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Samuel Gridley Howe
Samuel Gridley Howe
American educator
Helen Keller, at age 66
Helen Keller
American author and educator
Laura Bridgman, 1878.
Laura Dewey Bridgman
American educator
Anne Sullivan and Helen Keller
Anne Sullivan
American educator
Edouard Séguin
American psychiatrist
Edward Miner Gallaudet
American educator and administrator
William Moon
British activist
Samuel Heinicke
German educator
Louis Braille
Louis Braille
French educator
Caroline Yale, 1927.
Caroline Yale
American educator
Jean-Marc-Gaspard Itard
French physician
Harriet Burbank Rogers
American educator
sculpture of Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Alice Cogswell
Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet
American educator
Ovide Decroly
Belgian educator
Juan Pablo Bonet
Spanish educator
Roch-Ambroise Cucurron, Abbé Sicard
French abbot
Ponce de León, Pedro
Pedro Ponce de León
Spanish Benedictine monk
Mary Garrett
American educator
Emma Garrett
American educator
Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Bell
American inventor