Dorothy Stimson Bullitt papers, 1933-1993.

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Dorothy Stimson Bullitt papers, 1933-1993.

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The papers document the lives, interests, and businesses of Dorothy Stimson Bullitt and the Stimson and Bullitt families. Included are records of the King Broadcasting Company, mainly from the office of Dorothy Stimson Bullitt, which document the growth and activities of the family's television and radio enterprises. Included in personal and family materials are letters, diaries, writings, subject series, photographs, financial, and other papers of Dorothy Stimson Bullitt, her parents Harriet Overton Stimson and C.D. Stimson, and her husband A. Scott Bullitt. Major correspondents include Ancil Payne, Delphine Haley, Henry Colver, the Metropolitan Building Company (Seattle), Okinawa Plywood, the Stimson Realty Company, Mobilization for Human Needs, the Seattle Civilian War Commission, the University of Washington Board of Regents, the Emergency Relief Commission (Washington), the Washington State Canal Commission, the Television Code Review Board of the National Association of Broadcasters, Olmsted Brothers, and Hearst Radio Inc. King Broadcasting Company records consist of correspondence, memos, FCC applications and testimony, minutes, program schedules, production notes and scripts, annual reports, financial records, press releases and publicity programs, awards, scrapbooks and memorabilia, station logs, blueprints, sound recordings, and several videocassettes. The records also document Western Waves, a predecessor to KING Broadcasting, as well as many of KING's subsidiaries and parts: KING-TV, KING-AM, KING-FM (Seattle, Wash.); KGW-TV and KGW-AM (Portland, Or.); KREM (Spokane, Wash.); Seattle Magazine; KING Screen Productions; and various video and cable companies.

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