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• Booth, Edmund, 1810-1905

• Edmund Booth (1810-1905) Forty-Niner: The Life Story of a Deaf Pioneer, by Edmund Booth (HTML at LOC)

• Edmund Booth (1810-1905) Forty-Niner: The Life Story of a Deaf Pioneer, by Edmund Booth (HTML at LOC)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Silent Worker (partial serial archives)

• El Colegio Provincial de Sordo-Mudos y de Ciegos de Sevilla en la Exposición Universal de Paris de 1889: Memoria Relativa à su Historia, Organización, Regimen y Estado Actual, y Catalogo de los Objetos que Remite á Dicha Exposición (in Spanish; Seville: Im. del Colegio de Sordo-Mudos y de Ciegos, 1889), by Antonio Pichardo y Casado
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Standardization, Efficiency, Heredity: Schools for the Deaf (Indianapolis, IN: Burford, 1920), by Richard Otto Johnson (illustrated HTML at Indiana)
• Twelve Sermons: Delivered at Antioch College, by Horace Mann (page images at MOA)

• Straight Language for the Deaf: A System of Instruction for Deaf Children (9th printing; Washington: Volta Bureau, 1962), by Edith Fitzgerald (page images at HathiTrust)
• Simplified Signs: A Manual Sign-Communication System for Special Populations (2 volumes; Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2020), by John D. Bonvillian, Nicole Kissane Lee, Tracy T. Dooley, and Filip T. Loncke, illust. by Val Nelson-Metlay
  • Volume 1 (Principles, Background, and Application): multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers
  • Volume 2 (Simplified Sign Lexicon, Descriptions, and Memory Aids): multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers

• Love for a Deaf Rebel: Schizophrenia on Bowen Island (print, ebook, and audio editions; c2021), by Derrick King (multiple formats at archive.org)

• From Poor-House to Pulpit, or, The Triumphs of the Late Dr. John Kitto, From Boyhood to Manhood: A Book for Youth (Boston: E. O. Libby and Co.; New York: C. Scribner, 1859), by William M. Thayer (page images at HathiTrust)

• From Poor-House to Pulpit, or, The Triumphs of the Late Dr. John Kitto, From Boyhood to Manhood: A Book for Youth (Boston: E. O. Libby and Co.; New York: C. Scribner, 1859), by William M. Thayer (page images at HathiTrust)

• On the Legal Rights and Responsibilities of the Deaf and Dumb, by Harvey Prindle Peet (page images at MOA)

• Love for a Deaf Rebel: Schizophrenia on Bowen Island (print, ebook, and audio editions; c2021), by Derrick King (multiple formats at archive.org)

• American Annals of the Deaf (partial serial archives)
• The Silent Worker (partial serial archives)
• American Annals of the Deaf and Dumb (full serial archives)

• The Venture (Detroit: J. N. Williams, 1883), by Angeline A. Fuller (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Hearing Impairment and Elderly People (1986), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Hearing Impairment and Elderly People (1986), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Simplified Signs: A Manual Sign-Communication System for Special Populations (2 volumes; Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2020), by John D. Bonvillian, Nicole Kissane Lee, Tracy T. Dooley, and Filip T. Loncke, illust. by Val Nelson-Metlay
  • Volume 1 (Principles, Background, and Application): multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers
  • Volume 2 (Simplified Sign Lexicon, Descriptions, and Memory Aids): multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers

• Chirologia: or, The Naturall Language of the Hand Composed of the Speaking Motions, and Discoursing Gestures Thereofl Whereunto Is Added Chironomia, or, the Art of Manuall Rhetoricke, Consisting of the Naturall Expressions, Digested by Art In the Hand, as the Chiefest Instrument of Eloquence, By Historicall Manifesto's Exemplified Out of the Authentique Registers of Common Life and Civill Conversation; With Types, or Chyrograms, a Long-wish'd for Illustration of This Argument (London: Printed by T. Harper, 1644), by J. B.
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • HTML at EEBO TCP
• The Invited Alphabet: or, Address of A To B Containing His Friendly Proposal for the Amusement and Instruction of Good Children (London: B. Tabart and Co., 1809), by R. R., illust. by Charles Knight (page images at Princeton)

• Air Pictures (Sign Language) (New York: Camp Fire Outfitting Co., 1915), by Charlotte V. Gulick (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Collection of Gesture-Signs and Signals of the North American Indians: With Some Comparisons (Washington: G.P.O., 1880), by Garrick Mallery (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Introduction to the Study of Sign Language Among the North American Indians As Illustrating the Gesture Speech of Mankind (Washington: GPO, 1880), by Garrick Mallery
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Graphic Art of the Eskimos (Washington : G.P.O., 1897), by Walter James Hoffman (multiple formats at archive.org)

• A Comprehensive View of our Country and Its Resources (1876), by James D. McCabe (page images at MOA)

• River Basin Surveys Papers (partial serial archives)
• Prehistoric Pottery of the Eastern United States (looseleaf series from the Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan, 1950s), ed. by James B. Griffin (page images at HathiTrust)

• Tax Expenditures: The Hidden Entitlements (second edition; Washington: Citizens for Tax Justice, 1996), by Robert S. McIntyre (HTML and PDF at ctj.org)
• Financing of Aswan High Dam in Egypt: Hearing Before the Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate, Eighty-fourth Congress, Second Session. January 26, 1956 (Washington: GPO, 1956), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations (page images at HathiTrust)

