Person who is partially or totally unable to hear

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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.

Two men engaged in anal sex, kissing and oral sex with the message 'Safer sex' shown in sign language above; an advertisement for deaf people in Berlin by the Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V. Colour lithograph by M. Taubenheim and W. Mudra, 199-.

Damned for their difference : the cultural construction of deaf people as "disabled" : a sociological history / Jan Branson and Don Miller.

Deaf and dumb people communicating through sign language. Pen and ink after S. della Gatta, 1828.

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Deaf people

Images from the collections

Images about Deaf people

Works from the collections

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.

Damned for their difference : the cultural construction of deaf people as "disabled" : a sociological history / Jan Branson and Don Miller.

Five aged doctors crushed together in consultation. Coloured lithograph by F-S. Delpech after L. Boilly, c. 1823.

Deaf and dumb people communicating through sign language. Pen and ink after S. della Gatta, 1828.

Deaf and Dumb Asylum, Newport, Kentucky: view from the river. Coloured line engraving by Fenner Sears & Co., 1832, after G. Wall.

Deaf people

Images from the collections

Images about Deaf people

Works from the collections

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.

Damned for their difference : the cultural construction of deaf people as "disabled" : a sociological history / Jan Branson and Don Miller.

Five aged doctors crushed together in consultation. Coloured lithograph by F-S. Delpech after L. Boilly, c. 1823.

Deaf and dumb people communicating through sign language. Pen and ink after S. della Gatta, 1828.

Deaf and Dumb Asylum, Newport, Kentucky: view from the river. Coloured line engraving by Fenner Sears & Co., 1832, after G. Wall.

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