Library Collections: Visual Still: Item Description

An institutional building, classical architechture with columns and stairs, sits on a hill with a tree-lined road leading to it, in a pastoral landscape.
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Title: "The Asylum For The Deaf And Dumb"
Original caption: The two systems of sign-language.
Creator: Jacob Abbott (author)
Date: 1856
Format: Illustration
Publication: The Gibralter Gallery
Publisher: Harper & Brothers
Source: American Antiquarian Society
Control no.: CL A132 H293 v8
Location: p. 147
Keywords: Architecture; Asylums; Deaf; Education; Health & Medicine; Institutions; Landscape; Mute; Schools
Topics: Institutions, Organizations & Corporations