Advertisement for the Minnesota State Institution for the Education of the Deaf & Dumb, and the Blind. A picture of Mott Hall is shown. Two printed slogans read: "An education and a trade free!" and "From dependence to self-support!" A reproduction of the American fingerspelled alphabet is also printed under the title "Alphabet of the deaf and dumb."
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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.
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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.
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Students from the graduation class of 1892 and staff are assembled in front of Mott Hall. The man seated in the center of the front row is Superintendent Jonathan Lovejoy Noyes. The man with a mustache in the last row, second from the left, is Dr. James L. Smith.
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Students from the graduation class of 1893 and staff are assembled in front of Mott Hall. In the front row, from left to right, are Blanche Wilkins (later Williams), Peter N. Peterson, Edith Vandegrift, Superintendent Jonathan Lovejoy Noyes, and Martha Larntson. In the back row, from left to right, are Dr. James L. Smith, Mary Patenaude, George Renkes, and an unknown male student.
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Students from the Class of 1937 are assembled on the campus lawn at the Minnesota School for the Deaf. The front row of female students are, from left to right, Vietta Gardner, Gertrude VanDruten, Agney Haley, Genevieve Holt, Lydia Simola, Sigrid Swanson, Lempi Niemela, Marie Seebach, Josephine Smith, Cecile Grenier, Maryann Delaney, Ruth Johnson, Ellen Leinonen, Sheba Latz, Rose or Ethel Blinderman (twin sisters), and Rose or Ethel Blinderman (twin sisters). The back row of male students are, from left to right, Dennis Anderson, Orval Jefferson, Fred Schnabel, Clair Test, Waino Ranta, Joe Myklebust, Victor Lee, Daniel Manuel, Theodore Stawikoski, Adolph Svoboda, and Uno Sandvick.
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Students from the Class of 1924 and staff are assembled for a portrait. In the front row, from left to right, are Rena Gephart, Superintendent Elwood A. Stevenson, Dr. James L. Smith, and Ella Waswo. In the back row, from left to right, are Edna Erickson, Norman Larson, Mildred Saunders, Anthony Zupancic, and Myrtle Nelson.
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Students from the Class of 1903 and staff are assembled for a portrait. In the front row, from left to right, are Mary E. Nelson, Ida C. Carlson, Superintendent James N. Tate, Jenny Mortenson, Minnie Hauberg, and Mabel A. Newton. In the middle row, from left to right, are Dean E. Tomlinson, Oscar W. Johnson, Dr. James L. Smith, Mr. White, Albin J. Highberg, and John H. McFarlane. In the back row, from left to right, are Emil Hruska, Harrison A. Pettit, and Fred G. McNabb.
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Students in the first oral education class are assembled with a teacher in a classroom. The student sitting in the front row on the left end is Petra Fandrem Howard. The phrase "First Oral Class, 1906" is written on the blackboard in the background.
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Students in the first oral education class are assembled with a teacher in front of Noyes Hall. The student standing in the middle of the back row is Petra Fandrem Howard. The students in the back row, from left to right, are fingerspelling "F-I-R-S-T" for the word "first." The students in the front row, from left to right, are fingerspelling "O-R-A-L-0-6" for the word "oral" and year "1906."
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Students and staff are standing in front of the first school building that was used as a temporary home for the Minnesota Institute for the Education of the Deaf and Dumb. One of the school's founders, Judge Rodney A. Mott, rented Major Fowler's store on what is now the corner of Division and Central Avenue in Faribault, and the school opened in this temporary home on September 9, 1863. This building was used during 1863-1868, and the school's name changed to "Minnesota Institute for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind" during this time.
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Students and staff are standing in front of the first school building that was used as a temporary home for the Minnesota Institute for the Education of the Deaf and Dumb. One of the school's founders, Judge Rodney A. Mott, rented Major Fowler's store on what is now the corner of Division and Central Avenue in Faribault, and the school opened in this temporary home on September 9, 1863. This building was used during 1863-1868, and the school's name changed to "Minnesota Institute for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind" during this time.
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Students in the Senior Class of 1926 perform a Gallaudet Day program in the auditorium of Noyes Hall. Two students in the center are posing as the famous American statue of Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Alice Cogswell. Gallaudet was the founder of the American School for the Deaf, and Alice Cogswell was a student there. Both students are fingerspelling the letter "A" for the name "Alice."
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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 the 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. He is shown standing in front of his house in Faribault, which is believed to have been on Fifth Street and was one block from the campus of the Minnesota School for the Deaf.
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Minnesota State Fair exhibition booth with art and handcraft works done by Minnesota School for the Deaf students. A sign in the middle of the booth reads: "School for the Deaf Faribault, Minn." Works on display include printings, drawings, paintings, clothing, embroidery and lacework, shoes, furniture and woodwork.
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Minnesota State Fair exhibition booth with art and handcraft works done by Minnesota School for the Deaf students. Works on display include printings, embroidery and lacework, furniture and woodwork.
