A meeting to discuss the future of the ADDA.

Newspaper summary of the congress.

Rules of the Australasian Deaf and Dumb Association.

Logo of the Australasian Deaf and Dumb Association.

All deaf speakers and familiar topics.

Etching by John Carmichael.

At Blackburn, Victoria

Page 7 shows a small advertisement for “Deaf and Dumb Institution”, intended for children and adults.

NSW Institution for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind

On deaf education and in support of the opening of a deaf school in Melbourne.

Premier Askin laid the foundation stone and Dot Shaw made a speech.

Research completed in 2013.

Samuel Showell officiated at the wedding of Leslie Watts and Edith Morey

Circa 1932.

The act that forced the closure of the NSW Association of Deaf and Dumb Citizens.

Leader in the Deaf Community in Queensland and nationally.

This article details the angry meeting held at 5 Elizabeth St Sydney following the dismissal of Herbert Hersee.

On 23 May the Sydney Morning Herald recorded the establishment of “a new society”.

Wild scenes at the Deaf Society AGM.

Queensland breakaway association founded.

Leader in the NSW breakaway association.

Ernest Quinnel was one of the leaders of the NSW breakaway association.

The Deaf Writers’ Group’s first publication

Leading deaf woman in the early 20th Century.

Old Baily trial record 1818

Old Baily trial record 1827

Old Baily trial record 1787

Early Deaf Theatre

1933

1935

This event, run by the Queensland Schools for the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind, was a mixture of sports event, fundraising opportunity, and awareness-raising exercise.

1936

A 1916 newspaper clipping

Deaf organisation senior staff group photo. Willie Hately is in the middle row, on the far left.

Tennis/Social group photo – Willie Hately is in the back row.

Social group photo with Willie Hately front and centre.

Cricket group photo with Willie Hately on the floor to the left

Cricket group photo – Willie Hately is seated to the left, holding a cricket bat.

1822 attempt to plead for freedom

1843 ticket of leave

Pariotism in living statue form

Female Performers Group

Image from the State Library of Victoria, Victorian Deaf Society collection.

Interstate Adult Deaf & Dumb Picnic in NSW

ADDSV Group Photo

The second annual report of the Australian Association for the Advancement of the Deaf.

The March/April 1909 issue of the Victorian magazine, The Gesture.