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.
Contributing Institution:
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."
Contributing Institution:
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.
Contributing Institution:
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.
Contributing Institution:
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.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf Alumni Association Museum