MSS 68

Eastman, Gilbert C., 1934-  

Papers of Gilbert C. Eastman, 1974-1994

 

 

Gallaudet University Archives.

 

 

Descriptive Summary

Repository: Gallaudet University Archives
Call No.: MSS 68
 Creator:
Title: Papers of Gilbert C. Eastman, 1974-1994.
Quantity: 3.0 Linear Feet (6 document boxes)
Abstract:  
Note: This document last updated 2005 December 2.

Administrative Information

Acquisition Information: The Gilbert C. Eastman collection was donated to the Gallaudet University Archives by Gilbert Eastman in 1990.

Processed by: Colleen Crisp. 1996 March 29.
Processing Note:
Conditions on Use and Access: This collection is open to the public with no restrictions. Photocopies may be made for scholarly research.

 

 

Related Material in the Archives:

See ALADIN for complete listings.

 

Films

·         A sense of wonder, a sense of worth [motion picture]. Gallaudet University Archives, Call Number: Deaf Film 17-6

·         Recruitment project - [Behind scenes of "Face of Clerc" play] [motion picture]. Gallaudet University Archives, Call Number: Deaf Film 382-4

·         Recruitment project - [Homecoming dance-play-alumni brunch] [motion picture]. Gallaudet University Archives, Call Number: Deaf Film 39-8

 

 

Manuscripts

·         Collection, The Hughes Memorial Theatre, 1959-1986.. Gallaudet University Archives, Call Number: MSS 77

 

Photographs

·         Vth annual School of Communication Awards Program [picture]. Gallaudet University Archives, Call Number: Drawer B11

·         Gilbert C. Eastman [picture]. Gallaudet University Archives, Call Number: Portraits.

 

Small Manuscripts

·         Papers, William Moses, 1987. Gallaudet University Archives, Call Number: SMSS

·         Papers, Gilbert Eastman, 1952. Gallaudet University Archives, Call Number: SMSS

 

Vertical Files

·         Gilbert Eastman. Gallaudet University Archives, Call Number: Deaf Biographical.


Biographical Sketch

 

Gilbert C. Eastman was born in Middletown, CT on September 12, 1934. He graduated from the American School for the Deaf in Hartford, CT in 1953. He entered Gallaudet College and was an actor in many plays given at Gallaudet College. He graduated in 1957 and started teaching drama after he graduated.

For many years, Gilbert C. Eastman has accomplished so much that he became well-known in the Deaf Community. He was a founding member of the Tony Award-winning National Theater of the Deaf. He received a Master of Fine Arts in Drama from Catholic University in 1963, making him the first deaf person to earn that diploma. From 1957-1969, he was a director and a stage manager for many plays at Gallaudet College. He wrote and directed the well-known play, Laurent Clerc: A profile in 1977. He was a television host of the Emmy Award-winning show, Deaf Mosaic.

Gilbert C. Eastman gave many presentations on Laurent Clerc at banquets, meetings, and schools.

After 35 years of teaching and acting chair for the Drama Department, he retired in 1992. He is still collecting more information on Laurent Clerc.

 

Scope and Content

 

The Gilbert C. Eastman Collection contains papers mostly on Laurent Clerc. Gilbert C. Eastman became interested in collecting information on Laurent Clerc when he was on sabbatical leave from Gallaudet College to write his play, Laurent Clerc: A profile.

The collection has Xerox papers on Laurent Clerc, the history of American School for the Deaf, maps, pictures, Clerc's descendants, correspondences, presentations, and his trips to France. It also included his script from the play, Laurent Clerc: A profile. There are slides from his trip to France and they are now in the photograph collection in the Gallaudet University Archives. He gathered most of that information from Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale College, American School for the Deaf, and Connecticut Historical Society in Hartford, CT.

 

Series Descriptions and Folder Lists

No Series.

Box

Number

Title of Folder

Date

1

1

Articles on Laurent Clerc

1785-1815

2

1

1870-1875

 

3

1

Conversation between Clerc and a passenger on a ship

n.d.

4

1

Susan Clerc Galloway

1976-1987

5

1

Photostats of Clerc's papers from Yale College, donated by Francis J. Clerc (son) part 2

 

6

1

Trip to France

1980

1

2

Articles on Laurent Clerc

1815

2

2

1876-1879, misc

 

3

2

Conversation between Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Clerc

ca 1816

4

2

Jack Gannon

1981-1985

5

2

Poems

n.d.

6

2

Trip to France

1980

1

3

Articles on Laurent Clerc

1816-1818

2

3

An Address written by Mr. Clerc and read by his request at a public examination of the pupils in the Connecticut Asylum before the governor and both Houses of Legislative

1818

3

3

Copies from transparencies #1-8, map of Hartford, pictures of inns in Connecticut

n.d.

