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Monthly reports and papers written by Dr. Don Torr while working at Gallaudet’s Office of Educational Technology in the 1970s and early 1980s.

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Clippings, newsletters, and event results for deaf sports events, particularly the World Games for the Deaf.

Scope and Contents The Dorothy P. Polakoff Collection includes materials related to lip reading.The collection dates from 1944 to 1950 and contains approximately 850 items.The bulk of the collection includes books, clippings, lip reading lessons, and story exercises.The folder of books entitled “Jane Walker’s Book of Lip Reading Practice Material” was written by Jane B. Walker in 1945 and used for lip reading classes. The remaining folders were also used in lip reading...

Scope and Contents The Dr. Edward Miner Gallaudet Papers consist of correspondence, biographical information, articles, certificates, genealogical information, plays/scripts, poems, receipts, recipe book, diaries, speeches, pamphlets, and sermons. Dr. Gallaudet was the first superintendent of the Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb from 1857 to 1864. He was the first president of the National Deaf-Mute College from 1864 to 1910. In 1894, the college name was changed to Gallaudet College in honor of his...

Scope and Contents The Percival Hall Papers consist of letters, clippings, certificates, diaries, newsletters, telegrams, poems, photographs, by-laws, thesis, sermons, and lectures. The collection, which consists of approximately 4,250 pages, dates from 1887 to 1958. The bulk of the collection consists of his lectures, speeches, and sermons. The next bulk of the collection consists of his biographical information. The bulk dates are mostly between the 1930s and 1940s. The largest subject in the collection is...

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The Dr. Robert Gordon Sanderson collection consists of mostly his work for the deaf community, dating from 1961-1984. The collection includes correspondence from the National Association of the Deaf, guidelines of the NAD, history-services to the deaf in Utah and peddling.

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Articles, papers, correspondence, manuscript drafts, notes, and more collected by deaf vocational rehabilitation specialist Edna Adler while researching and writing a biography of her coworker, Boyce Williams.

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Speeches, papers, and a scrapbook collected by deaf educator and vocational rehabilitation specialist Edna P. Adler.

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This collection consists of articles, audio reels, booklets, correspondence, journals, magazines, completed and edited manuscripts, newsletters, photographs, psychology testing documents and objects, reports, speech drafts, and workshop materials.

Scope and Contents The Edward Allen Fay Papers consist of correspondence and personal papers of Edward Allen Fay, who taught Latin, French and German at Gallaudet College from 1866 to 1920. The collection, which includes approximately 1,700 pages of manuscript, dates from 1869 to 1952. The bulk of the collection falls into the period when Fay was editor of the American Annals of the Deaf, specifically 1870 to 1920. Included in this series are articles submitted to the Annals, checkbooks, receipts and...