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Series 8. Ranch Files, 1927-1977 (bulk 1950-1970)
8.4 linear feet (20 boxes)
RPA 00639-00658 (boxes 170-189); RPB 00111 (box OS 4)
The so-called “Ranch Files,” possibly so named because they were papers kept at Oboler’s residence, focus in large part on Oboler’s business activities in his post-World War II career. An extensive series, it does include some papers from his earlier career.
The contents of the series are widely varied, with materials on non-business subjects such as his Volkswagen automobiles, a bomb shelter on his property, and office equipment purchases as well as a few papers on an early film project, This Precious Freedom, a number of 1950s television proposals, and papers about LP record and commercial radio broadcast revivals of his classic radio stories.
Arranged alphabetically by subject or correspondent and generally chronologically within file.
"A" miscellaneous, 1945-1968
BOX 170 FOLDER 1 1953 April-1954 June
BOX 170 FOLDER 2-3 Actors, 1952-1958
BOX 170 FOLDER 4 Actors, television correspondence, 1957 October
BOX 170 FOLDER 5-6 Actors and actresses, 1952-1964
BOX 170 FOLDER 7 Actresses, 1953-1967
BOX 170 FOLDER 8 Airplane stunt, 1954 September-October
BOX 170 FOLDER 9 Antioch College, 1963 April-1965 July
BOX 170 FOLDER 10 Art objects, future purchase, 1959 April-1965 February
BOX 170 FOLDER 11 Articles not sold, 1968 September , undated
BOX 170 FOLDER 12 Articles submitted, 1947 November-1968 June
BOX 171 FOLDER 1 Autos, Volkswagen, 1953 May-1963
BOX 171 FOLDER 2 Awards, 1945-1964 December
Africa, 1947-1955
BOX 171 FOLDER 3 African Adventure, 1947 June , undated
BOX 171 FOLDER 4 Arch Oboler's African Adventure, Decca Records brochure, circa 1950
BOX 171 FOLDER 5 African file and tape lists, 1948 February-1952 January
BOX 171 FOLDER 6 African radio series, 1955 March-April
BOX 171 FOLDER 7 African sound recordings, 1948 December
BOX 171 FOLDER 8 List of African film, 1948 February-1952 July
Agents, 1951-1975
BOX 171 FOLDER 9 Annie Laurie Williams, Inc., 1956-1957
BOX 171 FOLDER 10 Ashley-Steiner, 1959 April-July
BOX 171 FOLDER 11 Ashley-Steiner correspondence with Alden Schwimmer, 1959
BOX 171 FOLDER 12 Cooper, Frank, 1961 December-1962 April
BOX 171 FOLDER 13 Durgom-Katz, 1963-1964
BOX 171 FOLDER 14 Frank, Sundel, 1959-1962
BOX 171 FOLDER 15-16 Hellmer, Kurt, 1956-1975
BOX 171 FOLDER 17 Jack Stewart Agency, 1963-1968
BOX 171 FOLDER 18 MCA (Music Corporation of America), 1951-1962
BOX 171 FOLDER 19 Miscellaneous and possible new agents, 1957-1966
BOX 171 FOLDER 20 Saphier, Jimmy, 1957-1965
BOX 172 FOLDER 1 William Morris Agency, 1952-1958
"B" miscellaneous, 1952-1968
BOX 172 FOLDER 2 1952-1966
BOX 172 FOLDER 3 Black, Ivan, 1953 May-1963 May
BOX 172 FOLDER 4 Black, Ivan, newsprint, 1953 September-1963 March
BOX 172 FOLDER 5 Blowitz, Bill, 1956 August
BOX 172 FOLDER 6 Bobrow, Norm, 1963 December-1968 October
Bookkeeping
BOX 172 FOLDER 7 Bwana Devil, J. Factor/govt., 1960 June-1962 January
BOX 172 FOLDER 8 Midwestern Financial report, 1964 February
BOX 172 FOLDER 9 Boston University, Mugar Memorial Library correspondence, 1964 November-1966 October
BOX 172 FOLDER 10 Broadway directors, 1960 June
BOX 172 FOLDER 11 Broadway investors, 1956-1963
"Bwana Bus"
BOX 172 FOLDER 12 1952 February-1961 December
BOX 172 FOLDER 13 Catalogue information, 1953-1955
Books, 1944-1971
BOX 172 FOLDER 14 Book, Bernard Geis and Associates, submitted 1968, 1959 March-1971 March
BOX 172 FOLDER 15 Oboler Omnibus, 1944 October-1965 February
BOX 172 FOLDER 16 Publisher's names, 1958 February-1968 June
BOX 172 FOLDER 17 "Ranch and I," 1964 September-November
Published as "The Jackasses and I," Reader's Digest, v. 69, no. 415, November 1956.
