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Collectors

Curator: Donovan Cresdee
Copyright Donovan Cresdee 2024. Used with permission.

Collectors

Guest curator Donovan Cresdee describes growing up seeing collectors working for deaf organisations, and explains their role and their impact.
Explore some of the notes and cards that collectors carried when they were working for Deaf Societies or schools, and other records showing the scope of their work.

SADDM Collector Note 3

This printed note, from the Superintendent and Hon. Secretary of the South Australian Deaf and Dumb Mission Mr Samuel Johnson, was carried by a deaf collector in the late 19th century. Note what it says about the role of the Deaf Mission at that time.

South Australian Deaf Community Collection (Deaf Connect).

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SADDM Collector Note 4

This printed note was carried by deaf collector Mr Eugene Salas in the late 19th century during his visit to a mining area in country South Australia.

South Australian Deaf Community Collection (Deaf Connect).

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SADDM Collector Note 2

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SADDM Collector Note 1

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1 Shilling Collector Card

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E. B. Solomon Collector Card

This collector’s card was used by Mr. Emmanuel Solomon in South Australia in the late 19th or early 20th century.

South Australian Deaf Community Collection (Deaf Connect).

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Read: South Australian Deaf Monthly News 1909 Vol.4 No.9 – Excerpt

This is an article about Deaf collector Mr. E. B. Solomon, from the South Australian Deaf Monthly News in 1909. It gives us a good picture of a collector’s role and how they worked.
South Australian Deaf Community Collection (Deaf Connect).

Ernest Quinnell’s Collector’s Card

This two-sided collector’s card was used by Mr Ernest Quinnell, collector for the NSW Association of Deaf and Dumb Citizens in the 1930s.

From the collection of Della Bampton. Used with permission.

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QADDS Collector Card

This four-page collector’s card was used by collectors for the Queensland Adult Deaf and Dumb Society in the mid-20th century.

Image courtesy of Breda Carty.

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