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1.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Ace Books.
Inclusive Dates:
1935-1962
Abstract:
Manuscripts for periodicals published by Ace Books and photographs used for illustrations of Secrets, 1937.
Type of Material:
Manuscripts for publication.
Photographs.
Subject:
United States -- Popular culture.
Confidential confessions.
Daring romances.
Love fiction.
Revealing romances.
Secrets.
Publishers.
Publishing, printing and book arts
Popular culture
Business and Industry
Confession stories -- Periodicals.
Love -- Fiction.
Love stories -- Periodicals.
Periodicals -- Publishing.
Popular literature -- Publishing.
Publishers and publishing -- United States.
Western stories -- Periodicals.

Creator:
Actors' Equity Association.
Inclusive Dates:
1919-1928
Abstract:
Correspondence of actors, actresses, directors, producers, and playwrights, including that of Heywood Broun, Richard Carle, Sheldon Cheney, Ernest H. Culbertson, Dudley Digges, Kenneth MacGown, Josephine A. Meyer, Channing Pollock, Arthur Richman, Joseph Santley, Blanche Yurka, and others.
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Subject:
Radio, television, film
Popular culture
Dance and theatre
Theater -- United States.
Labor unions -- Actors -- United States.

Creator:
Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964
Inclusive Dates:
1925-1945
Abstract:
Programs and other printed material relating to musical, theatrical and dance performances as well as political events, collected by American writer and photographer Carl Van Vechten.
Type of Material:
Broadsides (notices)
Invitations.
Announcements.
Theater programs.
Subject:
United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
Entertainers.
African Americans
Dance and theatre
Popular culture
Radio, television, film
African Americans -- Music.
African Americans -- Politics and government.
African Americans -- Social conditions -- To 1964.
African Americans in the performing arts.
African Americans -- History -- 1877-1964.
African American dance.
Performing Arts -- United States.
Dance -- United States.
Musical theater -- United States.

4.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Rafkin, Alan, 1928-2001.
Inclusive Dates:
1970-1994
Abstract:
Alan Rafkin was an American television producer and director, primarily of situation comedies. Collection includes television scripts (ca. 750), videocassettes (ca. 200), and memorabilia.
Type of Material:
Videotapes.
Betacam (TM)
VHS.
Memorabilia.
Television scripts.
Subject:
Producers and directors.
Radio, television, film
Popular culture
Television -- Production and direction.
Television broadcasting.
Television broadcasting -- Auditions.
Television broadcasting -- Awards.
Television comedies.
Television pilot programs.
Television plays.
Television producers and directors -- United States.
Television scripts.
Television series -- United States.
Television specials.

5.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Balk, Alfred, 1930-2010.
Inclusive Dates:
1925-2010
Abstract:
Research material, writings, audiorecordings, periodicals, amassed by journalist, editor and radio scholar Alfred Balk over the course of his writing and teaching career.
Type of Material:
78 rpm records.
Audiocassettes.
Catalogs (documents)
Clippings (information artifacts)
Long-playing records.
Manuscripts for publication.
Newsletters.
Oral histories (literary works)
Research notes.
Sound recordings.
VHS.
Videocassettes.
Subject:
Rise of radio.
Journalist.
Popular culture
Radio, television, film
Popular culture -- United States.
Radio -- History.
Radio broadcasting -- United States -- History.
Radio programs -- United States -- History.

6.

Collection Title:
Creator:
unknown
Inclusive Dates:
1990-1995
Abstract:
Videotape recordings of the television show All About TV. Also includes a few recordings of Day at Night and Television in America.
Type of Material:
Sound recordings.
Audiotapes.
Video recordings.
Videotapes.
Interviews.
Subject:
All about TV (Television program)
Day at night (Television program)
Television in America (Television program)
Television broadcasters.
Television journalists.
Television producers.
Popular culture
Radio, television, film
Popular culture -- United States.
Religion on television.
Television -- History.
Television -- Study and teaching.
Television and children.
Television and culture.
Television and history.
Television and politics.
Television in religion.
Television in education.
Television broadcasting -- United States.
Television broadcasting of news -- United States.
Television journalists -- United States.

