Attendees are gathered on the steps of Mott Hall. The Fifth National Conference of Principals and Superintendents of Institutions for Deaf-Mutes took place during July 9-13, 1884 at the Minnesota Institute for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind in Faribault. At this conference, the advisability of employing deaf teachers to teach deaf students was discussed, and this issue became part of the oralism vs. manualism debate in deaf education. The man sitting in the front row on the left end is Dr. James L. Smith. Sitting to the right of Dr. Smith is Olof Hanson. The bearded man in a buttoned jacket standing in the front row, to the right of a woman in a white dress, is Dr. Philip G. Gillett, Superintendent of the Illinois School for the Deaf. The bearded man to the right of Dr. Gillett is Judge Rodney A. Mott. The man with a mustache standing in the front row on the right end is George Wing. The man with a hand thrust inside his jacket in the second row, fourth from the left, is Edward Miner Gallaudet, President of the Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb (later renamed Gallaudet College). The man with a dark beard standing to the right of center, behind a woman in a striped dress, is Alexander Graham Bell.
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Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf Alumni Association Museum
Members of the boys' baseball team are posed in front of Mott Hall. An inscription on the back reads: "The property of Athletic Ass'n Per Edwin Isaacson, May 25, 1920."
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Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf Alumni Association Museum
Members of the boys' baseball team are posed in front of Noyes Hall. In the front row, from left to right, are Anton Mallinger, John Jacobson, Alfred Melby, captain Anthony (Tony) Garbarino, Anders Gran, and Tobias Melby. In the back row, from left to right, are Hans Saterlund, assistant manager Carl E. Torell, Jerry Stewart, manager Victor R. Spence, William Hillmer, and Grant Martin.
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Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf Alumni Association Museum
Members of the boys' basketball team are posed with an award in front of the Gymnasium building. In the front row, from left to right, are William Berg, Bert Smith, Conrad Setran, Glen Samuelson, Carl Pehlgrim, and Waino Ekman. In the back row, from left to right, are faculty manager Wesley Lauritsen, student manager Herman Ahern, Robert Clark, Jasper Colianni, Jack Guyette, John Fatticci, and coach Lloyd Ambrosen.
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Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf Alumni Association Museum
Members of the girls' basketball team are assembled on the outside steps of a school building. The student sitting to the left of the student holding a basketball is Mildred Saunders.
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Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf Alumni Association Museum
Students from the graduation class of 1893 and staff are assembled in front of Mott Hall. In the front row, from left to right, are Blanche Wilkins (later Williams), Peter N. Peterson, Edith Vandegrift, Superintendent Jonathan Lovejoy Noyes, and Martha Larntson. In the back row, from left to right, are Dr. James L. Smith, Mary Patenaude, George Renkes, and an unknown male student.
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Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf Alumni Association Museum
Students from the graduation class of 1892 and staff are assembled in front of Mott Hall. The man seated in the center of the front row is Superintendent Jonathan Lovejoy Noyes. The man with a mustache in the last row, second from the left, is Dr. James L. Smith.
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Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf Alumni Association Museum
Students from the Class of 1937 are assembled on the campus lawn at the Minnesota School for the Deaf. The front row of female students are, from left to right, Vietta Gardner, Gertrude VanDruten, Agney Haley, Genevieve Holt, Lydia Simola, Sigrid Swanson, Lempi Niemela, Marie Seebach, Josephine Smith, Cecile Grenier, Maryann Delaney, Ruth Johnson, Ellen Leinonen, Sheba Latz, Rose or Ethel Blinderman (twin sisters), and Rose or Ethel Blinderman (twin sisters). The back row of male students are, from left to right, Dennis Anderson, Orval Jefferson, Fred Schnabel, Clair Test, Waino Ranta, Joe Myklebust, Victor Lee, Daniel Manuel, Theodore Stawikoski, Adolph Svoboda, and Uno Sandvick.
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Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf Alumni Association Museum
Members of the girls' dance team are assembled in a line. They performed at the District Basketball Tournament. From left to right are Pearl Stanley, Ruth Berglund, Laura Eiler, Sheba Latz, Eva Conley, Katherine Jepson, Agnes Nosko, Jenny Iacono, Beatrice Nelson, Sigrid Swanson, Hazel Lind, and Constance (Connie) Schram.
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Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf Alumni Association Museum
Members of the girls' drum corps are assembled with their drums in front of the Gymnasium building. The student in the white uniform on the right end is drum majorette Frances Anderson.
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Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf Alumni Association Museum
Students in the first oral education class are assembled with a teacher in a classroom. The student sitting in the front row on the left end is Petra Fandrem Howard. The phrase "First Oral Class, 1906" is written on the blackboard in the background.
