This is a photo of Henry Peters, teacher, instructing a class of one boy and five girls. He is standing at a table holding a book and pointer. The pupils are sitting at three desks. Behind them are a blackboard, a large map and pictures. Pupils were trained lip-readers and had to watch the teacher's lips very closely. In their work the school followed the program laid down for the seven years of public school. This work was covered by these handicapped pupils in nine years.
This is a photo of a group of people standing on the steps of a long building and a team of horses with buggy and coachman. The coachman, Johann Riediger, is about to take the "housefather", Jacob F. Funk, on some business trip. Behind Funk stands his wife and at his side their two daughters. The man with the beard is Jakob Janzen, the treasurer of the institution, and the four females are maids employed here.
This is a photo of four pupils, two girls and two boys, and their teacher Abram Wiebe in a classroom. Deaf and dumb pupils are taught to form sounds. Abram Wiebe is resting his fingers on the pupil's larynx and chin and often guides the tongue. It usually took several months of instruction to teach these children the ABC in the proper tonal pitch because they could not hear what they were saying.
This is a photo of pupils in the playground at the Marien Deaf and Dumb School. Two boys are pulling a wagon and some of the children are on a see-saw. Some are just standing about. If weather permitted the children would go on extended walks under proper supervision.
