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Title: The Industrial Potential of the Deaf, by Benjamin M. Schowe, April 11, 1954
Created: April 11, 1954
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Manuscripts
Description: Schowe writes about the potential of the deaf worker post-war
Subject: World War I, United States. Work Projects Administration, World War II, Vocational Rehabilitation--Deaf, Employment--Deaf--United States

Title: Letter from Benjamin M. Schowe to Benjamin M. Schowe Jr., October 6, 1959
Created: October 6, 1959
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Correspondence
Description: Schowe asks his son about defining the term "deaf-mute"
Subject: Vocabulary--Deaf

Title: Letter from Benjamin M. Schowe to Boyce R. Williams, April 10, 1955
Created: April 10, 1954
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Correspondence
Description: Schowe addresses the problem of discrimination against deaf workers
Subject: Communication--Deaf, Employment Opportunities--Deaf--United States, Discrimination--Deaf, Vocational Rehabilitation--Deaf

Title: Letter from Benjamin M. Schowe to Boyce R. Williams, April 16, 1954
Created: April 16, 1954
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Correspondence
Description: Schowe claims that discrimination is difficult to define and capture
Subject: Discrimination in employment--Deaf

Title: Letter from Benjamin M. Schowe to Boyce R. Williams, April 3, 1957
Created: April 3, 1957
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Correspondence
Description: Schowe discusses workplace accommodations for general handicapped employees but admits that such is not the same for deaf workers and it is harder to measure the import of communication on jobs.
Subject: Employment--Deaf--United States, Discrimination--Deaf, Promotions, Work environment Barrier-free design, Occupational Training

Title: Letter from Benjamin M. Schowe to Boyce R. Williams, April 7, 1954
Created: April 7, 1954
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Correspondence
Description: Schowe writes about patterns of professional employment of the deaf
Subject: Employment Opportunities--Deaf--United States

Title: Letter from Benjamin M. Schowe to Boyce R. Williams, January 8, 1957
Created: January 8, 1957
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Correspondence
Description: Schowe writes to Williams, disagreeing with Detmold's new cirriculum for Gallaudet
Subject: Occupational Training

Title: Letter from Benjamin M. Schowe to Boyce R. Williams, May 10, 1954
Created: May 10, 1954
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Correspondence
Description: Schowe suggests Williams use Department of Labor's information gathering methods for deaf employment research
Subject: Deaf--Employment--Statistics, Employment Opportunities--Deaf--United States

Title: Letter from Benjamin M. Schowe to Boyce R. Williams, May 20, 1955
Created: May 20, 1955
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Correspondence
Description: Schowe shares ideas with Williams about job opportunities
Subject: Employment Opportunities--Deaf--United States, Statistics--Employment

Title: Letter from Benjamin M. Schowe to Boyce R. Williams, Specialist of Deaf and Hard of Hearing for the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation, September 27, 1951
Created: September 27, 1951
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Correspondence
Description: Schowe critiques some word choices in a pamphlet that Williams wrote
Subject: Vocabulary--Deaf, Employment Opportunities--Deaf--United States

Title: Letter from Benjamin M. Schowe to Irving S. Fusfeld, Vice President of Gallaudet College, March 12, 1956
Created: March 12, 1956
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Correspondence
Description: Schowe cautions not to unilaterally exclude deaf workers from noisy jobs based only on his own article and works
Subject: Deaf--Employment

Title: Letter from Benjamin M. Schowe to Ray F. Stallo, Secretary of the California Association of the Deaf, Incorporated, July 24, 1953
Created: July 24, 1953
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Correspondence
Description: Schowe tells Stallo that their views are similiar and discusses occupational training and rehabilitation
Subject: Occupational Training, Oralism vs. manualism debate

Title: Letter from Benjamin M. Schowe to W. Richard Kennedy, November 16, 1956
Created: November 16, 1956
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Correspondence
Description: Schowe writes a sample letter to parents for W. Richard Kennedy, encouraging parents to become actively involved in combating job discrimination against deaf workers
Subject: Discrimination--Deaf

Title: Memorandum from Benjamin M. Schowe to Alan B. Crammattee, December 23, 1956
Created: December 23, 1956
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Correspondence
Description: Schowe asks Crammatte to consider a study of deaf employment and developing guidelines for such.
Subject: Employment--Deaf--United States, Deaf Means of Communication