User:Crocojim18

I live in Pittsburgh, PA, and am interested in preservation and digitalization!

My interests include sign languages, linguistics, computer science, and Pittsburgh history, among other things.

I proofread pages in my spare time.

Current Projects

 * Bassett's Scrap Book, Vols. 5 & 6, edited by (1907-1909)
 * The Sign Language: A Manual of Signs by J. Schuyler Long (1918)
 * The Condor, Vol. 9, No. 2, edited by (1907)
 * The Carnegie Institute and Library of Pittsburgh by (1916)

Pittsburgh

 * A Short Account of the Family of Ormsby of Pittsburgh by Oliver Ormsby Page (1892)
 * "Sketch of the 'Old Round Church,' 1805–1825" in The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 19, No. 3 by Oliver Ormsby Page (1895)
 * 1758, being a sketch of the founding of Pittsburgh by (1908)

Deaf Culture & Issues

 * "The Philology of the Sign-Language" by Elizabeth Peet (1921)
 * Gallaudet and his School by J. Schuyler Long (1912)
 * A sermon delivered at the opening of the Connecticut Asylum for the Education and Instruction of Deaf and Dumb Persons by Thomas Gallaudet (1817)
 * The Education of the Deaf and Dumb Practically Considered by Susanna E. Hull (1865)

Future Projects

 * "Education of the Deaf and Dumb" in The Catholic Encyclopedia, Vol. 5, by (1913) (Link)
 * The Birds' Convention by (1913)
 * Songs and Sonnets by Lawrence McDonald (1907)
 * The sermon preached at the farewell service in Old Trinity Church, Pittsburgh, PA, by (1869)
 * "The Deaf and Their Possibilities" by (1898)
 * An address at a public examination of the pupils in the Connecticut Asylum, by (1818)
 * "Classification of Iroquoian Radicals with Subjective Pronominal Prefixes" by (1915)
 * A letter to Dr. Benjamin Smith Barton, accompanying drawings and some account of certain articles, by Winthrop Sargent (1794)