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Disability History Museum

Yellowed picture of boy on crutchesThe Disability History Museum's mission is to promote understanding about the historical experience of people with disabilities by recovering, chronicling, and interpreting their stories. The museum's goal is to help foster a deeper understanding of disability and to dispel lingering myths, assumptions, and stereotypes by examining these cultural legacies.

The Disability History Museum continues to add primary documents and images to its online Library collection. From the years 1810-1860, the museum has many articles and documents on "insane asylums." From the 1950's and 1960's are articles and images from the Toomeyville Gazette, published by polio survivors. In the future the museum will be focusing on the period between 1931 and 1960, particularly on diagnosis groups, such as ARC, the League of the Hearing Impaired, and the March of Dimes.

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