4

3

Greeting cards with Jean Massieu's quotes

n.d.

5

3

Presentations

1977-1979

6

3

Trip to France

1985

1

4

Articles on Laurent Clerc

1819-1829

2

4

"Advantages and Disadvantages of the use of signs"

 nd

3

4

Correspondences

1971-1991

4

4

Hartford, CT - general information

n.d.

5

4

Presentations

1985-1994

1

5

Articles on Laurent Clerc

1830-1847

2

5

Announcement of Clerc's wedding

1819

3

5

"Deaf and Dumb or the orphan protected. A historical drama in five acts"

1817

4

5

Historical, Anecdotal, etc

n.d.

5

5

Production-Laurent Clerc: A profile at ASD

1977

1

6

Articles on Laurent Clerc

1848-1860

2

6

Articles

1850-1943

3

6

Descendants of Laurent Clerc 1908-1945

 

4

6

History of American School for the Deaf

n.d.

5

6

Proposal to change University's name

1987

1

7

Articles on Laurent Clerc

1861-1869

2

7

Article-Why NYU chose Gallaudet?

1981

3

7

Descriptive list of Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Edward Miner Gallaudet papers

nd

4

7

The history of the first school for the Deaf-mutes of America: how they are educated and how the alphabets are invented and introduced into use

1883

5

7

Reminiscences of Laurent Clerc

1871-1882

2

8

Asylum Hill Congregational Church

1965

3

8

The diary of Laurent Clerc's voyage from France to America in 1816

1952

4

8

"History of the town of Henniker" by Leander W. Cogswell

1978

5

8

Reports of the Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf and Dumb

1865-1875

2

9

Bibliography

nd

3

9

Documents relating to Clerc

1804-1978

4

9

"How to find your roots"

1977

5

9

L'Abbe' Sicard

n.d.

2

10

Biography written by Clerc's grandson

nd

3

10

To the editor of the Hartford from Walter G. Durian

nd

4

10

Inauguration of the College for the Deaf and Dumb at Washington, DC

1864

5

10

Lydia Huntley Sigourney

1845-1937

2

11

Edmund Booth

nd

3

11

Family tree of Clerc

nd

4

11

Invitation to play-"Laurent Clerc and Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and first school for the Deaf" at KDES

1982

5

11

Slides from trip to France

1980

2

12

"Deaf teachers of the Deaf" by Edmund B. Boatner

nd

3

12

The Fanwood Journal

1932-1938

4

12

"The language of the eye"

n.d.

5

12

Specimens of original composition by some of the most advanced pupils in the Asylum

1886

2

13

"Noteworthy careers and achievements of the Deaf" by Edmund B. Boatner

1933

3

13

"The Gate to Heaven: T.H. Gallaudet and the rhetoric of the Deaf Education movement" by James J. Fernandes

1979

4

13

L'Abbe De L'Eppe'

1818

5

13

"A retrospect of the education of the Deaf, on occasion of the Clerc Centennial Commemoration, December 28, 1885" by Henry Winter Syle

1885

2

14

Napoleon Bonaparte

nd

3

14

Flyers

1991

4

14

List of records and historical objects in the museum of ASD, West Hartford, CT

1981

2

15

John Brewster

1977

3

15

Miner Fowler House

1917-1982

4

15

Manual (finger) Alphabet

n.d.

2

16

John Carlin

1868

3

16

Sophia Fowler - early pictures

1818

4

16

Jean Massieu

1817

2

17

City Hall

nd

3

17

Rev. Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet

1817

4

17

Miscellaneous

1808-1979

2

18

Laurent Clerc

1825-1983

3

18

GCAA 32nd Triennial Reunion

1985

4

18

"The National College for Mutes"

n.d.

2

19

Laurent Clerc Bicentennial Anniversary

1985-1986

4

19

National Deaf Mute Gazette

1868

2

20

Clerc's house in La Balme, France

1985

4

20

Notes by Gilbert C.Eastman

n.d

2

21

Laurent Clerc Memorial Dedication

1987

4

21

Ohio School for the Deaf

1872-1985

2

22

Clerc Hall Dedication

1974

4

22

"On the use of Methodical Signs"

n.d.

2

23

Alice Cogswell

1815-1818

4

23

Oral and Manual Controversy

n.d.

2

24

Mason Cogswell

1817-1818

4

24

Charles Willson Peale

1822-1988

2

25

Collection Stamps - Thomas Gallaudet

nd

4

25

Photocopies of ASD

n.d.

2

26

Comics

1953-1955

4

26

Photos of Laurent Clerc

n.d.

2

27

Commemorative Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet Stamps

1983

4

27

Photostats of Clerc's papers from Yale College, donated by Francis J. Clerc (son) part 1

 

2

28

"Congress and the Deaf and Dumb" - The Silent World

1872