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Chicago Disability History

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Archival Sources

Foundation for Developmentally Disabled Children photographs, Chicago History Museum.
Descriptive inventory for the Foundation for Developmentally Disabled Children records, 1929-1991, bulk 1945-1988, Chicago History Museum.
Northwestern University Medical School Department of Rehabilitation Medicine Departmental Report, Northwestern University.
Records of The Department of Audiology, Northwestern University.
Disability Cultural Center, University of Illinois Chicago.
Special Olympics Chicago records, 1965-2017, bulk ca. 1970s - 1990s, Chicago History Museum.
Chicago Special Olympics visual materials, Chicago History Museum.
Chicago Hearing Society photograph collection, 1910-1982, Chicago History Museum.
Parmly Hearing Institute records, 1938-2001, Loyola University Chicago.
Harold Washington Archives and Collections. Mayoral Records. Community Services Sub-Cabinet Series, 1975-1988, Chicago Public Library.

Chicago Daily News, Inc., photographer. [Blind Red Cross workers Mary S. Wright, Leo S. Cummings, and Miss Madeleine S. Loomis gathered around a desk] [graphic], [1922]. Chicago History Museum, https://explore.chicagocollections.org/image/chicagohistory/71/z892t8g/

Books and Other Published Sources

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