BOX 172 FOLDER 18 Ranch, Crowell, 1960 June-1965 August
"C" miscellaneous, 1953-1964
BOX 173 FOLDER 1 1953 March-1959 April
Capitol Records
BOX 173 FOLDER 2 Drop Dead! promotion, 1962 September-1964 September
BOX 173 FOLDER 3 Drop Dead! record information, 1961 May-1963 December
BOX 173 FOLDER 4 Lights Out #1, undated
BOX 173 FOLDER 5 Publicity, 1962 October
BOX 173 FOLDER 6 C.B.S., 1956 February
BOX 173 FOLDER 7 Citizen file, 1958 September-October
BOX 173 FOLDER 8 Coronet correspondence, 1959 November-1961 March
Contracts, 1937-1972
BOX 173 FOLDER 9 African Adventure, 1950 August-1959 July
BOX 173 FOLDER 10 Ashley-Steiner, 1959 April-November
BOX 173 FOLDER 11 "Big Ben," 1954 February-May
BOX 173 FOLDER 12 Bernier contracts, 1951 June-1972 November
BOX 173 FOLDER 13 Correspondence, fire file, contracts, Bubble debt agreements, not used, 1964 November
Bwana Devil
BOX 173 FOLDER 14 "Bwana Bus," 1954 April-August
BOX 173 FOLDER 15 Contracts, 1953 January-1956 October
BOX 173 FOLDER 16 United Artists, 1952 July-1958 September
BOX 173 FOLDER 17 Music, Radio Recorders Annex, 1952 August
BOX 174 FOLDER 1 Compass Prod., Inc., and George Schaeffer correspondence, 1960 January-September
BOX 174 FOLDER 2 Cooper, 1961 November-1962 July
BOX 174 FOLDER 3 Chudnow contracts, 1963 August-September
BOX 174 FOLDER 4 Day After Tomorrow, 1942 August, 1952 August
Alternate title for a film directed by Oboler and released as Strange Holiday in 1945.
BOX 174 FOLDER 5 Depth, 1953 January-1955 April
BOX 174 FOLDER 6 Durgom, 1963 May-1964 January
BOX 174 FOLDER 7 Fairbanks, Salerno, 1957 December-1959 January
BOX 174 FOLDER 8-9 Five, 1950-1952
BOX 175 FOLDER 1 773, contracts regarding "The Flying Yorkshireman," 1937 October-1941 November
BOX 175 FOLDER 2 Four Star, 1961 August-1962 June
BOX 175 FOLDER 3 Frank, Sundel, 1959 October-1961 November
BOX 175 FOLDER 4 "Gleason" scripts, 1956 October-1957 May
BOX 175 FOLDER 5 Goodman, African Adventure, 1959 December-1961 June
BOX 175 FOLDER 6 Sulway Goodman, 1960 January-1962 February
BOX 175 FOLDER 7 Grayson, 1957 September
BOX 175 FOLDER 8 Hall, Bob, 1953 March-November
BOX 175 FOLDER 9 Happy Holiday, 1954 July-December
BOX 175 FOLDER 10 Hi, Grandma!, 1957 December
BOX 175 FOLDER 11 Hellmer, Kurt, 1956 November-1958 August
BOX 175 FOLDER 12 Al Lewis and budget, 1959 April-August
BOX 175 FOLDER 13 "This Lonely Heart," 1960 September-November
Magic
BOX 175 FOLDER 14 Edwin Skidmore, 1954 August
BOX 175 FOLDER 15 Sight & Sound, 1954 September-1955 August
BOX 175 FOLDER 16 National Theatre, 1952 September-1955 January
BOX 175 FOLDER 17 Thermalarm, 1953 March-1954 February
MCA
BOX 176 FOLDER 1 Radio, "Adventure in Tomorrow," 1950 January, 1965 February
BOX 176 FOLDER 2 Television, Kramer, 1949 April-1958 September
Miscellaneous contracts
BOX 176 FOLDER 3 1939 September-1952 August
BOX 176 FOLDER 4 1945 March-1961 May
BOX 176 FOLDER 5 1950 May-1955 March
BOX 176 FOLDER 6 1965 January
BOX 176 FOLDER 7 Polocoat and depth viewer, 1953 January-1961 November
BOX 176 FOLDER 8 Redell, 1960 January-1963 January
BOX 176 FOLDER 9 Sculptor Michael Redman, 1968 June
BOX 176 FOLDER 10 Jimmy Saphier, 1957 December-1959 March
BOX 176 FOLDER 11 George Schaeffer, 1952 November-1953 August
BOX 176 FOLDER 12 Spear in the Sand, 1949 December-1957 May
BOX 177 FOLDER 1 Story purchase rights, 1941 January-1949 June
"This Precious Freedom"
BOX 177 FOLDER 2 1942 January-1952 May
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