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Title: Single and double hand alphabet
Creator: Alvord, Corydon A., approximately 1812-1874, printer
Contributor: Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued: 1856
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Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History
Rights Information: For information on use of Digital Library materials, please see Library Rights and Permissions: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Image of a chart of the single- and double-handed alphabet in sign language as used in the United States in the 19th century with accompanying text; bust-length portraits of the Abbe de L'Epee and Miss Laura Bridgeman at top left and right; eye-level view of the "Institution for the Deaf and Dumb" on the east side of the Hudson River in New York at center.
Illustrations are engravings. Date supplied by cataloger based on printer history; C. A. Alvord was located on Vandewater Street beginning in approximately 1856, and he died in 1874. "C.A. Alvord, printer., 15 Vandewater Street, New York."--text, bottom center margin.
Type: image
Extent: 1 letterpress : uncolored ; overall 48.1 x 60.64 cm (18 15/16 x 23 7/8 in.)
Identifier: priJLC_EDU_001930
500965
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/4358
Language: English
Subject: Portraits
Sign language--Pictorial works
Schools--Pictorial works
Intaglio prints--1850-1875. (gmgpc)
Relief prints--1850-1875. (gmgpc)
Source: Jay T. Last Collection
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The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library

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