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Students are seated outside around a table for a traditional senior graduation dinner at the home of teacher Dr. James L. Smith and his wife. Dr. Smith is seated at the left of the table, and Thilda P. Smith is standing in back.
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Six older female students are carrying luggage in preparation for the trip home for the summer. The date written on the back of the photo reads: "1910 on May 30".
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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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Mott Hall served as a school building for both dormitories and classrooms. The text at the bottom of the photo reads: "J. L. Noyes, Superintendent, Minnesota School for the Deaf, Faribault, Minnesota."
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Male students are standing on the left in front of the South Wing, and female students are standing on the right in front of the North Wing. The North and South Wings of Mott Hall served as the first permanent buildings for classrooms and dormitories during 1874-1879. The North Wing was the first to be occupied on March 17, 1868, and the South Wing was occupied in the fall of 1873. The two wings were almost exact counterparts, and were connected by a covered passageway on the first floor level.
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Dr. Jonathan Lovejoy Noyes was the second superintendent of the Minnesota Institute for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind, and served during 1866-1896. His signature is printed as "J.L. Noyes" in cursive script below the picture. The school's name changed from "Minnesota Institute for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind" to "Minnesota Institute for Defectives (Deaf, Blind, and Feeble-Minded)" during his administration.
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Elwood A. Stevenson was the fourth superintendent of the Minnesota School for the Deaf, and served during 1924-1928. He was the hearing son of deaf parents, and his wife, Edith Stevenson, was also a hearing CODA (child of deaf adults). He studied at Gallaudet College to become a teacher of the deaf.
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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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Howard M. Quigley was the seventh superintendent of the Minnesota School for the Deaf, and served during 1945-1966. He obtained a M.A. degree from the Normal Department at Gallaudet College.
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James N. Tate was the third superintendent of the Minnesota School for the Deaf, and served during 1896-1923. The school's name changed from "Minnesota Institute for Defectives (Deaf, Blind, and Feeble-Minded)" to "Minnesota School for the Deaf" during his administration. The school's Tate Hall was named after him while he was still working at the school, and he resided in its south wing until his death.
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Judge Rodney A. Mott served as the Secretary of the Board of Directors during 1863-1902. Judge Mott's handwriting on the photo reads: "First appointed March 4th 1863" and "R. A. Mott Sect'y Dec. 25th 1890." The school's name changed three times during his time of service, from "Minnesota Institute for the Education of the Deaf and Dumb" to "Minnesota Institute for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind," and then to "Minnesota Institute for Defectives (Deaf, Blind and Feeble-Minded)," and then to "Minnesota School for the Deaf."
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Leonard M. Elstad was the sixth superintendent of the Minnesota School for the Deaf, and served during 1932-1945. He attended St. Olaf College and then obtained a M.A. degree from the Normal Department at Gallaudet College. He also taught at Gallaudet College.
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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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Roswell H. Kinney was the first superintendent of the Minnesota Institute for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind, and served during 1863-1866. He was present when the school opened on September 9, 1863. The school's name changed from "Minnesota Institute for the Education of the Deaf and Dumb" to "Minnesota Institute for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind" during his administration.
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Victor O. Skyberg was the fifth superintendent of the Minnesota School for the Deaf, and served during 1928-1932. He attended St. Olaf College where it is said that he met a deaf student there. He then obtained a M.A. degree from the Normal Department at Gallaudet College. He also taught at Gallaudet College.
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The school hospital was originally called the Infirmary. It was constructed in 1894, and was the only building on campus designed by the deaf architect, Olof Hanson. The infirmary was previously in the North Wing of Mott Hall, but it was moved to an isolated location for health safety reasons. It provided separate wards for ordinary and contagious patients. It was razed in the summer of 1973.
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The school hospital of the Minnesota School for the Deaf in Faribault, Minnesota, was originally called the Infirmary. It was constructed in 1894, and was the only building on campus designed by the deaf architect, Olof Hanson. The infirmary was previously in the North Wing of Mott Hall, but it was moved to an isolated location for health safety reasons. It provided separate wards for ordinary and contagious patients. It was razed in the summer of 1973.
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The school hospital of the Minnesota School for the Deaf in Faribault, Minnesota, was originally called the Infirmary. It was constructed in 1894, and was the only building on campus designed by the deaf architect, Olof Hanson. The infirmary was previously in the North Wing of Mott Hall, but it was moved to an isolated location for health safety reasons. It provided separate wards for ordinary and contagious patients. It was razed in the summer of 1973.
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The school hospital of the Minnesota School for the Deaf in Faribault, Minnesota, was originally called the Infirmary. It was constructed in 1894, and was the only building on campus designed by the deaf architect, Olof Hanson. The infirmary was previously in the North Wing of Mott Hall, but it was moved to an isolated location for health safety reasons. It provided separate wards for ordinary and contagious patients. It was razed in the summer of 1973.
