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Series 10. Catalog File, 1941-1969 | |||||||||||||
2.5 linear feet (6 boxes) | |||||||||||||
RPA 00826-00831 (boxes 357-362) | |||||||||||||
Oboler evidently maintained several filing systems for his personal and business records, which he variously identified as Catalog, Ranch, Town, and Fire files. The Catalog File series consists mainly of personal financial records, including household bills, automotive expenses, and travel expenses. However, there are also Catalog File materials on Oboler’s motion picture activities, including proposals and financial papers. The topical range of materials in the Catalog File is typical of many of Oboler’s miscellaneous paper accumulations. | |||||||||||||
The original arrangement of the Catalog File, roughly alphabetical by subject or correspondent, and chronological within folder, is retained, though this arrangement has certainly been disrupted over time by rehousing and moving of the materials. | |||||||||||||
Bills paid (ranch), 1941-1969 | |||||||||||||
BOX 357 FOLDER 1 | New building, ranch: welding, 1963 November-1965 April | ||||||||||||
BOX 357 FOLDER 2 | New house air conditioner, 1955 August-1963 | ||||||||||||
BOX 357 FOLDER 3 | New house auto, 1954 June-1957 January | ||||||||||||
BOX 357 FOLDER 4 | New house bomb shelter, 1957 September-1962 February | ||||||||||||
BOX 357 FOLDER 5 | New house building material, 1954 January-1963 April | ||||||||||||
BOX 357 FOLDER 6 | New house concrete, 1953 December-1968 August | ||||||||||||
BOX 357 FOLDER 7 | New house construction work, 1954 August-1955 February | ||||||||||||
BOX 357 FOLDER 8 | New house electrical, 1955-1967 | ||||||||||||
BOX 357 FOLDER 9-11 | New house equipment, 1952-1968 | ||||||||||||
BOX 358 FOLDER 1 | New house equipment repair, 1954 February-1963 October | ||||||||||||
BOX 358 FOLDER 2 | New house fire equipment, 1955 February-1959 September | ||||||||||||
BOX 358 FOLDER 3 | New house glass, 1955 March-1960 November | ||||||||||||
BOX 358 FOLDER 4 | New house hardware, 1954 August-1965 October | ||||||||||||
BOX 358 FOLDER 5 | New house, Harry Shaw, 1954 February-1965 October | ||||||||||||
BOX 358 FOLDER 6 | New house interiors, 1954-1965 | ||||||||||||
BOX 358 FOLDER 7 | New house Japanese garden, 1963 March-1966 February | ||||||||||||
BOX 358 FOLDER 8 | New house labor, 1954 January-1958 October | ||||||||||||
BOX 358 FOLDER 9 | New house lumber, 1954-1962 | ||||||||||||
BOX 358 FOLDER 10 | New house miscellaneous, 1954 October-1967 April | ||||||||||||
BOX 358 FOLDER 11 | New house paint, 1951 June-1959 September | ||||||||||||
BOX 358 FOLDER 12 | New house plumbing, 1941 August-1965 November | ||||||||||||
BOX 358 FOLDER 13 | New house pool, 1954 January-1966 March | ||||||||||||
BOX 358 FOLDER 14 | New house professional service, 1954 January-1956 February | ||||||||||||
BOX 359 FOLDER 1 | New house pumps, 1953 May-1957 October | ||||||||||||
BOX 359 FOLDER 2 | New house rental, 1952 November-1967 July | ||||||||||||
BOX 359 FOLDER 3 | New house roofing, 1954 December-1957 March | ||||||||||||
BOX 359 FOLDER 4 | New house steel, 1954 December-1958 March | ||||||||||||
BOX 359 FOLDER 5 | New house wells, 1958 February-1964 September | ||||||||||||
BOX 359 FOLDER 6 | Ranch equipment, 1966 November-1969 February | ||||||||||||
BOX 359 FOLDER 7 | Ranch garden, 1964 April-1965 May | ||||||||||||
BOX 359 FOLDER 8 | Bills paid, and correspondence concerning the new building (ranch) and Southern California Edison, 1955 October-1962 September | ||||||||||||
BOX 359 FOLDER 9 | Building Department correspondence, new house, 1954 December-1959 June | ||||||||||||
BOX 359 FOLDER 10 | Dam, new building, 1955 August | ||||||||||||
BOX 359 FOLDER 11 | New building invoices, 1955 January-February | ||||||||||||
BOX 359 FOLDER 12 | New building receipts, signs, 1959 July-1966 June | ||||||||||||
BOX 359 FOLDER 13 | Ranch instructions, diagrams, 1956 September | ||||||||||||
BOX 359 FOLDER 14 | Miscellaneous requests concerning the ranch, 1960 May | ||||||||||||
European trip information and catalogs, 1949-1967 | |||||||||||||
BOX 359 FOLDER 15 | Switzerland, 1953 September-December | ||||||||||||
BOX 359 FOLDER 16 | Italy catalogs, 1953 September and undated | ||||||||||||
BOX 359 FOLDER 17 | France, 1953 January-August | ||||||||||||
BOX 359 FOLDER 18 | Miscellaneous, 1949 October-1967 September | ||||||||||||
BOX 359 FOLDER 19 | Norway, 1953 May-1954 June | ||||||||||||
BOX 359 FOLDER 20 | Sweden, 1951-1954 August | ||||||||||||
Miscellaneous, 1952-1958 | |||||||||||||
BOX 359 FOLDER 21 | Auto information and catalogues, 1952 February-1954 March | ||||||||||||
