Luther Davis Papers
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Davis, Luther
Davis, Joan Bassie
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1916-2007, undated
bulk 1936-2007
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14 Cubic feet (40 boxes, 1 oversize folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1148
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Luther Davis (1916-2008) was an awarding winning writer, playwright and screenwriter. He won a Antoinette Perry (Tony) Award in 1954 for the musical Kismet. He was the playwright for Lady in a Cage, and Grand Hotel and many other productions.
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Freberg, Stan, 1926-
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1958-1991
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0.3 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0444
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Stan Freberg (1926-2015) was a writer, performer, and satirist who pioneered the use of comedy in radio and television commercials during advertising's creative revolution in the 1960s. The collection includes examples of his work including his radio and television shows as well as some of his best known television commercials.
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Smithsonian Institution. Office of Telecommunications
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circa 1977 and undated
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0.25 cu. ft. (1 half document box)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 593
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This record unit consists of photographs of Cherkezian, circa 1977; Grayson, circa 1977; and Cornell, writer of the OTC film "Mirrors on the Universe: The MMT Story."Also included are photographs of the Emmy award received by OTC for the television show "The Smithsonian Institution with S. Dillon Ripley, Secretary," and images from the OTC ...
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Daytime TV Magazine.
Becker, Joyce
Sugarman, Allan
- Dates:
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1977-1983
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1 Cubic foot (3 boxes )
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0107
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection consists of issues of Daytime TV, from 1977 to 1983. Daytime TV was a magazine devoted exclusively to soap operas and soap opera actors.
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Blocki, Jim
Cook, Fielder
Durante, Al
Green, Chester
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1947-1992
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4.3 Cubic feet (5 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0464
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Oral history interviews with fourteen former Kraft and J. Walter Thompson executives chart the evolution of Kraft's approach to television, from its pioneering efforts in the medium's infancy to the search to maintain identity in an increasingly competitive and fragmented media landscape. Casting, directing, and production of the live dramas and the commercials are discussed at length. Kraft's philosophy of advertising, its relationship with J. Walter Thompson advertising agency and NBC, and consumer outreach are also featured.
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Levine, Ken, 1950- (scriptwriter)
Alda, Alan (actor, scriptwriter)
Bull, Sheldon (scriptwriter)
Bloodworth, Linda (scriptwriter)
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undated
1950 - 1982
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8.4 Cubic feet (25 boxes, 1 map-folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0117
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The television show M*A*S*H was initially broadcast from September 17, 1972 to February 28, 1983. It told the story of doctors and nurses assigned to a fictitious medical unit, the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital, based in Uijeongbu, Korea during the 1950-1953 war.
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Bereal, Edmund, 1937-
Drohojowska-Philp, Hunter
- Dates:
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2016 February 13
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7 Items (sound files (2 hrs., 45 min.), digital, wav)
63 Pages (Transcript)
- Collection ID:
- AAA.bereal16
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Archives of American Art
An interview of Ed Bereal, conducted 2016 February 13, by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp, for the Archives of American Art at the home of artist Warren Blakely, in Los Angeles, California.
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Clarke, Arthur C., Sir (Arthur Charles), 1917-2008
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1932-2012
bulk 1950-2008
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95.02 Cubic feet (188 legal size boxes; 5 15 x 12 x 3 flat boxes; 1 16 x 20 x 3 flat box; 4 12 x 8 x 5 shoeboxes)
88.55 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2015.0010
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
Sir Arthur C. Clarke is one of the preeminent science-fiction writers of the 20th century.
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Gussow, Alan, 1931-
- Dates:
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1956-1994
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2.8 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- AAA.gussalan
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Archives of American Art
Research material for Alan Gussow's book, A Sense of Place: the Artist and the American Land, and the related Nebraska Public Television production, symposium, and exhibition at Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, measures 2.8 linear feet and dates from 1956 to 1994. Research files include correspondence, photographs and color transparencies, sound recordings of 17 interviews with artists, a draft manuscript, publicity, reviews, and fan mail. Exhibition and symposium related material includes the proposal, correspondence, and printed matter. Public television production material includes correspondence, publicity, transcripts, soundtrack tapes, and film footage.
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Serros, Michele M.
Magana, Antonio
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1968-2012
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4 Cubic feet (2 boxes, 3 folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1481
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Michele M. Serros was a Chicana writer who grew up in Oxnard, California. She is best known for Chicana Falsa: And Other Stories of Death, Identity, and Oxnard and How to be a Chicana role model. The papers cover her childhood, high school work, undergraduate courses, published works, and speaking and workshop engagements. The collection also includes photographs, drawings, and her high school yearbook.