This display is in celebration of Deaf-Blind Awareness. Laura Dewey Bridgman (1829-1889) was known as the first deaf-blind American woman who gained an important education fifty years before the more famous Helen Keller. This wax figurative was created by Don Baer of DeafWax Studio, based in San Francisco.
Exhibition: June 1 through July 10, 2009,Main Library, Deaf Services Center, 1st floor, 100 Larkin Street (at Grove)
