Consists of the correspondence, papers and memorabilia relating to the career of Orson Welles. Includes 142 bound scripts and more than 140 sound recordings for most of the programs and series in which Welles appeared after 1937, including Mercury Theatre on the Air, Campbell Playhouse, Orson Welles Almanac (Lady Esther), Ceiling Unlimited, Hello Americans, This Is My Best and Mercury Summer Theatre. See detailed online finding aid at www.indiana.edu/~liblilly/lilly/mss/html/welles.html. See also Weissberger Mss. Collection for additional Welles radio related material and additional Welles collection covering his film career.
Consists of correspondence, writings and memorabilia of William Anthony Parker White, critic, editor and writer most widely known by the pseudonym Anthony Boucher. Includes scripts and extensive files for the series Adventures of Ellery Queen, The Casebook of Gregory Hood and Sherlock Holmes, all dating from the mid-1940s.
Consists mostly of scripts for NBC affiliated, Chicago based programs collected by William Wokoun. Includes The Guiding Light, Captain Midnight, Lone Journey, Ma Perkins, Masquerade, The Road of Life, Today's Children, Vic and Sade and Woman in White. Also includes emcee scripts for music and variety shows and commercial scripts for various products and companies. See online finding aid for complete list.
Contains personal and professional papers, including materials and photographs relating to the comedy team of Olsen and Johnson and their shows. Materials range from their vaudeville days beginning in the 1920s through their success on Broadway and radio in the 1930s and 1940s to their later years performing in smaller venues in the 1950s. Includes radio scripts from 1930s and 1950s.
Repository/Collector:
Manuscripts and Visual Collections Department, William Henry Smith Memorial Library
Contains correspondence, financial records, manuscripts, subject files and sound recordings of his programs Notre Dame Authors and The Story of Notre Dame, ca. 1940s. Check online finding aid for details.
Repository/Collector:
University of Notre Dame Archives, University of Notre Dame du Lac