Volume 1

Histories of American schools for the deaf, 1817-1893 / prepared for the Volta Bureau by the principals and superintendents of the schools, and published in commemoration of the four hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America ; edited by Edward Allen Fay.

Date:
1893
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Histories of American schools for the deaf, 1817-1893 / prepared for the Volta Bureau by the principals and superintendents of the schools, and published in commemoration of the four hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America ; edited by Edward Allen Fay. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    * If this project meets with the approval of the majority of your col- leagues it will be at once taken in hand by the Volta Bureau, and the work will be issued in proper form (unless unavoidably delayed) by the date of the opening of the World's Columbian Exposition. Soliciting an early reply, I am, sincerely yours, JOHN HITZ, Superintendent. On the 6th of January, 1893, a sufficient number of principals and superintendents having signified their ap- proval of the plan and promised their co-operation, the work was fully decided upon. It has been carried for- ward as rapidly as possible on the general plan suggested in the circular, with the supplementary addition of the histories of several organizations not schools, designed to promote the education of the deaf, a list of American peri- odicals published for the benefit of the deaf, an alpha- betical list, derived mostly from the school histories, of the names and addresses of American instructors of the deaf, and a list of the publications of the Volta Bureau. The histories of the American, New York, Pennsylva- nia, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Tennessee, Illinois, South Carolina, Missouri, Wisconsin, Michigan, Iowa, Texas, Columbia, Alabama, California, Kansas, Minnesota, Clarke, Arkansas, Maryland, Nebraska, St. Joseph's, West Vir- ginia, Colorado, Chicago, Western Pennsylvania, Western New York, New England Industrial, South Dakota, Penn- sylvania Oral, New Jersey, Utah, Texas Colored, Montreal Catholic (Male and Female), Ontario and Manitoba schools were printed by the respective schools—most of them by their own pupils; those of the other schools, which lacked the necessary means or facilities, have been printed by the Volta Bureau. The History of the Wisconsin System of Public Day-Schools was printed by the Wis- consin Phonological Institute. No doubt greater uniform- ity and elegance of appearance, and, by reason of contin- uous paging, greater convenience of reference would have been attained if all the histories had been printed at one press; but in that case the collection would have been deprived of the interest and value which now attaches to a large part of it as the handiwork of the pupils.