Shown below are sample photos from each of the 6 assortments available. The note cards feature a 4x6 photograph on the front of a natural vellum card (5-1/8" x 7") with matching envelope. Inside is blank. Each photo is identified on the back of the notecard. Photos feature a matte finish, except where indicated.

Assortments consist of 12 cards and envelopes packaged in an attractive gold-foil box with a clear lid and gold elastic bowtie. A picture of a sample assortment box is shown below.

Caldera Press is proud to announce its first book publication:

What was it like to be one of the first women to attend Gallaudet College in the early 1900s? For two Gallaudet students to fall in love and marry at a time when Alexander Graham Bell’s argument against deaf persons marrying was still widely accepted?

Julia, born in 1897, was a saucy young girl who became deaf at the age of three but continued speaking and enjoying her Montana childhood until her mother died and an oppressive stepmother entered her life. When a teacher discovers Julia’s deafness, she is sent to the Montana School for the Deaf and Blind — a welcome respite from “Stepma’s” harsh treatment. Thus Julia’s delight when she subsequently wins a scholarship to Gallaudet College in Washington, D.C., the world’s only college for the deaf.

“When I got a chance to go to college at Washington, D.C., so far from home (Helena, Montana) I grabbed it. I had a wild time in college with so many boys rivaling for my attention --- especially your dad.”

So writes Julia many years later in a letter to her oldest daughter, Luella.

Philip, born in 1893, had already been at Gallaudet for three years when Julia arrived in 1916. Also deaf from early childhood disease before the 1900s, Philip had spent his childhood on the great plains of North Dakota, eldest son in a large family of German immigrants, and attended the North Dakota School for the Deaf.

Philip is smitten with Julia from the beginning and courts her for two years before their elopement causes a scandal at Gallaudet just days before Philip is to graduate. Julia’s diary tells part of the story. Photographs Philip took as campus photographer tell the story visually. Years later, Philip writes about it for their 50th anniversary celebration in 1968.

Gregarious and outgoing, Philip and Julia were at home in deaf communities wherever they lived and traveled—from Akron, Ohio, where they raised their own family of five children, to Southern California, where they retired in 1959.

Out of Their Silence captures Philip and Julia’s voices as they speak to us as young college students, parents, and grandparents. We also hear their daughter Lou’s voice as she experienced what it meant to be a child of deaf parents. These voices are enriched by over 100 photographs, many taken by Philip during his days at Gallaudet.