Pneumatic Tubes at the Chicago Federal Building

A network of tunnels for pneumatic mail-transport tubes once buzzed with activity under the block now occupied by Chicago’s John C. Kluczynski Federal Building, Post Office, and Plaza. The post office housed in the old Chicago Federal Building, which ...

Hashems Nuts and Coffee Gallery

Hashems Nuts and Coffee sells produce and dry goods imported from Lebanon, exemplifying Dearborn Arabs' connection to their culinary heritage. Hashems is the only store on Warren Ave. that imports vegetable seeds and Arab greens, such as mulyukhiya (similar to ...

The American National Bank Building

Seville Tower, originally called the American National Bank Building, was designed by J.E.R. Carpenter in 1908 in the commercial style, is a product of a "boom" period in Pensacola's economy when local businessmen promoted the city as a potentialimport and ...

Sophia Fowler Gallaudet

Sophia Fowler was not the only deaf child in her family when she was born on March 20, 1798. She joined her older sister Parnel and left this home in Guildford to study at the American School for the ...

George Washington Lamb and Maria Bailey

Cabinetmaker

Maria Bailey and her sister Harriet were amongst the first students to attend the American School for the Deaf when it opened in 1817.  Even though they were already adults, at 20 and 18 years old respectively, they left ...

The Dillingham Siblings

Deaf Matrons and Teachers

Abigail Dillingham enrolled at the American School for the Deaf (ASD) as part of the first class in 1817. She was already 31 years old when she started school and graduated in 1821. ...

Laurette Goodrich Warriner

Supporting Her Family

Laurette Goodrich became deaf as a result of a childhood disease when she was a year old. When she was 10 years old she left her home in Chatham (now East Hampton) to attend school at the ...

Algot Anderson

Pioneer and Artist

Algot Anderson was a talented artist and a passionate supporter of the American School for the Deaf. Anderson was born on October 20, 1897 in Meriden. At the age of three, he and his ...

Gallaudet Family

One of American School for the Deaf’s Founding Families

Reverend Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, born December 10, 1787, met Dr. Mason Cogswell and his daughter Alice in the summer of 1814. Realizing that, although Alice was deaf, she ...