The Virginia Association of the Deaf Records

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: MSS184

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

The collection of the Virginia Association of the Deaf consists of approximately 8,500 pages of correspondence, minutes, constitution and by-laws, financial reports, program books, brochures, directories, certificates, flyers, newspaper clippings, and photographs. The bulk of the collection dates from 1912 to 2001. The largest collections are correspondence files which span the years between 1934 and 1993 concerning the affairs of the organization. The collection contains newspaper clippings concerning the controversy of the selection of a superintendent of the Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind. Also included in this collection are the files of the Virginia Council for the Deaf and the Auld Lang Syne Alumni Association of the Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind.

Dates

Creation: 1912 - 2001

Biographical / Historical

The Virginia Association of the Deaf was formed during the first meeting that was held in the old chapel of the Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind in Staunton, Virginia, on June 11, 1884. John Walter Michaels, a deaf leader, was the founder and Rev. Job Turner, a deaf missionary, was the first president of the Virginia Association of the Deaf. For more information on the history of the association, please refer to Box 9, Folder 8 “History of the V. A. D.” in the collection of the Virginia Association of the Deaf.

Extent

6 Linear Feet (1 oversized box, 9 document cases)

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

This collection describes the history of the Virginia Association of the Deaf. Included in the collection are correspondence, meeting minutes, financial reports, program books, constitutions and by laws, periodicals, newspaper clippings, and photographs.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Donated to Archives by Fred Yates, June 2000.

Related Materials

Deaf Film

Picnics: Maryland Association of the Deaf at Baltimore, Virginia Association of the Deaf, Frat # 47- Outing, 50th Anniversary of Maryland Association of Deaf and Tolchester Beach [motion picture] 1926-1927, 1948. Deaf Film 5-16

Deaf Rare

Alumni Association of the Virginia School for the Deaf: at V.S.D.B., Staunton, Virginia, June 6, 7, 8, 1940