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The Disability Grapevine Online Newspaper: Issue # 7
Tuesday, April 16, 2002
Year 3
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From Mark Johnson

Disability Museum opens online

"Few of us realize that people with disabilities have a rich and
dramatic history relevant to all Americans," says Laurie Block.
"Nearly all of us know someone with a disability, and this has always
been the case." As an expansion of her work in putting together the
award-winning NPR documentary "Beyond Affliction," Block has opened
the Disability History Museum at http://www.disabilitymuseum.org -- a
searchable, theme-based digital collection that exists only online --
offering documents and images related to disability history in the
United States,  drawn from public and private collections around the
country.

Highlights include a memoir by Isaac Hunt of his years in the Maine
Insane Hospital -- "Astounding Disclosures, Three Years In A Mad
House, 1852" -- a number of articles from the The Cripple Child
Magazine from the mid-20th century, and essays by the late disability
sociologist Irving Zola.

Materials in the Library date back to the 18th century -- "they
illuminate daily life, work, charity, popular culture, local and
national political milestones, shifts in visual representation and
medical knowledge, and the rise and fall of a variety of social
movements," says Block.

The Disability History Museum's Library is an extension and
considerable expansion of the materials assembled by Block, Executive
Director of Straight Ahead Pictures, Inc.,  for the award winning
series Beyond Affliction: The Disability History Project, which was
broadcast on NPR stations nationally and won the 1999 Robert Kennedy
Award In Journalism. Its Document Collection contains articles,
pamphlets, letters, book excerpts, and other texts; its Visual Still
Collection contains photographs, paintings, postcards, lithographs,
and other visual materials. An Audio Collection will be added in the
future. Virtual exhibits and education curricula are in the works as
well.

The Library collecting policy is focused on U. S. primary source
material from 1775-1990, covering topics that include physical,
psychiatric, sensory, and cognitive disability issues across the
generations, says Block. Currently, two collections are available,
documents and visual stills, and they are searchable by keyword,
format, date, source, title. "The collection is growing at the rate
of approximately 100 artifacts a month," says Block.

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