Single and double hand alphabet
Publisher: C.A. Alvord, printer, 15 Vandewater Street, New York
Published: 1856
Place of publication: New York]
Language: eng
Subjects: American Sign Language; Deaf; Means of communication; Education; New-York Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb
Description: Illustrates two manual alphabets for the deaf and the deaf-blind; has prominent illustration of the "new Institution for the Deaf and the Dumb ... situated on the east side of the Hudson River, about nine miles from the City Hall, N.Y." as well as portraits and brief biographic information on the Abbe de L'Epee, and Laura Bridgeman [sic]; has instructional texts.
Notes: Date derived from the caption to the illustration which states that the building of the institution is new. According to the "Thirty-eighth annual report ... of the New-York Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb ... for the year 1856," which has a nearly identical illustration, it states on p. 13, "The great event of the year is the removal ... on the fourth of December last ... to the new buildings at Fanwood, on Washington Heights, about nine miles north of the City Hall."