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Deaf culture

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Illustrated Manuscript Confessory for Deaf People

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MSS 16803
Content Description This collection contains a single leather-bound illustrated manuscript for Deaf persons to confess their sins. They could identify their sins by the illustrations and ask to be absolved. Called a Confessory, it was made in Flanders or the Netherlands roughly between 1770 and 1790.No title or author is present on the binding or internal board pages. The book is composed of ninety-two leaves, with ten leaves left blank. It appears to be a model book, with two sets of drawings made...
Dates: c.1770-1790

Everett Nathan "Silent" Rattan photograph

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: MSS 16827