Finding collections relating to d/Deaf, disabled and neurodiverse people

One of the aims of our project is to make collections relating to d/Deaf, disabled and neurodivergent people more visible – and to share some of the objects our Fellows and Trainees are discovering.

Some will have quite obvious connections to disabled people’s lives – a walking stick, some braille or images of disabled people. But we will also be exploring less obvious connections too. Sometimes the significance of an object is its owner; its part in a bigger story, or the way someone with lived experience of disability has responded to it. In this way we hope to broaden the ways that d/Deaf, disabled and neurodivergent stories are told.

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Title
Date
Artist

NETSUKE KNOWN AS "FUKUSUKE" (Sculpture)

1800 - 1820

LIVERPOOL CORPORATION TRAMWAYS PASS (Ticket)

ORWELL ROAD SCHOOL (Postcard)

Around 1910

COUNTY ASYLUM, WINWICK PHOTOGRAPH (Photograph)

1909

IVORY NETSUKE OF A SLEEPING MOTHER AND HER CHILD (Sculpture)

before 1939

WHEELCHAIR, CHILDREN'S REST SCHOOL OF RECOVERY (Wheelchair)

1920s

BRAILLE STYLUS (Stylus)

before 1918

ORWELL ROAD SPECIAL SCHOOL HANDICRAFT CLASS (Postcard)

1910 about

LEST WE FORGET. CAN YOU FIND THIS EX SERVICE MAN A JOB? IF NOT, PLEASE HELP HIM BY BUYING THIS CARD' (Card)

BILLY WALTERS FIGURINE (Ceramic figurine)

1840

TOWN HALL POOR BOX (Wooden 'poor box')

1858

GEORGE WOOD PHOTOGRAPH, MAN WITH ARTIFICIAL LEGS (Photograph)

1890s

GEORGE GRAHAM, MORNING OF CREATION (Painting: Morning of Creation by Georg Graham)

Painted over the period 1937-1939

CARSTAIR (Wicca wheelchair)

1900

EUGENICS TALK INVITATION (Paper invitation)

1914

CHILD'S WORKHOUSE BOOTS (Boots)

P & K ARM (Prosthetic arm)

1920

WILLIAM HENRY HUNT 'SKETCH OF A POLLING BOOTH' (Sketch)

ARTIFICIAL RIGHT ARM (Prosthesis)

1913

FRESH AIR FOR HEALTH POSTER (Railway Poster)

1937

THE SKEGNESS CURE (Painting)

1911

CAST IRON SIGN (Railway signage)

c.1910

GREEN TICKET ISSUING MACHINE (Railway ticket machine)

1928

EXPLORE THE HOME COUNTIES POSTER (Railway Poster)

1936

EAST COAST JOYS POSTER (Railway advertising poster)

1931

GEORGE WOOD PHOTOGRAPH, AMPUTEE SHOE POLISHER (Photograph)

1890s

PATIENT REGISTERS, CATHARINE HOUSE (Books)

GEORGE WOOD PHOTOGRAPH, MAN WITH A CRUTCH (Photograph)

1890s

ACOUSTIC HEADBAND (Hearing aid)

SIEMENS & HALSK HEARING AID (Hearing aid)

1930

STRAITJACKET (Straitjacket)

19th century

WILLIAM HENRY HUNT, INTERIOR OF WEST HILL VILLA (Painting)

1845

NEWTON BRAGGE SKETCH, SHIP PASSING THE ENGLISH CHANNEL (Sketch)

1800's

PORTRAIT OF GEORGE WOOD (Photograph)

1890s

PORTRAIT OF JOHN GOLDSWORTHY SHORTER (Painting)

LAPEL BADGE (Military badge)

1914-1918

RICE SPOON WITH HANDLE CARVED IN HUMAN FORM (Utensil)

before 1913

RECTANGULAR BRAILLE MAGAZINE TITLED 'NUGGETS' (Book)

1921

TREPANNING TOOL (Surgical Instrument)

before 1914

SPEKE HALL BATHCHAIR (Wheelchair)

About 1900

VICTORIAN OPTOMITREST SET (Optomitrest set)

OIL PAINTING OF ALFIE MERRYWEATHER (Oil painting)

1930

LYTHAM ST ANNES POSTER (Railway Poster)

1923

SNOWDON MOUNTAIN RAILWAY POSTER (Railway Poster)

c. 1930s


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