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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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Deaf and dumb people communicating through sign language. Pen and ink after S. della Gatta, 1828.
Gatta, Saviero della, active 1777-1828.Date: 1828Reference: 18032i
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Hands showing the sign language alphabet. Line engraving.
Reference: 17990i
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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-.
Date: [19]85Reference: 674212i
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Deaf and dumb people from the Hackney Mission to the Deaf and Dumb performing plays, sign language, and portraits of staff at the institution. Wood engraving by J. Swain, 1884, after H. Morehen.
Morehen, Horace.Date: 15 March 1884Reference: 17971i
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A treatise on the education of the deaf and dumb : To which is added an essay on deafness, also, an appendix, relating to the education and comfort of the blind / by John England.
England, John, active 1819.Date: 1819
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Entertainment in sign language for the deaf and dumb at the Hanover Square rooms, London. Wood engraving.
Reference: 24162i
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The French sign language alphabet with ornate border, above it, the Abbé C.M. de l'Epée and the Abbé Sicard. Lithograph.
Reference: 18015i
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Deaf actors using sign language perform a play about Don Guzman to an audience in St Saviour's church hall, London. Wood engraving by G. Durand, 1877.
Date: [24 February 1877]Reference: 17967i
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Abbot de L'Epée, the founder of deaf and dumb education in France, above the French sign language alphabet. Coloured lithograph.
Reference: 18013i
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Dactylologie et langage primitif restitués d'après les monuments.
Barrois, Joseph, approximately 1785-1855.Date: 1850
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Two men entertain the deaf and dumb in sign language at the Freemason's Tavern. Wood engraving.
Reference: 24163i
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Everyone here spoke sign language : hereditary deafness on Martha's Vineyard / Nora Ellen Groce.
Groce, Nora Ellen, 1952-Date: c1985
Ephemera
Deafness ephemera : Organisations. Box 1.
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Hands showing the French sign language alphabet. Wood engraving.
Reference: 17999i
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Two hands illustrating sign language with Hebrew (?) characters. Engraving by J.W. Michaelis.
Michaelis, Johann Wilhelm, -1737.Reference: 18404i
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A white and a black man sign 'safer sex' in an advertisement by Deaf Mesmac. Colour lithograph.
Date: [between 1900 and 1999]Reference: 666597i
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Deafmutism and the education of deaf mutes by lipreading and articulation / Arthur Hartmann; translated and enlarged by J.P. Cassells.
Hartmann, Arthur.Date: 1881
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The wedding ceremony of two deaf and dumb people conducted in sign language. Process print after H. Ash.
Reference: 17977i
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Four men of different cultures sit around a table in a cafe signing to each other, an advertisement by Deaf Mesmac. Colour lithograph, 1996.
Date: 1996Reference: 666604i
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Hands spelling out in sign language the words 'Use a condom'; advertisement for safe sex by the British Deaf Association. Lithograph.
Date: [between 1900 and 1999]Reference: 666607i
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A Christmas entertainment, presented in sign language for the deaf and dumb, at the Hanover Square rooms, London. Wood engraving, 1865.
Date: [1865]Reference: 17959i
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Hands showing the alphabet of sign language. Wood engraving.
Reference: 17996i
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Two bare-chested men hugging; representing a condom as a preventive against AIDS. Colour lithograph by W. Mudra and M. Steger, 200-.
Date: [between 2000 and 2009?]Reference: 723482i
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Hands showing the sign language alphabet. Coloured line engraving.
Reference: 17991i