Series 7: Records of Deaf Organizations, 1973 - 1990

Series — Box: MSS209.3

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Records on Dr. Sonnenstrahl’s involvement in DC-area deaf organizations. In particular, this series covers Dr. Sonnenstrahl’s work at the National Center for Law and the Deaf, where she was director of the Deaf Consumer Education Pilot Project (DCEPP) in the late 1970s.

Also includes some material from the 1979 Maryland Association of the Deaf (MDAD) convention in Ocean City and programs from deaf beauty pageants – some that Dr. Sonnenstrahl served as a judge for, and some that her daughter, Beth, competed in.

Dates

Creation: 1973 - 1990

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is open to the public with no restrictions.

Photocopies may be made for scholarly research. Note that some of the scrapbooks in series 7 are extremely fragile and must be handled with great care; these may only be copied at the discretion of the Archives staff.