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Lot 611
Sale 1095 - American Historical Ephemera & Photography, Featuring Property from the James Milgram, M.D., Collection of Broadsides, Ephemeral Americana & Historical Documents
Day 1 Lots 1-403
Nov 3, 2022
10:00AM ET
Day 2 Lots 404-634
Nov 4, 2022
10:00AM ET
Live / Cincinnati
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$813
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[EDUCATION]. Wisconsin Institute for the Charities of the Deaf and Dumb. Delavan, WI: Northron Print, July 1859.
10 7/8 x 17 in. printed broadside (small separations at original folds, some creasing); framed to 15 x 20 5/8 in. (not examined out of frame). Signed in type by J.S. Officer, Principal of the Institute.
An advertisement soliciting support for the Wisconsin Institute for the Education of the Deaf and Dumb featuring an engraving of the school after a photograph by H.R. Doane, surrounded by American Sign Language Handshapes of various letters.
The Institute was founded in 1852 with financial support from the Wisconsin state government and is still in operation as the Wisconsin School for the Deaf.
Property from the James Milgram, M.D., Collection of Broadsides, Ephemeral Americana, and Historical Documents