In Hale, S.J. Woman's record (Philadelphia, 1855), p. 592. "Illustrated by two hundred and thirty portraits engraved on wood by Lossing and Barritt.", Laura Bridgman, who lost all sense of hearing, sight, and smell after contracting smallpox in her early childhood, went on to become the first educated deaf-blind person. Aided by the patience and dedication of her teacher, Samuel Gridley Howe, she was able to learn to read, write, sign, and perform many other tasks., Other portraits appear in: The prisoner's friend, no. 3 (Nov., 1848), frontispiece; Phrenological and physiological almanac, for 1849 (New York, 1848), p. 40; Jones, A.D. The American portrait gallery (New York, 1855), p. [707]., Waist-length portrait of Bridgman, wearing an eye covering.
