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National Deaf History Month is March 13th to April 15th

Deaf Persons

Photograph of Helen Keller smelling a rose while holding a braille book in her lap.

Photograph of a boy learning typesetting in 1917 at a vocational school for the Deaf

Photograph of a print from an engraving of Deaf Artist Albert Newsam

1880 photograph of two children standing at attention in a formal portrait from an Ottoman Empire school for the deaf.

Head shot of Helene Jarmer, the third culturally Deaf person in world history to be elected to a national parliament (Austria)

'Helene Jarmer, Vienna Night Run 2009', by Manfred Werner (Tsui) is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.

Photograph portrait of Andrew Foster, the first African American to attend and graduate from Gallaudet and known as 'Father of Deaf Education in Africa' due to his missionary work there.

Deaf American Missionary/Educator Andrew Foster

'Marlee Matlin' by Barry Talesnick for Go NYC Magazine, is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

Photograph of Model/Producer/Wrter Nyle DiMarco

Nyle DiMarco by Heather Pons, for the New York Times.

Last Updated: Aug 22, 2025 10:09 AM
URL: https://library.framingham.edu/national-deaf-history-month
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Subjects: World Languages

Tags: asl, deaf, deaf culture, Deaf history, sign language, signing