Gallaudet first day of issue envelopes

Dates

• Creation: 1983

Inventory

- West Harford Connecticut birthplace of Noah Webster site Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet postage stamp - Sketch of Thomas H. Gallaudet - Drawn outline of Connecticut with dot indicating location of West Hartford and text "Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet 1787-1851" - Stamped portrait of Gallaudet with text "First day cover Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet 1787-1851" - Stamped portrait of Gallaudet with text "United States First day cover Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet 1787-1851" - Color sketch of woman leaning back into a seated man with text "Gallaudet Memorial. Deafness is the partial or complete inability to hear. About 7 our of 100 children in the public schools cannot hear as well as they should. Ability to hear grows less with age. It has been said that one person out of every four in the United States cannot hear normally." - Sketch of woman leaning back into a seated man with text "Gallaudet College Alumni Association Alumni Office Kendall Green Washington, D.C. 20002" and a list of the board of directors. - Green colored sketch of Thomas Gallaudet with his name spelled out in ASL finger spelling - Diagram depicting a cross-section of an ear with a line indicating the oval window of the ear. Text reads "In honor of T. H. Gallaudet who pioneered the way past a "closed" oval window to hearing and understanding" - Text of Gallaudet's biography - Sketch of Gallaudet College and a bust of Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet. Text reads "Founder of the first U.S. School for Deaf. American Asylum for Deaf Mutes- 1816" - Sketch of Thomas Gallaudet and classroom of children. Text reads "Honoring Thomas H. Gallaudet Pioneer in the education of the hearing impaired. Great Americans Series- 1983"