RIT-DSA. RIT/NTID Deaf Studies Archive

Overview The Theresa Matteson quilts collection includes the quilts Dragonfly and Hope, 2015. The Dragonfly quilt was created in 2009 by deaf quilt designer, Theresa Matteson in her own unique style by incorporating American Sign language (ASL) into the design. This bright and colorful quilt features a beautiful dragonfly and a hand signing the word "bug" in ASL.The quilt, ...

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Five pieces of artwork by deaf artist Susan Dupor.

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NTID Summer Vestibule Program photographs and trophy consists of photographs, 35 mm slides, negatives, VHS, 8mm video cassettes, and other ephemera relating to the Summer Vestibule Program, an orientation for students attending the National Institute for the Deaf at Rochester Institute of Technology. Materials within this collection date from 1971 to 2008.

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Four pieces of artwork by Deaf artist Paul Johnston. Johnston earned a BFA in furniture design and woodworking from Rochester Institute of Technology.

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Collection of t-shirts promoting the Australian Theatre of the Deaf.

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

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Virgil McCullough photographs document the National Technical Institute of the Deaf (NTID) production of the play The Phoney Gentleman in 1978.

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Photos, correspondence, and publications of Ralph L. Hoag. Hoag served as Executive Secretary to the National Advisory Board that established the National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID) at Rochester Institute of Technology.

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Collection of programs from the Performing Arts department of the National Technical Institute for the Deaf at Rochester Institute of Technology.

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Materials related to the National Fraternal Society of the Deaf, an insurance organization operated by and for the deaf and hard of hearing.