Six female students are assembled in front of Tate Hall. From left to right, they are fingerspelling "H-E-L-L-O" for the word "hello." The last student is pointing at the camera, and may be signing the word "you."
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf Alumni Association Museum
Students are assembled with teacher Ruth Buxton for a portrait. Ruth Buxton served at the school during 1892-1893. From back to front, left to right, the students are fingerspelling "I-L-O-V-E-M-I-S-S-B-U-X-T-O-N" for the sentence "I love Miss Buxton."
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Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf Alumni Association Museum
Students from Minnesota are assembled on the lawn of Gallaudet College next to the Chapel Hall building. All the students graduated from the Minnesota Institute for Defectives (Deaf, Blind and Feeble-Minded). From left to right are Jay Cooke Howard, Herbert C. Merrill, James S. Bowen, Marie A. Patenaude (later Mrs. Anton Schroeder), Louis Albert Roth, Thomas Sheridan, Peter N. Peterson, and Ralph H. Drought.
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Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf Alumni Association Museum
Young female students are standing in front of Mott Hall and the Power Plant building. They are from Pollard Hall, which was a co-educational dormitory. Names written on the back of the photo read: "Hauwiller, Weisenhaus, E. Miers, Skari, Weeks, Hanson Sophie, Rockman, Clark, DeVries, G. Richie, Cook, Kniefel, Simonson, V. Richie, and Magnuson." The student in the front row on the right end is Virginia Richie (later Ricci), and the student in the front row, third from the right, is her sister Gloria Richie.
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Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf Alumni Association Museum
Three older male students are sitting in a dormitory room, reading books at a table. The room is decorated with many small pictures, with most of them depicting individual people.
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Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf Alumni Association Museum
Young students are seated in the Pollard Hall dining room. Housemothers standing in the back row, from left to right, are Celia Wilson (served 1941-1943), Florence Schow (served 1936-1943), and Muriel Young (served 1936-1966).
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Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf Alumni Association Museum
Older male students are assembled outside in a group. Most of the students are smiling, and some are pointing at themselves or at others. Two students in front are signing the same word or concept. Several interpretations of the sign are possible, including "sweethearts," "romance," and "challenge."
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf Alumni Association Museum
Superintendent James N. Tate is seated at his rolltop desk in his office at the Minnesota School for the Deaf. A candlestick phone is visible in the background.
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Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf Alumni Association Museum
Four teachers who are also alumni of the Minnesota Institute for Defectives (Deaf, Blind and Feeble-Minded) pose for a portrait. From left to right, they are John Doheny (who attended during 1885-1894), Louis Albert Roth (who attended during 1881-1891 and was a housefather during 1899-1902 and a graphics arts instructor during 1902-1937), Mr. Byrne, and George A. Harmon (who attended during 1863-1870 and was a coopering instructor during 1886-1889).
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Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf Alumni Association Museum
Students in writing class. The teacher standing in back on the right is James L. Smith. The photo hanging in the middle of the wall in the back is of Calvin Coolidge, President of the United States.
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Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf Alumni Association Museum