Creator:
Unger, Arthur
Inclusive Dates:
1970-1988
Abstract:
Collection contains audio interviews conducted by Arthur Unger, a television critic for the Christian Science Monitor and special correspondent for Television Quarterly. Length of interviews varies. Subject include actors, entertainers, musicians, journalists, writers, more. Tapes are sound cassettes, analog, 1 7/8 ips, mono.
Type of Material:
Audiotapes.
Press conferences.
Interviews.
Subject:
Christian Science monitor.
Television quarterly.
Journalists.
Radio, television, film
Journalism
Popular culture
Entertainers -- Interviews.
Television -- United States.
Television actors and actresses -- United States.
Television producers and directors -- United States.
Television journalists -- United States.
Popular culture -- United States.
Television broadcasting of news -- United States.

8.

Collection Title:
Creator:
unknown
Inclusive Dates:
1969-1974
Abstract:
Color photographs showing Barbie and Francie dolls in various outfits.
Type of Material:
Photographs.
Subject:
Photography
Plastics
Popular culture
Barbie dolls -- 1970-1980.
Fashion.
Girls in popular culture -- United States.
Mod culture (Subculture)
Toys -- Design and construction.
Toy industry -- United States.
Women in popular culture -- United States.

Creator:
unknown
Inclusive Dates:
1890-1995
Abstract:
Commercially produced phonograph disc recordings. Speeds range from 45 RPM to 78 RPM. Sizes include 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 9.5, 10, 11 and 12-inch. The vast majority of the collection is comprised of 10 and 12 inch 78 RPM recordings released by American record companies.
Type of Material:
45 rpm records.
78 rpm records.
Audiotapes.
Long-playing records.
Phonograph records.
Sound recordings.
Subject:
Music
Popular culture
Folk music -- United States.
Jazz -- United States.
Music -- United States.
Music -- Latin America -- 20th century.
Music -- United States -- 20th century.
Popular music -- Latin America -- 20th century.
Popular music -- United States -- 20th century.

10.

Collection Title:
Creator:
unknown
Inclusive Dates:
1890-1929
Abstract:
Collection of early recorded music on commercially released 2-, 3- and 4-minute wax cylinders of standard diameter. The collection also includes small diameter to large diameter concert series cylinders as well as home recordings. Recordings cover a broad spectrum: classical, musical theatre, operetta, ballads, patriotic, dance band music, jazz and blues, ethnic and foreign language, religious, military marches, comedy, opera, children’s music songs and spoken word, country, vaudeville skits, speeches, instructional systems, foreign languages, office skills and test recordings. Also, more than 600 cylinder inserts.
Type of Material:
Sound recordings.
Cylinders (sound recordings)
Subject:
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Songs and music.
Music
Popular culture
Band music.
Big band music.
Cakewalk (Dance)
Carols.
Christmas music.
Christmas stories.
Old-time music.
Country music.
Dance orchestras.
German wit and humor.
Irish wit and humor.
Italian wit and humor.
Scottish wit and humor.
Jewish wit and humor.
Fiddle tunes.
Songs, Hawaiian.
Personal recordings.
Humorous recitations.
Hymns.
Jazz.
Marches.
Minstrel music.
Minstrel shows.
National songs.
Operas.
Orchestral music.
Patriotic music.
Polkas.
Popular music -- United States -- 19th century.
Popular music -- United States -- 20th century.
Ragtime music.
Sacred music.
Sermons.
Speeches, addresses, etc.
Spirituals (Songs)
String quartets.
Vaudeville -- United States.
Vaudeville songs.
Vocal duets.
Vocal quartets.
Waltzes.
Whistling.
Whistling music.
French language -- Study and teaching.
English language -- Study and teaching.
Italian language -- Study and teaching.
Spanish language -- Study and teaching.
German language -- Study and teaching.
Prohibition -- Songs and music.
Spanish-American War, 1898 -- Songs and music.
Transportation -- Songs and music.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Songs and music.

11.

Collection Title:
Creator:
unknown
Inclusive Dates:
1900-1980
Abstract:
Record sleeves from several dozen record companies, labels, stores and dealers, the majority located in the United States and a few in other countries.
Type of Material:
Record covers.
Picture sleeves.
Subject:
Music
Popular culture
Sound recording industry.

12.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Bell Music Box
Inclusive Dates:
1910-1963
Abstract:
Collection consists of non-commercial recordings on 78RPM, 45RPM, and 33RPM phonograph records and 1/4 inch audio tapes.
Type of Material:
45 rpm records.
78 rpm records.
Audiotapes.
Long-playing records.
Phonograph records.
Sound recordings.
Subject:
Music
Popular culture
Jazz -- United States.
American popular music.
20th century American music.
Music -- United States.
Radio broadcasting.
Radio advertising.

