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Sign language

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  • A vicar using sign language to the congregation at a service at a deaf and dumb church. Wood engraving after A.S. Hartick (?).
  • Hands showing the sign language alphabet. Line engraving.
  • Hands showing the sign language alphabet. Line engraving, 1748.
  • Hands showing the sign language alphabet. Line engraving, 1748.
  • Hands showing the sign language alphabet. Coloured line engraving.
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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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    Silent poetry : deafness, sign, and visual culture in modern France / Nicholas Mirzoeff.

    Mirzoeff, Nicholas, 1962- | Date: [1995], ©1995
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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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    Hands showing the sign language alphabet. Line engraving.

    | Reference: 17990i
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    Les bases pour comprendre le VIH/sida en langue des signes Française : les vidéos sont sorties, vous pouvez les visionner sur ce lien: www.aides.org/sounds ... / AIDES.

    | Date: [2014]
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