Dumb Collection

3 Wise Monkeys / Japanese
Hear no evil See no evil Speak no evil

Bear Waiter
Lord Suffield, having shot this bear in Russia, subjects it to the further indignity of being stuffed by Mr Ward and made to serve as a dumb waiter

Training Ship Exmouth, dumb bell drill
Uniformed boys on the deck of the Training Ship Exmouth perform dumb bell drill. The Exmouth, moored off Grays in Essex, was used by the Metropolitan Asylums Board as a naval training establishment

Advert for Terrys exerciser for men 1939
Christmas gift ideas from Herbert Terry exercisers, including steelstrand expander, golfer pocket wrist exerciser, spring grip dumbbells

Unloading Ships at London Docks, 1908
Illustration showing various cargoes coming ashore at London Docks, in the East End of London, 1908. Elephants tusks, barrels

Blue Cross Fund Poster
Fundraising poster during WWI for the Blue Cross Fund organised by the Dumb Friends League featuring a French horse who is " doing his bit"

DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE
Dumb Friends League Animal Hospital, Pimlico, London. A horse receiving treatment

Our Dumb Friends League. A society for the encouragement of kindness to animals. Blue Cross fund for wounded horses at the front. Poster showing a wounded horse on the battlefield. Date 1915

Sporting Gal and her horse - Dumb Luck
Dumb Luck Sporting Gal and her horse bemoaning the lack of success in the previous race. Dobbin is still the lucky recipient of a chunk of finest Tate & Lyle... Date: circa 1910

Strong Man at a Fair
A man plays a fanfare on a cornet to herald the great feat of strength being performed by a strong man at a fair, while a few people stand looking on

Deaf and Dumb School, Palayamkottai, India
C. E. Z. (Church of England Zenana Missionary Society) Deaf and Dumb School, Palamcottah (now Palayamkottai in the Tirunelveli district of Tamil Nadu), India. Deaf and Dumb children learning to talk

DEAF & DUMB ALPHABET DEAF & DUMB ALPHABET
The deaf and dumb sign language alphabet, as defined by the Royal National Institute for the Deaf, Britain. Date: 1960s

The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife, New York, USA
The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife, by Anatole France, with Lillah McCarthy and O P Heggie, at Wallacks Theatre, Broadway and 30th Street, New York, USA. circa 1923

Lillah McCarthy
A portrait painting of English actress and theatrical manager, Lillah Emma McCarthy, 1875-1960, who is seen here, in costume, playing The Dumb Wife, by Anatole France

Royal Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, Derby
Girls play with a ball on the recreation ground at the Royal Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, Derby Date: Date unknown

Birmingham Deaf And Dumb Institution Edgbaston
Birmingham, Deaf, and, Dumb, Institution, Edgbaston, circa, 1919, childrens, children, home, welfare, care, accomodation, society, housing, , 13548638

These are scenes from the London Orphan Asylum in Watford. 1) boys doing drill 2) the boys band 3) sewing class 4) the Prince of Wales proposing the toast of the asylum at the Jubilee Dinner at

Sequences of a man carrying - first a 20 kg dumb-bell, second a full bucket. Date: 1887

Asylum for Deaf and Dumb, Old Kent Road, London. Date: 1822

London Asylum for the Deaf, Margate Branch
Two children, identified as Evan Williams (with Indian clubs) and Rhoda Pippeck (with barbells), both inmates of the Margate branch of the London Asylum for the Support and Education of the Deaf

A pastor tricking his dumb neighbors wife to strip naked. Pastor John with Peter and his wife Magdalene. Neighbor Peters mare. Le jument du compere Pierre

Dog owners given free licences
Over 200 free licences were given to dog owners too poor to pay the 7s. 6d. tax. The licences were presented at the Regal Cinema, Marble Arch

Dumb cane, Dieffenbachia bowmannii (Dieffenbachia latimaculata). Drawn from nature and chromolithographed by P. de Pannemaeker from Jean Lindens l Illustration Horticole, Brussels, 1873

Dumb cane, Dieffenbachia seguine (Dieffenbachia seguinum). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by S. Nevitt after a botanical illustration by Rev. J.S. Henslow from Benjamin Maund and the Rev

St Johns Institution for Deaf and Dumb Children, Boston Spa
st, johns, institution, institute, deaf, dumb, roman, catholic, children, founded, sheffield, 1870, belgian, priest, desire, de, haerne, 1875, establishment, moved, boston, spa, west, yorkshire

New methods with the deaf and dumb 1906
Interesting photographs of the method used in the early 1900s to help children learn to communicate. Date: 1906

Glasgow Deaf and Dumb Asylum
The Deaf and Dumb Asylum, Prospecthill Road, Glasgow. Date: Early 1900s

Derby Deaf & Dumb Institution Derby Deaf & Dumb Institution
The Deaf and Dumb Institution on Friargate, Derby. Date: circa 1905

Margate Royal Asylum for Deaf and Dumb Date: 1908

Yorkshire Deaf and Dumb Institution, Doncaster
A view of the Yorkshire Institution for the Education and Instruction of Deaf and Dumb Children, founded at Doncaster in 1829. Date: Date unknown

DEAF / DUMB LANGUAGE
The sign language for the hands, devised by the Abbe lEpee for the benefit of the deaf and dumb. Date: circa 1770

DEAF-DUMB SIGN LANGUAGE
The Dumb Alphabet - a girl demonstrates the art of communicating with the deaf and dumb. Date: 1801

VETS / DOG PATIENTS
Out patients waiting at the animal dispensary for the poor: Our Dumb Friends League at Victoria, London. (Later named The Blue Cross) Date: circa 1912

VETS / ANIMAL DISPENSARY
Queues waiting for admission at the animal dispensary for the poor: Our Dumb Friends League at Victoria, London. (Later named The Blue Cross) Date: circa 1912

WW2 Poster -- Keep mum, shes not so dumb
Keep mum, shes not so dumb! Careless Talk Costs Lives. Colour photolithograph poster, modern reproduction of a World War Two poster

Rogier van der Weyden or Roger de la Pasture (1399 or 1400-1
Gothic Art. Flanders. Rogier van der Weyden or Roger de la Pasture (1399 or 1400-1464). Early Flemish painter. Saint John the Baptist Altarpiece, 1455-1460. Left panel

The Haven Salvation Army Childrens Home, Ramsgate, Kent
Barefoot girls carry out an exercise drill with dumb-bells at The Haven - a Salvation Army childrens home at Ramsgate. Date: Circa 1910

Animal ambulance workers WWII
Women hurrying to an animal ambulance for stray and unwanted animals during World War II

Blonde Typist 1960S
An attentive blonde typist or secretary, poised for dictation over the keyboard of her typewriter

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

Dumb Cake Custom
BAKING THE DUMB-CAKE At Hallowe en, St Johns Eve or other feasts, young women bake a cake in expectation of seeing their beloved : it must be done in total silence

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

Christmas 1918 in A Ward at Quex Park VAD Hospital
A Ward in the Drawing Room of Quex House on Christmas Day 1918. The room is highly decorated with flags, greetings, paper decorations and festive greenery

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

Spurgeons Orphanage, Stockwell - Boys at Drill
Spurgeons Orphanage, Stockwell. Boys perform a drill exercise holding dumb-bells

Mullers New Orphan Houses, Bristol - Dumb-bell Drill
Mullers New Orphan Houses, Bristol. Young boys exercise with a dumb-bell drill

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

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

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