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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

Title: The W.P.A. Committee Gets Action.
Created: April 13, 1940
Creator: National Fraternal Society of the Deaf
Type: Manuscripts
Description: Victory for the committee in revising the regulations
Subject: Discrimination in employment--Deaf, United States. Work Projects Administration

Title: Without Benefit of Telephone, by Benjamin M. Schowe, October 13, 1958
Created: October 13, 1958
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Manuscripts
Description: Schowe writes about his experience of deaf employment at Firestone
Subject: Employment--Deaf--United States, Employment Opportunities--Deaf--United States, Safety and health at work, Segregation

Title: War-Time Evolution of Employment Opportunities For the Deaf, Benjamin M. Schowe, January 3, 1943
Created: January 3, 1943
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Manuscripts
Description: Schowe describes the difficulties facing the deaf employee in search for jobs but presents some ideas that work to the deaf employee's advantage
Subject: Employment Opportunities--Deaf--United States, Discrimination in employment--Deaf, Deaf--Employment--Statistics, Occupational Training

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: Vocational Association of the Deaf: Committee on Industrial Practices, Progress Report, March 1, 1951
Created: March 1, 1951
Creator: Vocational Association of the Deaf Industrial Practices Committee
Type: Manuscripts
Description: Schowe and the committee discuss vocational training and other aspects of barriers to deaf employment
Subject: Employment Opportunities--Deaf--United States, Occupational Training, Job placement--Deaf, Vocational Rehabilitation--Deaf, Communication--Deaf, Lipreading, Safety and health at work, Worker's Compensation--Deaf, Discrimination in employment--Deaf

Title: U.S. [S]Xurvey of Deaf and Hard of Hearing Employment, Interview with B.M. Schowe, Local Supervisor for Akron and vicinity, January 20, 1933
Created: January 20, 1933
Creator: Civil Works Administration
Type: Manuscripts
Description: Schowe states that education helps the deaf get jobs but discrimination is still prevalent
Subject: Unemployment--Deaf, Discrimination--Deaf

Title: Unrealistic Distinctions, Benjamin M. Schowe, no date
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Manuscripts
Description: Schowe focuses on how communication can be facilitated at work between deaf and hearing employees and supervisors.
Subject: Lipreading, Safety and health at work, Employment Opportunities--Deaf--United States, Communication--Deaf, Occupational Training, Segregation

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: Two Chemists of Akron, Thomas W. Osborne, by Benjamin M. Schowe, no date
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Manuscripts
Description: Schowe writes a biography of Thomas W. Osborne
Subject: Employment Opportunities--Deaf--United States, Occupational Training

Title: To All Those Employers Who Are Resourceful Enough to Find Rewarding Employment for Deaf Workers, Benjamin M. Schowe, March 17, 1960
Created: March 17, 1960
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Manuscripts
Description: Schowe describes the possibilities of deaf in employment
Subject: Employment Opportunities--Deaf--United States, Vocabulary--Deaf, Lipreading, Oralism--Deaf--United States, Occupational Training

Title: Suggestions, Benjamin M. Schowe, no date
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Manuscripts
Description: Schowe makes suggestions for distribution to employers
Subject: Civil Works Administration, Employment--Deaf--Statistics, Employment Opportunities--Deaf--United States, Oralism vs. manualism debate

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: Speech in Detroit, Benjamin M. Schowe, no date
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Manuscripts
Description: Schowe discusses war's impact on employment opportunities for deaf workers and determination on part of the deaf
Subject: Employment Opportunities--Deaf--United States

Title: Self-security and the Humble Heart, by Benjamin M. Schowe, no date
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Manuscripts
Description: A speech that Schowe gives at a National Fraternal Society of the Deaf banquet
Subject: Discrimination--Deaf

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: 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: 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

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