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The question of sign-language and the utility of signs in the instruction of the deaf two papers

Alexander Graham Bell
A voice from the silence

Anna B. Bensel and Bishop Brent
Souvenir of the World’s Congress of Representative Deaf Mutes containing engravings of the World's Columbian Exposition Buildings : under the auspices of The Pas=a=Pas Club

Albert Berg
Reduction de las letras y arte para enseñar a [h]ablar los mudos

Juan Pablo Bonet
Au Congrès International de 1880 pour l’Amèlioration du Sort des Sourds-Muets notes au programme

C. Abbate Boselli
Deaf and dumb : or, The orphan protected. : an historical drama, in five acts

Jean Nicolas Bouilly
L'Abbé de l'Epée, founder of the first institution in Paris for the deaf and dumb : a dramatised tale founded on an historical fact

Jean Nicolas Bouilly
The lost heir; or, The Abbe de l’Epee. : an historical drama in three acts

Jean Nicolas Bouilly
Deaf and dumb, or The Abbe de l’Epee; an historical drama, founded upon very interesting facts

Jean Nicolas Bouilly and Laurent Clerc
The silent schools of kendall green

Sarita M. Brady
Chirologia: or the naturall language of the hand. Composed of the speaking motions, and discoursing gestures thereof. Whereunto is added Chironomia: or, the art of manuall rhetoricke. Consisting of the naturall expressions, digested by art in the hand, as the chiefest instrument of eloquence, by historicall manifesto’s, exemplified out of the authentique registers of common life, and civill conversation. With types, or chyrograms: a long-wish’d for illustration of this argument.

John Bulwer
Philocophus, Or, The Deafe And Dumbe Mans Friend : Exhibiting The Philosophicall Verity Of That Subtile Art, Which May Inable One With An Observant Eie, To Heare What Any Man Speaks By The Moving Of His Lips ... Apparently Proving, That A Man Borne Deafe And Dumbe, May Be Taught To Heare The Sound Of Words With His Eie, & Thence Learne To Speake With His Tongue

John Bulwer
Tales of the deaf and dumb with miscellaneous poems

John R. Burnet
On the marriage and intermarriage of the deaf and dumb

David Buxton
Speech and lip-reading for the deaf. : a teacher’s testimony to the "German" system, a paper written for the International Congress at Milan, September, 1880

David Buxton
The census of the deaf and dumb in 1851

David Buxton
Memoranda for the use of architects in drawing plans for the institution for the deaf and dumb, and the blind.

California Institution for the Education of the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind
Secret memoirs of the late Mr. Duncan Campbel [sic], the famous deaf and dumb gentleman

Duncan Campbell
The Scratchsides family : a book for young people with illustrations by the author

John Carlin
The history of a blind deaf-mute girl

Charles Louis Carton
An address written by Mr. Clerc, and read by his request at a public examination of the pupils in the Connecticut Asylum before the governour and both sides of the Legislature, 28th of May 1818

Laurent Clerc
A message to the boards of management of schools for the deaf, and to all interested in promoting the education of the deaf in Europe

Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb
Proceedings of a convention of deaf mutes, holden at Montpelier, Vermont, February 23 and 24, 1853

Convention of Deaf Mutes and National Association of the Deaf
None so deaf as those who won't hear : a comedietta in one act

Herbert Pelham Curtis
Didascalocophus : or the deaf and dumb mans tutor, to which is added a discourse of the nature and number of double consonants: both which tracts being the first (for what the author knows) that have been published upon either of the subjects

George Dalgarno