Collectors
Guest curator Donovan Cresdee describes growing up seeing collectors working for deaf organisations, and explains their role and their impact.
Here you can 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.
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.
1904
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.
This collector’s card was used by Mr. Emmanuel Solomon in South Australia in the late 19th or early 20th century.
1909, May
Emanuel Solomon
This article about Mr. E. B. Solomon gives us a good picture of a collector’s role and how they worked.
From the South Australian Monthly News 1909, Vol.4 No.9.
