National Gazette Literary Register

Newspaper

Accession Number: 2001.205

Summary/Description: The four-page issue contains a brief article on page 1, column 2, under the heading "Philadelphia: Monday, June 30, 1828," that reports a meeting between the "venerable ex-president, Mr. Monroe" and a student of the Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf and Dumb. The article notes that "Signal and perpetual credit will accrue to Philadelphia, if she should be the first to found on this continent a well regulated, comprehensive Asylum and School for the Blind."

Publisher: William Fry

Publisher Place: Philadelphia

Publish Date: July 1, 1828

Subjects: Schools for the blind and visually impaired Noted individuals.

Physical Description: 4 p. ; 20 x 13 in. Vol. 9, no. 1133