Human curiosity prints, playbills, broadsides and other printed material, 1695-1937.

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Human curiosity prints, playbills, broadsides and other printed material, 1695-1937.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/767961803

The collection consists of images, chiefly prints, but also some photographs; broadsides and playbills of shows; and other materials concerning human curiosities. Most of the human curiosities are medical anomalies, giants, dwarfs, etc., such as Józef Borusławski and Patrick Cotter, but collection also contains images of people known for unusual activities or feats, such as Captain Robert Barclay, who walked 1000 miles in 1000 days; André Garnerin, inventor of the frameless parachute; and Laura Dewey Bridgman, an educated deaf-blind woman.

1 box (1 linear ft.)

eng,

fre,

Houghton Library

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Houghton Library

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Bridgman, Laura Dewey, 1829-1889

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6q34phw (person)

Laura Dewey Lynn Bridgman (b. December 21, 1829, Hanover, New Hampshire-d. May 24, 1889, Boston, Massachusetts), known as the first deaf-blind American child to gain a significant education in the English language, fifty years before the more famous Helen Keller. Bridgman was left deaf-blind at the age of two after contracting scarlet fever. She was educated at the Perkins Institution for the Blind where, under the direction of Samuel Gridley Howe, she learned to read and communicate using Brail...

Barclay, Captain (Robert), 1779-1854

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6db9671 (person)

Cotter, Patrick, 1759 or 1760-1806

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6t73pdg (person)

Garnerin, André Jacques, 1769-1823

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6v99f2c (person)

Borusławski, Józef, 1739-1837

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w69038v8 (person)