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“Pencil drawing by Lizzie” from the book The Mind Unveiled; or, A brief history of twenty-two imbecile children, by Isaac N. Kerlin.

Title: “Pencil drawing by Lizzie” from the book The Mind Unveiled; or, A brief history of twenty-two imbecile children, by Isaac N. Kerlin.
Rights: William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan
Type: Image captured by Marguerite Happe (Clements Library) on March 18, 2022
Creator: Kerlin, Isaac N. (Isaac Newton)
Date: 1858
Description: Created by a deaf and semi-mute girl named Lizzie while a student at the Pennsylvania Training School for Feeble-Minded Children, this drawing illustrates how children continued to communicate with the world in the form of artistic expression. The drawing depicts a flower colored in pencil.
Format: book: xii, [1], 14-147 p., [7] leaves of plates : ill., ports. ; 19 cm
Language: English
Place: 19 cm
Publisher: Uriah Hunt & Son, publisher; Henry B Ashmead, printer
Contributor: “Lizzie,” Joseph Parrish
Identifier: Google Drive; https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FrVCfoifXEZiMndAb7OxRx5voaeHo2yi/view?usp=sharing
Relation: HathiTrust Digital Library: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.69015000007365&view=1up&seq=11&skin=2021; https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.69015000007365&view=1up&seq=11&skin=2021
Subject: Pennsylvania Training School for Feeble-Minded Children, exceptional children, children with mental disabilities, “imbeciles,” artwork
Temporal Coverage: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Source: University of Michigan Library catalog record