You might want to turn the slides over to Gallaudet College in Washington, D.C., the first and oldest school of higher education for the deaf in the U.S. They have actively sought material on deaf artists for their library and have a special collection relating to deaf artists and writers. I'm sure they would appreciate such a collection and it would be more useful (and used) there than at RIT because of its concentration on deaf studies. Unless you were developing a program in this area and had other archival material to back up such a collection, I think it would be lost at RIT.
I don't know what artists are represented in the collection, but there have been a number of deaf artists which Gallaudet has sought to identify, some quite well-known, and others quite obscure.
Raymond Smith
R.W. Smith Bookseller
New Haven
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From: "Becky Simmons" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, June 03, 2005 1:59 PM
Subject: [ARLIS-L] Collection of Slides in an Archive/Special Collection
A faculty member would like to place a collection of 35mm slides she has
amassed (about 100) in the archives. They are slides of artwork by deaf
artists, and may be the only collection that anyone could find in one
place. As an archivist I hesitate, because after all, they are copies,
and not the original artwork. But, they do relegate to the faculty
member's scholarship, and might be of interest to researchers now and
into the future. I can see them increasing in uniqueness and value as
time goes on. I am going to take them, but was looking for additional
input/suggestions/comments from others who may have experience with the
same sort of scenario.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Thanks,
Becky
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Rochester Institute of Technology
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