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    National Deaf Organisations

    Curator Dr Breda Carty introduces the largely forgotten history Australia’s early national deaf organisations.

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    1909 Deaf Leaders Series

    In 1909, the South Australian Deaf Monthly News published a series of articles on Deaf Community leaders from around the

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    1903 Congress in Melbourne

    Newspaper summary of the congress.

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    South Australian Deaf Monthly News 1909 Vol.4 No.7 – Excerpt

    An article on Samuel Showell.

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    Welcome to the Deaf History Collections

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