbe CHARLES MICHEL de l EPEE French philanthropist, inventor of an alphabet for the deaf-and-dumb. Date: 1712 - 1789

Thos. Hopkins Gallaudet
THOMAS HOPKINS GALLAUDET American educator who after studying in Paris introduced methods for teaching the deaf and dumb, and advocated teacher training institutions

Children & Deaf Woman
Victorian children teasing a deaf woman as she walks down the street

Pneumatic Drill
A man with curly dark hair using a pneumatic drill to dig up an old pavement

Helen Keller
American author and lecturer, Helen Adams Keller (1880-1968), blind, deaf and mute from the age of 19 months; with her tutor, Anne Sullivan Macy, and the actor Joseph Jefferson

Helen Keller / Piano
HELEN ADAMS KELLER (1880-1968), American author and lecturer who was left blind, deaf and mute at the age of 19 months, seen here listening to a piano

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