On photo mount label: D. C. French. Gallaudet and his first deaf mute pupil. Washington, D.C., Columbian Institution for the Deaf and Dumb. Gift of: Carnegie Corporation of New York. Classification number: 282/F873/758 2d copy. Accession: 17846. On second photo mount label: The Metropolitan Museum of Art/The Library/This Collection of Photographs/Desirable in the Study of Art/was assembled by/The Carnegie Corporation/of New York/and Presented to the Museum/in the Year 1930/(stamped:) 1761. On third and fourth photo mount labels (one on recto and one on verso): AMERICAN SCULPTURE/French, Daniel Chester (1850-)/Gallaudet/And His First Deaf Mute Pupil/1888/Bronze--Life-Size/WASHINGTON/COLUMBIAN INSTITUTION FOR DEAF MUTES.
1 photographic print : b&w, 9 7/8 x 7 3/4 in. (trimmed), mounted on 9 3/4 x 13 7/8 in. board.