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Title: An address delivered in the Capitol, in Washington City, February 16th, 1828, at an exhibition of three of the pupils of the Pennsylvania Institution for the Education of the Deaf and Dumb. ... Published by request.
Created: January 1, 1828
Creator: Weld, Lewis
Type: Book
Description: Washington [D.C.]: Way & Gideon, printers. 1828. 3],4-11p. 21cm.
Subject: Deaf, Education, United States, Regional programs, Educational needs, Deaf education, Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf and Dumb

Title: Deaf-mutes in the United States : analysis of the census of 1910 with summary of state laws relative to the deaf as of January 1, 1918.
Created: January 1, 1918
Creator: Hill, Joseph A.
Type: Book
Description: Washington, Govt. print. off., 1918. 221 p. incl. tables. 31 cm.
Subject: Deaf, Statistical data, Heredity, Diseases, Deafness, Census figures, Deaf blind, United States

Title: Histories of American schools for the deaf, 1817-1893
Created: January 1, 1893
Creator: Fay, Edward Allen
Type: Book
Description: Washington, D. C. : The Volta Bureau, 1893. 3 v. : ill., plates (part fold.), ports., plans ; 23 cm. Prepared for the Volta Bureau by the principals and superintendents of the schools, and published in commemoration of the four hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America. Edited by Edward Allen Fay.
Subject: Deaf, Deaf history, Educational history, Canada, United States, Mexico, 19th century, History

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: Representative deaf persons of the United States of America; containing portraits and character sketches of prominent deaf persons (commonly called "deaf mutes") who are engaged in the higher pursuits of life.
Created: January 1, 1898
Creator: Gallaher, James Ernst
Type: Book
Description: Edited by James E. Gallaher. Chicago, J.E. Gallaher [c1898]. 224 p.: illus. (ports); 24 cm.
Subject: Biography, Deaf, United States, Biographical inventories