Box 4265.001

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Edward R. Murrow was an American reporter sent overseas by CBS during World War II--a tour of journalism that made his name a household word back home. After his return to the states, Murrow, along with Fred Friendly, produced a radio news show called Hear It Now before later translating the program to television, where it became See It Now.

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This file contains one program from the presentation of the musical Rosalie, presented by the Municipal Theater Under-The-Stars at the Chastain Memorial Amphitheater in Atlanta, Georgia, July 19-24, 1954.

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This collection consists of an invitation from Governor and Mrs. George Wallace, Dr. and Mrs. Joseph Volker, and Mr. and Mrs. David Roberts, II, to attend the opening performance of the American Bicentennial Theater's production of Thornton Wilder's play, The Skin of Our Teeth, performed at the Birmingham-Jefferson County Civic Center, and to the supper following, at the Birmingham Hyatt House Hotel, June 23, 1975. A ticket for the supper accompanies the invitation.

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The file contains one undated Christmas card written by Isabel Halliburton to Gregory and Mrs. Peck. The inscription on the card indicates that Peck and Halliburton had worked together on "To Kill a Mockingbird." There is also a letter written in 2002 by Melissa Barton of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University to Ward Harrison of Jeffersonville, Indiana, concerning Harrison's desire for more information about Halliburton.

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This file contains a twenty-four-page booklet by G. E. Hamilton, How to Make Handmade Lantern Slides, published by Keystone View Company in Meadville, Pennsylvania. It also includes three glass slides along with papers manufactured by Radio-Mat Slide Company.

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The collection contains a single quilt pattern piece with instructions for selecting fabric colors and cutting. The only instruction for piecing the quilt is to be sure not to put two blocks of the same color together.

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The file contains one photograph of Hank Williams shaking the hand of a boy wearing a cowboy outfit, as men and women in dress clothes walk by in the background. The photograph is slightly pixelated and is printed on a piece of photo paper.

Scope and Contents This file contains five unsigned poems written on sheets of notebook paper, at least some of them in the same hand. The verses are on sexual and scatological themes and use terminology ranging from euphemisms to profanity. One poem purports to tell the origins of why dogs sniff each other's behinds; on the back of this poem is a note in pencil that says: "Please pas [sic] back." Other verses are about a conversation between a man and woman overheard and misunderstood by someone outside their...

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One article from the Winter 2001 issue of American Legacy magazine about the life and work of American sculptor Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller (1877-1968).

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One nrespaper article from February 16, 1996, about African American performing duo Buck and Bubbles (real names Ford Lee Washington and John William Sublett), who were popular in the 1920s and 1930s in Louisville, Kentucky.

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One book review for a volume of collected poems by American poet Langston Hughes (1901-1967) from The New York Times, February 8, 1995.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Wade Hall Collection on Arts and Culture contains poetry, correspondence, drawings, ephemera related to theater, music, sports, and crafts, and other items gathered by author and professor Wade Hall (1934-2015) that document participation in arts and leisure activities in the United States during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The materials in this collection are arranged into three series: Poetry, Lyrics, and Other Writings; General Arts and Leisure Materials; and Celebrity...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Wade Hall Collection on Arts and Culture contains poetry, correspondence, drawings, ephemera related to theater, music, sports, and crafts, and other items gathered by author and professor Wade Hall (1934-2015) that document participation in arts and leisure activities in the United States during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The materials in this collection are arranged into three series: Poetry, Lyrics, and Other Writings; General Arts and Leisure Materials; and Celebrity...

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This file contains a page bearing a pasted bookplate showing an an image of a monk writing with a quill, with the inscription "Ye Librarie of Robert E. Woods." On the other side of the page is a note that says: "Presented to Jennie, Dec. 25th, 1880, by R. E. Woods, 'Con Amore." "