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White mss., 1932-1969

Title: White mss., 1932-1969

Collection consists of the correspondence, writings, and memorabilia of critic, editor, and writer William Anthony Parker (W.A.P.) White, 1911-1968.

ArchivalResource: 30,000 items

http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/findingaids/view?doc.view=entire_text&docId=InU-Li-VAC2076 View

J. B. Matthews Papers, 1862-1986 and undated

Title: J. B. Matthews Papers, 1862-1986 and undated

J. B. Matthews (1894-1966) was a Methodist missionary, college professor, author, lecturer, and prominent conservative spokesman. Collection consists of correspondence, memoranda, statements, speeches, reprints, clippings, broadsides, newsletters, press releases, petitions, and other printed material, chiefly 1930-1969. The principal focus of the collection relates to the work and research of Matthews and his associates in the area of anti-communism, particularly in connection with Matthews' role as Director of Research for the Special Committee on Un-American Activities of the U.S. House of Representatives (1938-1945), Executive Director of the Permanent Subcommittee on Government Operations of the U.S. Senate (1953), and a consultant for John A. Clements Associates. Many of the organizations, newspapers, periodicals, and persons represented in the collection have various leftist, socialist, communist, radical, or pacifist (especially anti-Vietnam War) connections.Individuals represented in the files include Ralph Abernathy, Bella Abzug, Roy Cohn, John Foster Dulles, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Michael Harrington, Alger Hiss, J. Edgar Hoover, Jesse Jackson, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Coretta Scott King, Joseph Lash, Joseph McCarthy, Carl McIntire, Benjamin Mandel, Richard Nixon, Aristotle Onassis, Lee Harvey Oswald, Linus Pauling, Drew Pearson, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Louis Untermeyer.

ArchivalResource: 479 Linear Feet; 307,000 Items

http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/findingaids/matthews/ View

Administrative Records, 1941-1952.

Title: Administrative Records, 1941-1952.

Records of the Unitarian Service Committee's relief work in Europe, as wellas their work with other relief agencies. The records cover 1941-1952.

ArchivalResource: 35 boxes

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/div16035/catalog View

Gay Wilson Allen Papers, 1801-1988

Title: Gay Wilson Allen Papers, 1801-1988

Gay Wailson Allen (1903-1995) was a university professor, author, and Walt Whitman scholar. Collection consists of correspondence, notebooks, printed material, essays, and other writings, literary manuscripts, scrapbooks, teaching materials, pictures, books, clippings, offprints, periodicals, and sale catalogs. The focus of the collection is Allen's career as an university professor and Walt Whitman scholar. In particular Allen's activities as a professor at New York University and as a lecturer at Nagono, Japan in 1955, are documented. The history of Whitman criticism is an important theme. There is a large amount of research material on Whitman, both of Allen and other literary scholars. These include Evie Allison Allen, Clara Barrus, Charles N. Elliot, Clifton Joseph Furness, Emory Holloway, Peter Mitilineos, Hans Reisiger, and Henry Scholey Saunders. The Correspondence Series contains original correspondence acquired by Allen of Richard Watson Gilder, Alice James, and William James. This series also contains the correspondence of Roger Asselineau, Fredson Bowers, Oscar Cargill, Malcolm Cowley, Charles E. Feinberg, Milton Hindus, Emory Holloway, Sholom Kahn, and Frederik Schyberg. There are no strictly personal papers in the collection.

ArchivalResource: 33 Linear Feet; 5,500 Items

http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/findingaids/allen/ View

The Railroad hour, radio program [sound recording], 1948-1954

Title: The Railroad hour, radio program [sound recording] 1948-1954

The Railroad hour was a program which presented excerpts of famous musical comedies, as well as original stories, for radio audiences. Each half-hour episode of the program presented the highlights of one musical. Gordon MacRae was the host and leading man for each episode; his leading ladies came from radio and the Metropolitan Opera.

ArchivalResource: 490 sound discs; analog, 33 1/3 rpm; 16 in.; 42 sound tapes

http://archives.nypl.org/rha/20435 View

Maxwell Evarts Perkins correspondence and papers on Thomas Wolfe, 1933-1948.

Title: Maxwell Evarts Perkins correspondence and papers on Thomas Wolfe, 1933-1948.

Papers of the American editor Maxwell Perkins relating to his literary executorship of the estate of American author Thomas Wolfe.

ArchivalResource: 10 boxes (4.2 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00320/catalog View

Charles Kuralt Collection, 1935-1997

Title: Charles Kuralt Collection, 1935-1997

Charles Bishop Kuralt (1934-1997), newspaper, radio, and television journalist and author, was born in Wilmington, N.C. Kuralt attended the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1951-1955, where he served as editor of the and worked for WUNC radio. Kuralt then joined the staff of the and, in 1957, became a writer for CBS in New York. As a correspondent for CBS, Kuralt was best known for his long-running television series and . He was the author of several best-selling books based on his CBS experiences and the recipient of thirteen Emmy awards and three George Foster Peabody awards. Daily Tar Heel Charlotte News On the Road Sunday Morning Papers, 1934-1997, of Charles Kuralt, include personal and office mail, with extensive fan mail files and many letters in response to his retirement; scripts; speeches; background research materials relating to shows and books; clippings and souvenirs; publicity materials; oral history interviews with Kuralt's friends, family, and colleagues; photographs; calendars and notebooks; and audiotapes, videotapes, films, and other media. Among topics documented are early radio and television news writing and broadcasting, including the work of foreign correspondents in Latin America, Vietnam, and the Soviet Union, 1953-1994; American popular culture and folklore, 1950s-1990s; United States and international politics, especially in the 1960s; Appalachian poverty and culture, 1960s-1970s; the Plaisted Polar Expedition, 1967; fly fishing, 1970s-1990s; Olympics coverage, 1992-1994; and Kuralt family history.

ArchivalResource: 67,500; 198.5

http://www2.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/k/Kuralt,Charles.html View

Miscellaneous screen, stage, and radio scripts, ca. 1859-2007.

Title: Miscellaneous screen, stage, and radio scripts, ca. 1859-2007.

19th-21st-century typescript and manuscript American and European stage scripts, radio scripts, television scripts, and screenplays.

ArchivalResource: 60 boxes (31 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01716/catalog View

Theatre Arts Monthly, collection of portraits, ca., ca., 1924-1939 (bulk), 1916-1964 (inclusive).

Title: Theatre Arts Monthly collection of portraits, ca. ca. 1924-1939 (bulk), 1916-1964 (inclusive).

Portrait and group portrait photographs of theatre-related people.

ArchivalResource: 8 boxes (2 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou02021/catalog View