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Class notebooks on biology from a Gallaudet graduate student.

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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.

Scope and Contents The Walter Goreth Durian Collection consists of partly personal mementos dating from 1885-1954. The majority of the papers date from the 1930s to the 1950s. The bulk of the collection consists of clippings, correspondence, diaries, and rough drafts.In the folder of newspaper clippings, one can find some articles dating from the late 1880s and there is one page from Silent World, issued on June 23, 1892. Durian’s diaries contain notes from Baseball scores and some notes about his...

Scope and Contents The collection contains meeting agendas, newspaper clippings, correspondence, financial reports, meeting minutes of the board and general meetings, memorandums, officer’s reports, objectives, press releases, and newsletters. The collection dates from 1978 to 1985, with the bulk of the papers dating from 1978 to 1982. The collection has numerous gaps due to the organization’s periodic inactivity. The bulk of the collection is correspondence regarding various bills for the deaf community and...

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The Washington Metropolitan Deaf Alliance was an organization that promoted and maintained the welfare of deaf citizens in the Washington Metropolitan area. This collection consists of articles, correspondence, lists, manuscripts, memorandums, minutes, newsletters, proposals, and reports.

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The Wesley Lauritsen collection consists of five boxes. Majority of the papers involves articles, clippings and letters that Lauritsen wrote. Also, there are information about his times at Gallaudet College and his awards that he received after. Also, there are documents about the organizations that he was involved with. Scrapbooks are also placed in this collection.

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Collection of photographs, books, artifacts, news clippings, and other items gathered by deaf writer and educator Willard J. Madsen.

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Collection of clippings, articles, essays, and printed materials related to Dr. William C. Stokoe and his work in the field of sign language linguistics.

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This collection consists of academic papers, articles, correspondence, booklets, minutes, reports, calendars, magazines, newspapers and newsletters, and journal reprint articles.

Scope and Contents The Wilson H. Grabill’s collection consists of two boxes. Most of the information is about his career and achievements. There are also some of his published works related to fertility in the population and his reports from the Census Bureau. Grabill visited England to present a paper at London for the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population and that information is involved in this collection about that time. There are also several letters in the collection. When Grabill...