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Title: Activities of the Silent Colony, February 3, 1920
Created: February 3, 1920
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Manuscripts
Description: Schowe describes the activities of the silent colony's athletics and the progress of deaf employees
Subject: Employees Recruiting

Title: Akron Committee Finally Gets to The Source of W.P.A. Discrimination by the W.P.A. Committee of the Akron Division of the National Fraternal Society of the Deaf, no date
Creator: National Fraternal Society of the Deaf
Type: Manuscripts
Description: The paper explains the federal regulations that prohibits the deaf from working for the Work Projects Administration.
Subject: Discrimination in employment--Deaf, United States. Work Projects Administration

Title: August Valentine Report
Creator: National Fraternal Society of the Deaf
Type: Manuscripts
Description: A report of discrimination in Illinois
Subject: Discrimination in employment--Deaf, United States. Work Projects Administration

Title: The Deaf and Deafened In Industry, Grand Rapids Safety Council, Industiral Division Meeting, February 28, 1939
Created: February 28, 1939
Creator: Howard, Jay Cooke
Type: Manuscripts
Description: Speech by Jay Cooke Howard about deaf employees and their placement and training
Subject: Job placement--Deaf, Occupational Training, Safety and health at work

Title: On employment for Gallaudet grads
Created: January 1, 1958
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Manuscripts, Notes
Subject: Employment--Deaf--United States, College graduates--Washington (D.C.)

Title: Realistic Approach to Deaf Employment, 1957
Created: January 1, 1957
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Manuscripts
Description: Discusses the extension of training and quality of training at state schools
Subject: Occupational Training, Job placement--Deaf

Title: Report from Mildred M. Watkins, no date
Creator: Watkins, Mildred M.
Type: Manuscripts
Description: Watkins reports that most employers only complain about communication access with their deaf employees
Subject: Civil Works Administration, Deaf--Employment--Statistics, Communication--Deaf, Employment Opportunities--Deaf--United States, Lipreading

Title: Rough Draft of Letter (2)
Creator: Unknown
Type: Manuscripts
Description: Rough draft thanking the Work Projects Administration for revising their regulations
Subject: Discrimination in employment--Deaf, United States. Work Projects Administration, Safety and health at work

Title: Rough Draft of Letter, Unknown Author and Recepient, No date
Creator: Unknown
Type: Manuscripts
Description: A rough draft letter regarding deaf workers
Subject: Discrimination in employment--Deaf, United States. Work Projects Administration

Title: Section 45. General Provisions in the Selection of persons for Assignment.
Creator: Work Projects Administration
Type: Manuscripts
Description: Copy of regulations for the Work Projects Administration
Subject: Works Project Administration

Title: Suggestion for Radio Talk to Employers--ESAD Diamond Jubilee Broadcast: The Business of Being Deaf, Benjamin M. Schowe, August 8, 1940
Created: August 8, 1940
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Manuscripts
Description: Draft of radio address about deaf employees and work hazards
Subject: Safety and health at work

Title: United States to Make Survey for Deaf and Hard of Hearing, United States Department of the Interior, Office of Education, January 19, 1934
Created: January 19, 1934
Creator: Civil Works Administration
Type: Manuscripts
Description: Press release from the government announcing a study of how to best employ deaf and hard of hearing children in the future
Subject: Occupational Training, Job placement--Deaf

Title: Vocational Section of Convention of American Instructors of the Deaf, Resolutions, June 21, 1951
Created: June 21, 1951
Creator: Convention of American Instructors of the Deaf
Type: Manuscripts
Description: Various resolutions passed at the 1951 convention in Fulton regarding vocational rehabilitation and training for deaf children
Subject: Automobile driver education--Deaf, Occupational Training, Convention of American Instructors of the Deaf, Personality, Vocational Rehabilitation--Deaf, Mental health--Deaf

Title: A Yardstick for Physical Standards, Lieut. General Lewis B. Hershey, Director of Selective Service, no date
Creator: Hershey, Lewis B.
Type: Manuscripts
Description: Hershey urges his audience to use each person to their best degree of "usability"
Subject: Resource Allocation