The Harvey Orkin Collection predominately contains materials about the latter part of Orkin’s life. As a television writer and talent agent, Orkin corresponded with many known writers and actors such as Peter Sellers, John Cleese, Richard Burton, ...
The Jack Stein Collection contains a wide variety of materials ranging from photographs of television studios and movie sets to items of makeup developed by Stein’s brand. Spanning nearly a century, the collection covers many aspects of Stein’s ca...
The collection includes materials related to Sylvia Lewis' career including but not limited to: photographs, contracts, scripts, sheet music, publicity publications, magazines, lobby cards, posters, personal correspondence, 16mm films, VHS ta...
The Ethel Berner Babbitt Collection consists of materials related to the life of Emerson College alumna Ethel Berner Babbitt, including schoolbooks, photograph albums, scrapbooks, manuscripts, and written personal correspondence.
The Bill Dana Oral History Collection, 2005-2007, 2016-, consists of sixty-eight audio-visual interviews of a cross section of comedy experts, writers, producers, directors, and noted comedians who have had a direct influence on the history of the...
The Collection documents the career and professional achievements of Janis Paige, an actress and singer. The materials include every filmed episodes of It’s Always Jan along with the corresponding script. The collection also includes videos of fil...
The Emersonian yearbook began production in 1908 and is still currently being produced. For several years (1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 and 1996), a video yearbook was produced in addition to the printed yearbook. Beginning in 2016, the Emer...
The Florence Markoff Collection consists of materials that span over 70 years, dating between 1937 and 2015. Over half of the collection consists of radio scripts for Markoff’s three radio programs: There’s a Word for It, Rhode Island Portraits in...
The Carl L. Tarnstrom Joke Collection is made up of a series of jokes, gags, and “odds and ends” collected and typed up by Tarnstrom himself for a period of over thirty years between the mid-1940s to the early-1980s. He gathered these jokes from t...
The Budd Friedman and Tripp Whetsell collection, ca. 2002-2018, consists of 89 audio interview recordings with prominent comedians, producers, comedic writers, actors, singers, directors, talent managers, and journalists. In addition, there is on...
The materials donated by Aaron Mintz contain audio cassette tapes and compact discs featuring both rare and popular radio programs, most of which were originally broadcast between the 1930s and 1960s. While some material extends beyond this date r...
The William Gitt Film Poster Collection contains different movie posters and advertising material from the 1930s through the 1960s. The collection primarily consists of 27" by 41" “One-Sheet” posters and 11" by 14" Lobby Cards....
This collection encompasses theatre programs, playbills, and memorabilia from hundreds of theatres throughout the United States and London, with the bulk of the materials from Boston, New York, and London. The materials range in date from 1855 thr...