Teacher and deaf and blind student at the Indiana School for the Deaf, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1923
| Description: |
Jesse Walter Liston (1911-1937), a deaf and blind student at the Indiana School for the Deaf, is seen working with his teacher Miss Nettie Newell (left).Liston was born in Lake Cicott, Indiana and lived with his parents in Miami Township, Cass County during the census enumerations of 1920 and 1930. According to the book Those in the Dark Silence, (The Volta Bureau, 1930) p. 111-112, he was born deaf, blind, and without a sense of smell. He first came to the Indiana School for the Deaf in 1922 at age ten and his teacher Nettie Newell had no previous experience with the blind. |
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| Origin: | 1923 |
| Source: |
http://indianaalbum.pastperfectonline.com/photo/EC869367-F087-4C50-9BF6-993762302293 |
| Collection: |
Indiana Album |
| Rights: | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/ |
| Geography: |
1200 East 42nd Street, Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana, United States 39.833289,-86.136942 |
| Subjects: |
Indiana School for the Deaf Album Deaf persons Institutional care Teachers Blindness Classrooms Indiana School for the Deaf Indianapolis (Ind.) Marion County (Ind.) |
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