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Scope and Contents The collection of Robert O. Lankenau and the National Association of the Deaf is extremely broad, covering a wide range of subjects. The collection consists of correspondence, reports, letters, organizations-related papers, convention notes, and records from various Executive Board, Home Office Board, Officers, Committee, and General. The collection is broken up into seven series: Executive Secretary Administration; Junior National Association of the Deaf Administration; National Association...

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Papers of deaf educator and advocate Dr. Robert R. Davila, focused on his speeches and his work for the Department of Education.

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The Roy J. Stewart collection includes approximately 2,550 items. The majority of the papers are letter correspondence about old motion pictures. Also, there are postcards from all over the United States included in this collection.

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This collection consists of clippings, correspondence, program books, magazines and poems.

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Collection on segregation of African-American primary students, focusing particularly on the integration of Kendall School in the 1950s.

Scope and Contents Sarah Harvey Porter collection contains two boxes of notebooks with her handwriting. The collection, which consists of 26 notebooks, has no dates. The collection covers several subjects related to her research for Psychology of Deafness such as attention, bibliography, classes of the deaf, control processes in modified handwriting: an experimental study, desire, emotions, Galton’s Inquiries with Human Faculties, Imitation, Instincts and Tendencies, Professor Day’s language tests, Psychology...

Scope and Contents The Sharon Kay Wood papers consist of news clippings, Deaf periodicals, correspondence, notes, artwork, bibliographies, biographies, poetry, speeches, and booklets. The dates range from 1915 to 1989, with the bulk dating from 1987-1988. The majority of papers deal with Wood’s publication, “Deaf Women: A Parade Through the Decades.” There are biographies of dozens of different Deaf women throughout the United States. This collection gives the researcher a good idea of women’s role in the Deaf...

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Papers of deaf educator, author, actress, and feminist historian Sharon Kay Wood. Mostly research material and photographs from unpublished volume on biographies of deaf women.

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Records of the United States Deaf Skiers Association, a group dedicated to promoting amateur deaf skiing, as collected by founding member Dr. Simon J. Carmel. Includes correspondence, clippings, brochures, ephemera, and more.

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Collection of ephemera from early history of telephone assistive technology for the deaf.