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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. |
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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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