Students from the St. Rita's School for the Deaf,
Cincinnati, Ohio, 1918. Photograph by J.B. Schmidt.
National Archives, Image: 165-WW-77E-3.

—George Veditz, President,
National Association of the Deaf, 1910

"We have been called deaf-mutes, mutes, objects of charity, deaf and dumb, semi-mutes, dummy, and now, hearing impaired. We have been described as 'the most misunderstood among the sons of man.' Some of us are deaf and some of us are Deaf. Some of us use American Sign Language and some of us do not. This exhibition is our untold and largely unknown history. It is American history…Through Deaf Eyes."

—Jack R. Gannon
Curator, 2001

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Funding and Support

History through Deaf Eyes was made possible by a major grant from the

National Endowment For The Humanities

and generous support from:

• The Motorola Foundation
• The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
• SBC Foundation
• The Rockefeller Foundation
• BF Goodrich Foundation

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