Laura Bridgman teaching Oliver Caswell to read, both being deaf, dumb and blind. – Vintage Wall Art
![Laura Bridgman teaching Oliver Caswell to read, both being deaf, dumb and blind., [no date recorded on caption card] — antique engraving](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/94/9409a3223bc8-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This rare antique engraving captures Laura Bridgman teaching Oliver Caswell to read, both being deaf, dumb and blind. in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Laura Bridgman teaching Oliver Caswell to read, both being deaf, dumb and blind.
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Two deaf-blind students at the Perkins School for the Blind in Boston are the focus here: Laura Bridgman, who learned language through touch under the school's director, Samuel Gridley Howe, and Oliver Caswell, a fellow pupil shown being taught to read. The engraving depicts a lesson in tactile communication, in which raised letters and hand signals stood in for sight and hearing. Bridgman's achievements drew wide public attention in the 1840s, and her story shaped popular ideas about how people without sight or hearing could be educated.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on caption card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : engraving. |
| Notes | This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: B.I.; Braille. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,136 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-156699 |
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