BOX 359 FOLDER 22 | Government, 1953 February-March | ||||||||||||
BOX 359 FOLDER 23 | Index to file, undated | ||||||||||||
BOX 359 FOLDER 24 | Ranch filing, 1954-1958 | ||||||||||||
Motion picture data, 1947-1969 | |||||||||||||
BOX 359 FOLDER 25 | Lumia-Wilfred, 1947 June-1959 April | ||||||||||||
BOX 359 FOLDER 26 | Advertising, 1962 June-1965 March | ||||||||||||
BOX 359 FOLDER 27 | Budgets, 1951-1959 | ||||||||||||
BOX 359 FOLDER 28 | Motion picture code, 1954 March | ||||||||||||
BOX 360 FOLDER 1 | Copyright search, 1967 March | ||||||||||||
BOX 360 FOLDER 2 | Distribution information, 1952 December-1965 March | ||||||||||||
BOX 360 FOLDER 3-6 | Equipment, 1951-1966 | ||||||||||||
BOX 360 FOLDER 7 | Equipment: catagators and snowmobiles, 1965 May-1966 April | ||||||||||||
BOX 360 FOLDER 8 | Europe, 1952 October-1953 August | ||||||||||||
BOX 360 FOLDER 9 | Film stock, 1954 May-1966 January | ||||||||||||
BOX 360 FOLDER 10 | Location possibilities, 1952 April-1967 | ||||||||||||
BOX 360 FOLDER 11 | Material file, 1960 June | ||||||||||||
BOX 360 FOLDER 12 | News, 1960 June | ||||||||||||
BOX 360 FOLDER 13 | Possible investors, 1954 May-1965 July | ||||||||||||
BOX 360 FOLDER 14 | Motion picture references, undated | ||||||||||||
BOX 360 FOLDER 15 | Research (catalog file), undated | ||||||||||||
BOX 360 FOLDER 16 | Miscellaneous services, 1952 September-1965 | ||||||||||||
BOX 361 FOLDER 1-2 | Sound equipment, 1953 February-1967 April | ||||||||||||
BOX 361 FOLDER 3 | Still shots, undated | ||||||||||||
BOX 361 FOLDER 4-5 | Studios, 1954 May-1969 April | ||||||||||||
BOX 361 FOLDER 6 | Title information, 1950 June-1958 July | ||||||||||||
BOX 361 FOLDER 7 | Canned music, 1965 and undated | ||||||||||||
BOX 361 FOLDER 8 | Film labs, 1953 June-1968 July | ||||||||||||
BOX 361 FOLDER 9 | Kline free properties, 1956 April-1957 September | ||||||||||||
BOX 362 FOLDER 1 | Possible employees, 1952 December-1967 May | ||||||||||||
BOX 362 FOLDER 2 | Publicity, 1967 June | ||||||||||||
Personal bills paid, 1948-1968 | |||||||||||||
BOX 362 FOLDER 3 | Accounting, 1958 August-1960 August | ||||||||||||
BOX 362 FOLDER 4 | American Airlines, 1953 May-1965 August | ||||||||||||
BOX 362 FOLDER 5 | Advertising, 1958 December-1963 November | ||||||||||||
BOX 362 FOLDER 6-7 | African Adventure, 1950, 1948 May-1953 March | ||||||||||||
BOX 362 FOLDER 8 | Employees, 1960, 1960 May-1965 October | ||||||||||||
BOX 362 FOLDER 9 | "1st Pregnant Man," 1964 July-1968 February | ||||||||||||
BOX 362 FOLDER 10 | Kinsey movie, 1958 August-1960 September | ||||||||||||
BOX 362 FOLDER 11 | Lefkowitz & Co., 1954 October-1965 March | ||||||||||||
BOX 362 FOLDER 12 | Legal, 1953 March-1962 December | ||||||||||||
BOX 362 FOLDER 13 | Merrill Granger, 1960 March-1965 May | ||||||||||||
BOX 362 FOLDER 14 | Preview theater, 1960 December-1966 January | ||||||||||||
BOX 362 FOLDER 15 | Trade magazines, 1960 February-1964 April | ||||||||||||
BOX 362 FOLDER 16 | Unions, 1956 March-1966 September | ||||||||||||
BOX 362 FOLDER 17 | Duell, Sloan & Pearce and Decca Records, African Adventure, 1949 February-1957 July | ||||||||||||
BOX 362 FOLDER 18 | Burrelle's, 1953 April-1954 February | ||||||||||||
BOX 362 FOLDER 19 | Capitol Records, 1962 November-1963 October | ||||||||||||
BOX 362 FOLDER 20 | TV brochure, 1957 October-1958 December | ||||||||||||
Series 11. Sound Recordings, 1938-1987 and undated | |||||||||||||
Location: IDB 45706-45708; NCPB 08616; RAA 53177-53178, 53180-53190, 53192-53211; RXF 8601-8625, 8627-8640, 8642-8673; RYM 4627-4738, 4820-4821; RYN 2246-2255 | |||||||||||||
The collection contains approximately 107 7-inch and 10-inch Mylar and acetate
sound tape reels; 124 analog audiocassettes; 1 12-inch and 2 10-inch
aluminum-based lacquer discs; and 1 12-inch vinyl transcription disc. The
recordings consist mainly of episodes from Oboler radio series such as Lights Out, Plays for Americans, Everything for the Boys, and Everyman's Theater, but there are also announcements, sound effects, and music from some of
his motion pictures, as well as radio compilations, demos, and outtakes. Also included in the collection but not yet processed are approximately 785 unpublished flexi discs (sound sheets) of various sizes and colors, including Edison Voicewriter and Gray Audograph discs; 20 audiocassettes that are as yet unidentified; and 12 commercial 8-track tape cartridges. |
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For more information about the sound recordings and their availability for listening purposes, please contact the Recorded Sound Research Center, Library of Congress, Washington, DC, 20540-4690; (202) 707-7833; http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mbrsrs/mbrsrs.contact. |