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Title: Vox oculis subjecta : a dissertation on the most curious and important art of imparting speech, and the knowledge of language to the naturally deaf, and, consequently, dumb...
Created: January 1, 1783
Creator: Green, Francis
Type: Book
Description: London : Sold by B. White, 1783. xvi, 224 p. ; 19 cm. With a particular account of the Academy of Messrs. Braidwood of Edinburgh, and a proposal to perpetuate, and extend the benefits thereof." Handwritten note at front states: Charles Baker, Doncaster. Judge Crauch of Washington gives the name of the author of this work as Francis Green, native of Boston, but does not say how he ascertained it. Baker Collection no. 58.
Subject: Speech education, Deaf education, Speech, Deaf, Great Britain, Schools, Scotland

Title: A treatise on the education of the deaf and dumb : to which is added an essay on deafness, also, an appendix relating to the education and comfort of the blind
Created: January 1, 1819
Creator: England, John
Type: Book
Description: Montrose, Eng. : J. Smith, 1819. xx, 48 p. ; 19 cm. Baker Collection no. 111.
Subject: Religious education, Deaf education, Educational needs, Deaf, Great Britain

Title: On schools for the deaf and dumb in Great Britain and Ireland
Created: January 1, 1858
Creator: Bather, A.H.
Type: Book
Description: London : printed for the Association in Aid of the Deaf and Dumb by Judd & Glass, 1858. 18 p.; 19 cm.
Subject: Great Britain, Deaf education, Ireland, Residential schools, Authors, Deaf, Teaching methods

Title: Manual alphabets and their history : with sketches, illustrations, and varieties.
Created: January 1, 1875
Creator: Swett, William
Type: Book
Description: Marblehead, Mass. : W.B. Swett, 1875. 15 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Subject: Deaf, Means of communication, Finger spelling, United States, Great Britain

Title: The history of the Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb : to which is added a sermon
Created: January 1, 1805
Creator: Hawker, Robert
Type: Book
Description: London : William and Smith, 1805. 49 p. ; 21 cm.
Subject: Asylum for the support and education of the deaf and dumb children, Social services, Deaf children, Educational history, Dead education, Great Britain

Title: The deaf and dumb : their position in society, and the principles of their education, considered
Created: January 1, 1844
Creator: Scott, William R.
Type: Book
Description: London : J. Graham, 1844. 111 p. ; 21 cm.
Subject: Educational methods, Deaf education, Educational history, Great Britain

Title: Conversations between a mother and daughter, on the education of the deaf and dumb
Created: January 1, 1840
Type: Book
Description: Derby : Henry Mozley and Sons, 1840. 29 p. ; 13 cm. Baker Collection no. 238.
Subject: Educational programs, Great Britain, Social environment, Deaf education, Deaf

Title: Chyrology : or, the art of reading, spelling and ciphering by the fingers
Created: January 1, 1812
Creator: Lucas, T.M.
Type: Book
Description: London : Printed for the author, Harrison & Leigh, Printers : sold by Mathews and Leigh, 1812. 48 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill., port. ; 21 cm.
Subject: Deaf, Finger spelling, Deaf education, Numbers, Great Britain

Title: The census of the deaf and dumb in 1851
Created: January 1, 1855
Creator: Buxton, David
Type: Book
Description: 1855. 12 p.; 21 cm. Baker Collection no. 352. "From the Journal of the Statistical Society of London, June, 1855." "Read before the Statistical Section of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, at Liverpool, 23rd September, 1854."
Subject: Census figures, Deaf, Demography, Great Britain, Deaf education, School demography