The Samuel C. O. Holt papers include materials from 1951 through 1995. The bulk of the collection dates from 1967 to 1983 and relates to Holt's work as project director of the Public Radio Study from 1967 to 1969, as PBS's Coordinator of Programming from 1970 to 1973 and as NPR's Senior Vice President for Programming from 1977 to 1983. Additionally, there is a significant amount of material from Holt's consulting activities. Most of the collection consists of reports and proposals concerning public broadcasting programming, funding, and research. Also present are intermittent chronological files of business correspondence, memoranda, minutes, maps, and video and audio cassette tapes.
Repository/Collector:
Special Collections in Mass Media & Culture, University of Maryland