Students in military uniform are marching in a parade on Central Avenue in Faribault on Patriot's Day. The photo title reads: "This picture represents part of our children as they appeared in the Patriot's Day Parade in Faribault, April 19, 1917." The text printed on the back reads: "The parents are expected to provide uniforms for their sons. Do not provide them with new citizen suits. These uniforms will not be any more expensive for the year than citizen suits. Our pupils are appearing before the public more and more often. They have been greatly praised for their improved appearance in uniforms. We will ask your son not to wear his uniform during the summer. Fold them up and put them away till he comes back to school in the fall. They will thus last him for a part of the coming school year."
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Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf Alumni Association Museum
Students in military uniform are marching in a parade on Central Avenue in Faribault on Patriot's Day. The photo title reads: "Deaf cadets in the parade."
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Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf Alumni Association Museum
Students are standing outside on Arbor Day. In the background is Tate Hall. The students are signing, and their signs look similar so they may be giving a performance.
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Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf Alumni Association Museum
Members of the audience for a mock wedding play are gathered in the auditorium of the Charles Thompson Memorial Hall. Such plays were held in honor of a couple's wedding anniversary.
Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence W. Hodgman are posing in farm clothing at the summer camp at Lake Darling. They were deaf friends of Charles Thompson, and Mr. Hodgman served as one of his secretaries. Many deaf people camped at Lake Darling during this time, and thus it was called a "deaf colony."
Members of the student musical band are assembled outside with tubas, trumpets, and drums arrayed in front of them. The words on one drum read: "Minnesota School for the Deaf Cadet Band." The male students are wearing military uniforms.
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Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf Alumni Association Museum
George Wing was a teacher at the Minnesota Institute for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind during 1872-1885. He developed Wing's Symbols, a system of symbols used for written language instruction at the school until 1976. The symbols followed the rules of grammar, and served to represent the functions of sentence parts. The portrait was part of a formal presentation to the school. The attached label reads: "George Wing, Inventor of 'Wing's Symbols', Teacher in this School, 1872-1885."
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Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf Alumni Association Museum
Louis C. Tuck (1851-1949) was a graduate of the American School for the Deaf in Connecticut where he studied under Laurent Clerc, and a graduate of National Deaf-Mute College (later renamed Gallaudet College) in 1870. He was a teacher and librarian at the Minnesota School for the Deaf during 1882-1922, and served as librarian until 1933.
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Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf Alumni Association Museum
Members of the men's Silents baseball team are posing at Nicollet Park in Minneapolis. Writing on the bottom of the photo reads: "City League 1920." The team was sponsored by the Charles Thompson Memorial Hall deaf club, and played in the St. Paul-Minneapolis City League. In the front row, from left to right, are unknown, Anthony (Tony) Garbarino, Karl Niklaus, John Langford, Harry Oelschlager, Sam Sagel, and a coach sitting on the ground (name unknown). In the back row, from left to right, are William Henneman, Paul Senkbeil, Russell Fretzer, Emil Rishavy, Walter Falmoe, Alby Peterson, William Wilczek, and Arthur Peterson.
Male students and a teacher in sloyd woodworking shop class. A note on the back of the photo reads: "Taken in Spring of 1901." The teacher standing in the back is Peter N. Peterson.
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Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf Alumni Association Museum
School staff members are standing in the printing office. Several large printing machines are present, and it is known that only staff members were allowed to use them.
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Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf Alumni Association Museum
Male students and staff members loading a school farm wagon with potatoes from a field. Two horses are harnessed to the wagon. Writing on the back of the photo reads: "Loading the wagon with potatoes."
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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
Eight female students in white dresses are posed on the lawn and holding crisscrossed ribbons as part of a rehearsal for a commencement ceremony performance.
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Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf Alumni Association Museum
Female students are sitting on a sled. The name written on the back of the photo reads: "Myklebust." This is probably Bertha Myklebust, who is known to have graduated in 1926.
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Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf Alumni Association Museum