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Visual Histories and Arguments

People with intellectual disability at the Grahamstown Lunatic Asylum: humanizing photographs, stories and narratives from the casebooks, 1890–1920

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Pages 117-142 | Received 24 Feb 2023, Accepted 15 Jun 2023, Published online: 08 Aug 2023

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