Creator:
Bell Music Box
Inclusive Dates:
1950-1982
Abstract:
A subset of the Bell Brothers Collection focusing on Latin American and Caribbean musical genres.
Type of Material:
45 rpm records.
78 rpm records.
Subject:
Music
Popular culture
Popular music -- 1971-1980.
Popular music -- Cuba -- 1961-1970.
Popular music -- Mexico -- 1961-1970.
Protest songs -- Puerto Rico.
Aguinaldos.
Boleros.(Music)
Bossa nova (Music)
Calypso (Music)
Charango music.
Cumbia (Music)
Danzones (Music)
Guaguancos (Music)
Guajira.
Guarachas (Music)
Huapangos (Music)
Mambos (Music)
Merengue (Dance)
Milongas (Music)
Pachangas (Music)
Pasillos (Music)
Paso dobles (Music)
Plenas.
Polkas.
Porros.
Rancheras.

14.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Shaktman, Ben, 1937-
Inclusive Dates:
1949-2009
Abstract:
Papers of the American playwright and director. Correspondence subject files; production material comprising research, notes, costume sketches, and drafts for plays by Bertolt Brecht, Eugene O'Neill, Arnold Wesker, Ben Shaktman and others; manuscripts; printed material (posters, playbills, programs, more); audiovisual material including audiotapes, photographs; material pertaining to Royal Court Theater in London, The Berliner Ensemble, Pittsburgh Public Theater (PPT), Theatre Nationale Populaire (TNP) in Paris, The National Endowment for the Arts; more
Type of Material:
Audiotapes.
Correspondence.
Diaries.
Drafts (documents)
Lecture notes.
Photographs.
Research notes.
Reviews (documents)
Scripts (documents)
Sketches.
Slides (photographs)
Theater programs.
Subject:
Directors.
Dramatists.
Dance and theatre
Popular culture
Acting -- Study and teaching.
African Americans in the performing arts.
Musicals -- Production and direction.
Television -- Production and direction.
Theater -- Production and direction.

15.

Collection Title:
Creator:
unknown
Inclusive Dates:
1800-1972
Abstract:
Ribbons, campaign literature, posters, photographs, clippings, etc. relating to x years of American campaigns
Type of Material:
Brochures.
Bumper stickers.
Buttons (information artifacts)
Clippings (information artifacts)
Invitations.
Songs (document genre)
Photographs.
Subject:
Politics, government and public administration
Popular culture
Campaign literature.
Campaign paraphernalia.
Campaign insignia.
Political campaigns -- Souvenirs (Keepsakes)
Political candidates -- Souvenirs (Keepsakes)
Political parties -- United States -- Souvenirs (Keepsakes)

16.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Allen, Charles
Inclusive Dates:
1945-1945
Abstract:
Comic strips, etching, and sketches by New York City cartoonist Charles Allen.
Type of Material:
Comic strips.
Cartoons (humorous images)
Sketches.
Etchings (prints)
Subject:
Cartoonists.
African American cartoonists.
Cartoonists -- United States -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Art -- Cartoonists
Popular culture
African Americans

Creator:
Palmer, Christopher
Inclusive Dates:
1935-1955
Abstract:
Original and reproduction motion picture music scores from 44 films, story synopses, production credits, cast lists, reviews and news clippings
Type of Material:
Clippings (information artifacts)
Reviews (documents)
Scores.
Synopses.
Subject:
Composers.
Popular culture
Music
Composers -- United States.
Conductors (Music) -- United States.
German Americans.
Motion picture music -- Scores.
Music -- 20th century.
Musicians -- United States.
Orchestral music -- Scores.

18.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Esquire, inc.
Inclusive Dates:
1935-1961
Abstract:
Correspondence, manuscripts, dummies and editorial materials.
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Manuscripts for publication.
Subject:
Coronet -- Archives.
Popular culture
Publishing, printing and book arts
Periodicals -- Publishing -- United States.
Journalism -- United States.

19.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
Inclusive Dates:
1964-1970
Abstract:
Scripts of the television series, including season schedules listing airing dates, re-runs, and pre-emptions.
Type of Material:
Television scripts.
Subject:
Daniel Boone (Television program)
Radio, television, film
Popular culture
Television scripts.
Television programs.
Historical television programs.
Adventure television programs.

20.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Labeille, Daniel.
Inclusive Dates:
1981-1981
Abstract:
Producer of the world premier of "Rockaby" (1980) by Samuel Beckett with Daniel C. Labeille as producer.
Type of Material:
Audiotapes.
Subject:
Dance and theatre
Popular culture
Plays.