• America the Vulnerable: Our Military Problems and How to Fix Them (Philadelphia: Foreign Policy Research Institute, ca. 2002), ed. by John F. Lehman and Harvey Sicherman (PDF with commentary at fpri.org)
• Conventional Coercion Across the Spectrum of Operations: The Utility of U.S. Military Forces in the Emerging Security Environment (Santa Monica, CA: Rand, 2002), by David E. Johnson, Karl P. Mueller, and William H. Taft (PDF files at rand.org)
• Hearings, Relating to H.R. 959, Amending the Internal Security Act of 1950 (Obstruction of Armed Forces) (Washington: GPO, 1969), by United States House Committee on Internal Security (page images at HathiTrust)

• Critics and Crusaders (New York: H. Holt and Co. c1948), by Charles Allan Madison (page images at HathiTrust)
• Critics and Crusaders: A Century of American Protest (New York: H. Holt and Co. c1947), by Charles Allan Madison (page images at HathiTrust)
• Champions of Democracy (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1936), by Joseph Cottler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pioneers of Freedom (New York: The Vanguard Press, 1929), by McAlister Coleman, contrib. by Norman Thomas (page images at HathiTrust)
• American Men of Action (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1913), by Burton Egbert Stevenson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Cambridge Sketches, by Frank Preston Stearns (Gutenberg text)
• Famous Americans of Recent Times (Boston: Fields, Osgood and Co., 1871), by James Parton (page images at MOA)
• The Gloved Hand: A Detective Story (1913), by Burton Egbert Stevenson, illust. by Thomas Fogarty (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made: or, The Struggles and Triumphs of Our Self-Made Men (Philadelphia et al.: G. Maclean, 1871), by James D. McCabe
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made: or, The Struggles and Triumphs of Our Self-Made Men (Cincinnati and Chicago: E. Hannaford and Co.; San Francisco: F. Dewing and Co., 1872), by James D. McCabe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Men of Our Day (Philadelphia et al.: Ziegler and McCurdy, c1872), by L. P. Brockett (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Men of Our Day (from the 1872 edition; preface and other supplementary material omitted), by L. P. Brockett (HTML with commentary at all-biographies.com)
• Men of our Times: or, Leading Patriots of the Day (Hartford: Hartford Pub. Co; et al., 1868), by Harriet Beecher Stowe (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• Modern Agitators: or, Pen Portraits of Living American Reformers, by D. W. Bartlett (page images at MOA)
• Pioneers of Progress (Chicago: T. A. Bland and Co., 1906), by T. A. Bland (HTML and page images at Indiana)
• With Americans of Past and Present Days, by J. J. Jusserand (HTML at Bartleby)
• The Compendium of American Genealogy (partial serial archives)
• Annie Nelles: or, The Life of a Book Agent (Cincinnati: The author, 1868), by Annie Nelles Dumond (page images at HathiTrust)
• Presidential Candidates: Containing Sketches, Biographical, Personal and Political, of Prominent Candidates for the Presidency in 1860, by D. W. Bartlett (page images at MOA)
• The Republican Court: or, American Society in the Days of Washington (New York and London: D. Appleton and Co., 1855), by Rufus W. Griswold (page images at HathiTrust)
• Something of Men I Have Known; With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective (second edition; Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Co., 1909), by Adlai E. Stevenson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • Gutenberg text
• The Star of the West, or, National Men and National Measures (first edition; Boston: J. French and Co.; New York: Miller, Orton and Mulligan, 1856), by Anna Ella Carroll (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Success Factor, by Fred Good (HTML at homestead.com)
• Twelve Men (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1919), by Theodore Dreiser (multiple formats at Indiana)
• The Biographical Review of Prominent Men and Women of the Day (c1888), by Thomas William Herringshaw (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Memories of Fifty Years: Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed With Scenes and Incidents Occuring During a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest (Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen and Haffelfinger; Macon, GA: J. W. Burke and Co., 1870), by W. H. Sparks (multiple formats at archive.org)
• An Account of the Captivity of Elizabeth Hanson, Now or Late of Kachecky, in New-England: Who, With Four of Her Children and Servant-maid, Was Taken Captive By the Indians, and Carried Into Canada (London: Printed and sold by Samuel Clark ... , 1760), by Elizabeth Hanson and Samuel Bownas (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 (all 17 volumes of Slave Narratives (pub. 1941), with additional material and commentary), by Federal Writers' Project (page images at LOC)
• The Life of Jacob Persinger, Who Was Taken by the Shawnee Indians When An Infant; With a Short Account of the Indian Troubles in Missouri, and a Sketch of the Adventures of the Author (reprint; originally published 1861), by Joseph Persinger (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Narrative of the Uncommon Sufferings, and Surprizing Deliverance of Briton Hammon, a Negro Man (Boston: Green and Russell, 1760), by Briton Hammon
  • HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • HTML at Evans TCP
• The Star of the West, or, National Men and National Measures (second edition; Boston: J. French and Co.; New York: Miller, Orton and Mulligan, 1857), by Anna Ella Carroll (multiple formats at archive.org)

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