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The cabinet card format was used by professional photographers for portraiture from the 1870s to the 1920s. It is larger than the similar carte de visite. These photographs are of people with a variety of physical disabilities. The last three cabinet cards in this volume -- Alfred Pilgrim, Uncle Frank Jeffrey's family, and an unnamed African American -- were purchased by the Historical Library in 2018 and added.

Photographs up to 8 x 10 on previously noted topics. There are also some publicity photographs from popular motion pictures. The volume ends with twelve stereoscopic photographs.

Pamphlets, mostly published by organizations helping the disabled. There are also some biographical accounts of individuals. The earliest is Happy Poverty: An Authentic History of Blind Ellen published in the 1820s by the American Tract Society.

Materials are similar to those in the previous volume. The 1863 item is a pamphlet on Tom Thumb. The ca. 1997 item is a poster on the Disability Project. Of note is a pamphlet, Glimpses of the Pan-American Exposition (1901) in the shape of a buffalo head.

Informal photographs of people with disabilities and their families or institutions.

Binder containing primarily "real photo post cards" of individuals in a wheelchair, either alone, with their family, or in a group. Real photo postcards were created from photos taken by individuals and developed on postcard stock. They date from 1900 to about 1930. Also included toward the back are some advertisements for wheelchairs in postcard format, some cartes de visite, and some later snapshots.

This binder contains photos of people with disabilities that might be found in family albums. Most of the items are real photo postcards.

The first part of this binder is on disabled veterans, especially from World War I, and the rehabilitation of veterans. The second part of the binder contains materials on charities for children with physical disabilities, poliomyelitis, cerebral palsy, muscular dystrophy, blindness and guide dogs, deafness, and sickle cell anemia (1 item). The volume contains real photo postcards, printed postcards, photographs, stamps issued by charities, and some pamphlets and other ephemera.

The section on "Begging" has postcards or ephemera that disabled people handed out to ask for charity.

"Merchants" contains (1) images of people with disabilities or dwarfs working in stores or offering products and services; and (2) merchants offering artificial limbs, wheelchairs, hearing aids, etc.