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  • Deaf and dumb people from the Hackney Mission to the Deaf and Dumb performing plays, sign language, and portraits of staff at the institution. Wood engraving by J. Swain, 1884, after H. Morehen.
  • A vicar using sign language to the congregation at a service at a deaf and dumb church. Wood engraving after A.S. Hartick (?).
  • A Christmas entertainment, presented in sign language for the deaf and dumb, at the Hanover Square rooms, London. Wood engraving, 1865.
  • Two men entertain the deaf and dumb in sign language at the Freemason's Tavern. Wood engraving.
  • Two men performing a show to an audience at a public house, using sign language. Wood engraving, 1875.
  • Asylum for the deaf and dumb, Camberwell. Coloured engraving by J. Pass after himself, 1814.
  • Asylum for the deaf and dumb, Camberwell. Engraving, 1834.
  • Asylum for the deaf and dumb, Camberwell. Engraving by I.C. Varrall after himself, 1822.
  • Asylum for the deaf and dumb, Camberwell. Engraving, 1822.
  • Asylum for the deaf and dumb, Camberwell. Coloured etching, 1813.
  • Entertainment in sign language for the deaf and dumb at the Hanover Square rooms, London. Wood engraving.
  • Joseph Watson, and the Asylum for the deaf and dumb, Camberwell, in which he taught. Engraving.
  • Deaf actors using sign language perform a play about Don Guzman to an audience in St Saviour's church hall, London. Wood engraving by G. Durand, 1877.
  • The wedding ceremony of two deaf and dumb people conducted in sign language. Process print after H. Ash.
  • The anatomy of the human ear, illustrated by a series of engravings, of the natural size with a treatise on the diseases of that organ. The causes of deafness, and their proper treatment / By the late John Cunningham Saunders.
  • Census of Great Britain, 1851 : population tables.
  • Regent's Park, London: a charity fair for the Royal dispensary for diseases of the ear. Coloured lithograph by M. Gauci, 1832.
  • Christ cures a deaf man with his hands. Woodcut.
  • Queen Victoria using sign language to talk to Mrs B. Tuffield, a deaf mute woman. Process print after H. Ash.
  • People bewitched (?) by a tengu (Japanese mountain demon) Colour woodcut attributed to Kyōsai, 187-(?).