DSA001. RIT/NTID Deaf Studies Archive

Collection of posters for films featuring Deaf characters.

Deaf history newspaper clippings focus on the education of the Deaf at the turn of the twentieth century, mainly in New York State. Also included are obituaries and articles on notable Deaf persons.

Deaf President Now collection contains digitized copies of documentation of protests held at Gallaudet University in 1988 by deaf students who wanted a deaf president. The collection also contains documentation of demands by students at National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID) for specific concerns they wanted addressed by the administration.

The Deaf Rochester Film Festival collection contains planning materials, media, posters, programs, and other promotional material relating to the festival.

The Deaf Rochester News collection contains meeting minutes, correspondence, administrative documents, and photographs related to the Deaf Rochester News and Deaf community of Rochester. Records range from 1984 to circa 2000’s.

Deaf View Image Art (De'VIA) collection contains a poster, exhibit and auction programs from various De'VIA events held during 2008, 2009, 2012 and 2014, as well as Gallery Guides from Deaf Artists' exhibits from 1993, 1995, and 1999.

The Deaf Women of Rochester collection contains administrative and governance documents, meeting minutes, correspondence, publications, newsletters, conference materials, event fundraising, photographic material, and sports documentation.

This is a framed color print by artist Alice Silver. Silver is a deaf American working in the visual arts. The print depicts a box of crayons with the word for deaf in many languages printed on each crayon.

Episodes of the student-produced Deafvines: A College Life Soap Opera, created at National Technical Institute for the Deaf.

Records collected by Dean Santos while serving as Staff Chairperson and professor of the National Technical Institute (NTID) Deaf Social Work program. The fifteen boxes include correspondence with alumni of the program, events, alumni newsletters, course syllabi, community programs and service, historical documents, conferences and curriculum materials between 1970-2005.