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Images about Deaf people

35 images from works
  • Five aged doctors crushed together in consultation. Watercolour after L. Boilly, ca. 1823.
  • Deaf and Dumb Asylum, Newport, Kentucky: view from the river. Coloured line engraving by Fenner Sears & Co., 1832, after G. Wall.
  • Two men entertain the deaf and dumb in sign language at the Freemason's Tavern. Wood engraving.
  • Four deaf men signing the message 'Stop AIDS. Use Condoms. Don't share needles'; a safe sex advertisement for the deaf by the Moomba Deaf Association and Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations.Colour lithograph by Paul Drakeford.
  • Hannah Thatcher, deaf and dumb since birth, taught to hear and speak by W. Wright. Stipple engraving by J. Rogers, 1823, after Miss R.E. Drummond.
  • Queen Victoria using sign language to talk to Mrs B. Tuffield, a deaf mute woman. Process print after H. Ash.
  • Five hands signing against a decorative background with a message for deaf people to open their eyes to AIDS; advertisement by the AIDS Education/Services for the Deaf. Colour lithograph.
  • Four men of different cultures sit around a table in a cafe signing to each other, an advertisement by Deaf Mesmac. Colour lithograph, 1996.
  • Five aged doctors crushed together in consultation. Coloured lithograph by F-S. Delpech after L. Boilly, c. 1823.
  • Hands spelling out in sign language the words 'Use a condom'; advertisement for safe sex by the British Deaf Association. Lithograph.

Works from the collections

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    Four deaf men signing the message 'Stop AIDS. Use Condoms. Don't share needles'; a safe sex advertisement for the deaf by the Moomba Deaf Association and Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations.Colour lithograph by Paul Drakeford.

    | Date: [between 1990 and 1999] | Reference: 669787i
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    Damned for their difference : the cultural construction of deaf people as "disabled" : a sociological history / Jan Branson and Don Miller.

    Branson, Jan. | Date: [2002], ©2002
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    Five aged doctors crushed together in consultation. Coloured lithograph by F-S. Delpech after L. Boilly, c. 1823.

    Boilly, Louis, 1761-1845. | Date: [1823] | Reference: 16314i
    Part of: Grimaces
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    Deaf and dumb people communicating through sign language. Pen and ink after S. della Gatta, 1828.

    Gatta, Saviero della, active 1777-1828. | Date: 1828 | Reference: 18032i
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    Deaf and Dumb Asylum, Newport, Kentucky: view from the river. Coloured line engraving by Fenner Sears & Co., 1832, after G. Wall.

    Wall, G. | Date: 3 January 1832 | Reference: 18443i

Related topics

Sign Language
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
Hearing Loss
Mutism
United States
Safe Sex
Medical consultation
Physicians
Wigs
Staffs (Sticks, canes, etc.)

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