Deaf heritage : a narrative history of deaf America / Jack R. Gannon ; edited by Jane Butler and Laura-Jean Gilbert ; layout by Rosalyn L. Gannon.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Washington, D.C. : Gallaudet University Press, Description: xxxiii, 483 pages : illustrations ; 28 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781563685149
  • 1563685140
  • 9781563685156
  • 1563685159
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 305.9/0820973 23
LOC classification:
  • HV2530 .G36 2011
NLM classification:
  • 2012 G-569
  • WV 11 AA1
Contents:
Dedication -- Foreword -- Preface to 2011 edition -- Acknowledgement -- Introduction -- Prologue : a journey begins -- Chronology -- The early years -- The 1880s -- The1890s -- Artists -- The 1900s -- The 1910s -- The 1920s -- Humor -- The 1930s -- The 1940s -- Publications of the deaf -- The 1950s -- Sports -- The 1960s -- American sign language : our natural language -- The 1970s -- The National Association of the Deaf.
Summary: Brings together the story of the deaf experience in America from a deaf perspective. This montage of artifacts and information documents the multifaceted history of deaf American life with its distinctive visual culture and forms a record of Deaf history from the early nineteenth century to the time of its original publication in 1981.
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Originally published: Silver Spring, Md. : National Association of the Deaf, 1981.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 449-462) and index.

Dedication -- Foreword -- Preface to 2011 edition -- Acknowledgement -- Introduction -- Prologue : a journey begins -- Chronology -- The early years -- The 1880s -- The1890s -- Artists -- The 1900s -- The 1910s -- The 1920s -- Humor -- The 1930s -- The 1940s -- Publications of the deaf -- The 1950s -- Sports -- The 1960s -- American sign language : our natural language -- The 1970s -- The National Association of the Deaf.

Brings together the story of the deaf experience in America from a deaf perspective. This montage of artifacts and information documents the multifaceted history of deaf American life with its distinctive visual culture and forms a record of Deaf history from the early nineteenth century to the time of its original publication in 1981.

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