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Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf Alumni Association Museum
Students in the first oral education class are assembled with a teacher in front of Noyes Hall. The student standing in the middle of the back row is Petra Fandrem Howard. The students in the back row, from left to right, are fingerspelling "F-I-R-S-T" for the word "first." The students in the front row, from left to right, are fingerspelling "O-R-A-L-0-6" for the word "oral" and year "1906."
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Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf Alumni Association Museum
Students and staff are standing in front of the first school building that was used as a temporary home for the Minnesota Institute for the Education of the Deaf and Dumb. One of the school's founders, Judge Rodney A. Mott, rented Major Fowler's store on what is now the corner of Division and Central Avenue in Faribault, and the school opened in this temporary home on September 9, 1863. This building was used during 1863-1868, and the school's name changed to "Minnesota Institute for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind" during this time.
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Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf Alumni Association Museum
Students and staff are standing in front of the first school building that was used as a temporary home for the Minnesota Institute for the Education of the Deaf and Dumb. One of the school's founders, Judge Rodney A. Mott, rented Major Fowler's store on what is now the corner of Division and Central Avenue in Faribault, and the school opened in this temporary home on September 9, 1863. This building was used during 1863-1868, and the school's name changed to "Minnesota Institute for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind" during this time.
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Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf Alumni Association Museum
Members of the boys' football team are posed on the stairs in front of Tate Hall. The student without a helmet sitting in the front row on the right end is Maurice Potter. He was known for playing without a helmet. The man with a cap sitting to the right of Maurice Potter is coach Wesley Lauritsen.
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Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf Alumni Association Museum
Members of the boys' football team are assembled in front of a school building. In the front row, from left to right, are John Stauber, Anton Mallinger, Edmund Joyce, Peter Kasperick, and John Wojciechowski. In the middle row, from left to right, are J.B. Bumgardner (housefather and coach), Frank Wheeler (teacher and manager), Louis Albert Roth (housefather and coach), Harrison Pettit, and Oscar Johnson. In the back row, from left to right, are Emil Hruska, Severin Berlan, Gottfried Soderfelt, Vladi Droskowski, Adolph Weber, Hugh Friel, and Ernest Ringnell.
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Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf Alumni Association Museum
Members of the boys' football team are assembled outside. In the front row, from left to right, are John Mathews, Marvin Olson, Roger Golen, Frank Turk, William Stifter, R. Sund, William Arnold, Curtis Andresen, and Ralph Grommesh. In the second row, from left to right, are student manager Wilfred Lazarz, coach George Hanson, Burnell Rasmussen, Myron Smith, Jack Wright, Warren Bemlott, Rudolph Johnson, Kevin Meagher, Douglas Burke, assistant coach Edwin T. Johnson, and faculty manager Wesley Lauritsen. In the third row, from left to right, are Richard Stifter, Ralph Carty, Kenneth Pelarski, Keith Thompson, Dick Caswell, and Gerald Pelarski.
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Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf Alumni Association Museum
Students in the Senior Class of 1926 perform a Gallaudet Day program in the auditorium of Noyes Hall. Two students in the center are posing as the famous American statue of Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Alice Cogswell. Gallaudet was the founder of the American School for the Deaf, and Alice Cogswell was a student there. Both students are fingerspelling the letter "A" for the name "Alice."
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Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf Alumni Association Museum
Members of the boys' Hi-Y Club are posed in front of Tate Hall. The students are wearing military uniforms, and four are also wearing white robes. They are standing with two signs that read "Minnesota School for the Deaf Hi-Y Club" and "Service Mind Body Spirit." The Hi-Y Club name is a contraction of "High School" and "Young Men's Christian Association." The two men with fedora hats in the front row, from left to right, are Wesley Lauritsen and Superintendent Victor O. Skyberg.
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Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf Alumni Association Museum
Student theater performers John Fatticci and Audree Bennett pose for a dramatic skit. Audree Bennett Norton went on to become one of the founders of the National Theater of the Deaf, and was the first deaf actor to appear on American television in shows such as Mannix, Family Affairs, and Man and the City.
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Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf Alumni Association Museum
View of a hallway in the Lido Theater, Faribault, Minnesota. Liebenberg and Kaplan, Architects (1919-1969), were noted for designing more than 200 motion picture theatres in the Upper Midwest, many of the early ones featuring an art deco style.
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University of Minnesota Libraries, Northwest Architectural Archives
View of the box office and interior entrance of the Lido Theater, Faribault, Minnesota. Liebenberg and Kaplan, Architects (1919-1969), were noted for designing more than 200 motion picture theatres in the Upper Midwest, many of the early ones featuring an art deco style.
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University of Minnesota Libraries, Northwest Architectural Archives