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1 print : lithograph, with tint plate ; image 35.3 x 29.7 cm

Oliver Caswell and Laura Bridgman reading embossed letters from a book. Lithograph by W. Sharp, 1844, after A. Fisher.

The education of Laura Bridgman : first deaf and blind person to learn language / Ernest Freeberg.

<p>Presents a fictionalized account of the life and challenges of Laura Bridgman, the first deaf and blind woman to learn language, and those who helped her, including the founder of the Perkins Institute, with whom she was in love, and her beloved teacher.</p>

What is visible : a novel / Kimberly Elkins.

xx, 154 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : portraits (including frontispiece) ; 20 cm

Laura Bridgman : the story of an opened door / by Laura E. Richards; prefatory note by William H. Burnham.

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ACLS Humanities E-Book.

264 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 24 cm

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Oliver Caswell and Laura Bridgman reading embossed letters from a book. Lithograph by W. Sharp, 1844, after A. Fisher.

The education of Laura Bridgman : first deaf and blind person to learn language / Ernest Freeberg.

What is visible : a novel / Kimberly Elkins.

Laura Bridgman : the story of an opened door / by Laura E. Richards; prefatory note by William H. Burnham.

The education of Laura Bridgman : first deaf and blind person to learn language / Ernest Freeberg.

Anatomical observations on the brain and several sense-organs of the blind deaf-mute, Laura Dewey Bridgman ...

Latest particulars of the history of Laura Bridgman / compiled chiefly from the last report of the late S.G. Howe.

The imprisoned guest : Samuel Howe and Laura Bridgman, the original deaf-blind girl / Elisabeth Gitter.

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Oliver Caswell and Laura Bridgman reading embossed letters from a book. Lithograph by W. Sharp, 1844, after A. Fisher.

The education of Laura Bridgman : first deaf and blind person to learn language / Ernest Freeberg.

What is visible : a novel / Kimberly Elkins.

Laura Bridgman : the story of an opened door / by Laura E. Richards; prefatory note by William H. Burnham.

The education of Laura Bridgman : first deaf and blind person to learn language / Ernest Freeberg.

Anatomical observations on the brain and several sense-organs of the blind deaf-mute, Laura Dewey Bridgman ...

Latest particulars of the history of Laura Bridgman / compiled chiefly from the last report of the late S.G. Howe.

The imprisoned guest : Samuel Howe and Laura Bridgman, the original deaf-blind girl / Elisabeth Gitter.

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