Ladies & gentlemen: I am deaf and dumb : consequently am obliged, so as to earn my livelihood to offer for sale to the sympathetic public the present little book which contains 72 humorous shadowgraphs.

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[1903?]
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view Ladies & gentlemen: I am deaf and dumb : consequently am obliged, so as to earn my livelihood to offer for sale to the sympathetic public the present little book which contains 72 humorous shadowgraphs.

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Ladies & gentlemen: I am deaf and dumb : consequently am obliged, so as to earn my livelihood to offer for sale to the sympathetic public the present little book which contains 72 humorous shadowgraphs. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Booklet containing 72 'shadowgraphs' (images made from the shadows of people's hands with a few props). Includes a chart of the manual alphabet and a portrait of the Abbot Charles de l'Épée (1712-1789), "originator of the deaf and dumb alphabet".

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[Place of publication not identified] : [s.n], [1903?]

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7 pages : illustrations ; 16 cm

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