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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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Staff and students are assembled in front of Tate Hall. The male students are in military uniforms. The man in a dark suit and tie sitting in the third row on the right end is Louis C. Tuck. The man sitting in the third row, fourth from the left end, is Louis Albert Roth. Sitting to the right of Louis Albert Roth are one unknown man, Victor R. Spence, Wesley Lauritsen, Peter N. Peterson, three unknown people, Thilda P. Smith, Dr. James L. Smith, Edith Stevenson, and Superintendent Elwood A. Stevenson.
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Staff and students are assembled in front of Tate Hall. The male students are in military uniforms. The student sitting on the ground in the first row, fifth from the left, is John Mathews. The student sitting in the second row on the left end is Frank Turk. The man standing in the seventh row on the left end is Don Padden. The man standing in the fifth row, fifteenth from the left, is Norman Oja. The man sitting with his daughter on his lap in the center of the third row is Superintendent Leonard M. Elstad. Sitting to the right of Superintendent Elstad are Mr. Farrar, Mildred Duggan, Lloyd Ambrosen, Clarence Sommer, Carl Smith, unknown woman, Elizabeth Heine, Ms. Kleiner, Lewis Backstrom, Fern Hatfield, Paul Koring, Mr. Klement, Mr. Cook, unknown woman, Ms. Sauser, unknown woman, Ms. Fink, unknown woman, Opal Coffman, and Clara Flom. Sitting to the left of Superintendent Elstad are Josephine Quinn, Edith Elstad, unknown man, Chester Dobson, Hannah Meyer, Elizabeth Sommer, Herbert Sellner, Edwin Johnson, Victor R. Spence, Byron B. Burnes, Wesley Lauritsen, Harriet Harrell, Elizabeth Petteys, unknown woman, Mrs. Carl Smith, Ms. Myklebust, Ms. Oaks, Mary Bowen, Ms. Towler, Martha Peterson, Elizabeth Day, Muriel Young, unknown woman, and Frank Kohlroser.
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Staff and students are assembled in front of Mott Hall. The man with a hat and a white beard standing in the back row, just left of center, is Superintendent James N. Tate. In the background, from left to right, are Mott Hall and the Power Plant building.
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Staff and students are assembled in front of the north wing of Tate Hall. The male students are in military uniforms. The man with a hat and a white beard sitting in the center of the second row is Superintendent James N. Tate. The man standing in the second row, to the left of Superintendent Tate, is Dr. James L. Smith. The woman seated in front of Dr. James L. Smith is Thilda P. Smith. Standing behind Dr. James L. Smith is Louis Albert Roth. Standing behind Louis Albert Roth is Peter N. Peterson. The man standing in the third row, to the right of Superintendent Tate, is John Schwirtz. The seventh person sitting to the right of Superintendent Tate (in the same row) is Wesley Lauritsen. The man with a white beard standing behind and just to the left of Wesley Lauristen is Louis C. Tuck. The man standing in the back row on the left end is Edward Frechette.
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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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Staff are sitting on the steps in front of Mott Hall. Numbers are written on the front of the photo, and corresponding names written on the back of the photo read: "1. Dr. J(ames) L. Noyes, 2. Fred C. Sheldon, 3. Mrs. A. R. Hull, matron, 4. Mr. Geo(rge) Wing, 5. Alice Noyes, 6. Mr. Carroll, 7. Miss Jeannie Cramer, 8. Mr. Downing, 9. Miss Pietrowski, 10. Mrs. Carroll, 11. Mrs. Geo(rge) Wing, 12. Miss Marion Wilson (later married to Fred C. Sheldon)." Two unidentified men are not staff members.
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Staff are assembled in front of Noyes Hall at the Minnesota School for the Deaf. The man sitting in the center of the second row is Superintendent Elwood A. Stevenson. The man standing in the third row on the left end is Dr. James L. Smith, and the woman to the right of Dr. Smith is Thilda P. Smith. The man standing in the fourth row, second from the right, is Wesley Lauritsen. The man standing in the fourth row on the right end is Louis C. Tuck. The man standing in the fourth row, fourth from the right, is Louis Albert Roth. The man standing in the fourth row, third from the left, is Peter N. Peterson. The man standing in the fourth row on the left end is Victor R. Spence.
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Staff are assembled in front of Mott Hall at the Minnesota School for the Deaf. The man sitting in the front row, third from the right, is John Schwirtz. The man standing in back on the far left end is Louis Albert Roth. The man standing in the second row, second from the left, is Dr. James L. Smith. The man with a white beard standing in the second row, fourth from the left, is Superintendent James N. Tate. The man standing to the right of and slightly in front of the man who is standing the farthest back in the center is Peter N. Peterson. The man standing to the right of and slightly in front of Peter N. Peterson is Victor R. Spence.
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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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Male students are carrying wooden posts and brooms, and waving caps and hats. They are standing in front of Barron Hall and on its balconies. Barron Hall was the boys' dormitory.
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Male students are carrying wooden posts and brooms, and waving caps and hats. They are standing in front of Barron Hall and on its balconies. Barron Hall was the boys' dormitory at the Minnesota School for the Deaf.
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Male students are assembled in front of Noyes Hall. Several students are fingerspelling the letter "I" near their chins and pointing at the camera. They may be signing the word "you."
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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."
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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."
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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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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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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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