Scope and Contents Foreman, teacher and former Mayor of Jacksonville, Illinois, discusses her early life in Jacksonville: family, her father's teaching career with the deaf, friends and neighbors, neighborhoods and parks, early education and Routt High School, homemade foods, home life, summer vacations in Michigan, and streetcars and automobiles. She discusses attending Illinois College, classmates there, WWI homefront, discrimination against Catholics and blacks, and Jacksonville businesses. 15...

Scope and Contents ILLINOIS SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF The narrators, employees, students, teachers, and children of deaf parents, discuss their work and learning experiences at the Illinois School for the Deaf, and provide some insight into the world of the deaf. 4 vols., 286 pp. Interviews by Kathleen Stanfield Cook, 1983-1984 RESTRICTED: no legal releases for several narrators See collateral file: interviewer's notes, newspaper clippings, photocopied photographs of narrators, classes, and...