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Autographed portraits of associates of Lawrence Spivak, April 19, 1954
Call No.: LOT 11683 (H)
Extent: 5 photographic prints (in mats) : b&w ; 13 x 10 in. or smaller.
Portraits of five U.S. senators by Life magazine photographer Hank Walker. Sitters include Senators Eugene Millikin, Clyde Hoey, Leverett Saltonstall, Styles Bridges, and Alexander Wiley. Mats are autographed with the names of the sitters and a message to Spivak.
Reproductions of cartoons and advertisements relating to Meet the Press, ca. 1956-1968
Call No.: LOT 11684 (H)
Extent: 14 photomechanical prints (on mounts) ; 30 x 20 in.
Reproductions of "L'il Abner" cartoon strips by Al Capp and other cartoons and comic strips depicting Meet the Press or Lawrence Spivak, which appeared in various newspapers and magazines. Also includes one advertisement for a 1956 appearance of Meet the Press producer Lawrence Spivak at the "Mammoth Grotto Show" in Narragansett Park.
Photographs from Meet the Press radio and television programs, 1945-1980, (bulk 1945-1975, 1979-1980)
Call No.: LOT 13025 (F)
Extent: 4,560 photographic prints : b&w and some color ; 8 x 10 in. or smaller.
Extent: 617 contact sheets (7,134 images) : b&w ; 9 x 12 in. or smaller.
Images from 1,462 Meet the Press shows are included in this collection. The majority of the photographs depict guests, panels of journalists, producers Lawrence Spivak and Martha Rountree, and moderators Rountree, Spivak, Ned Brooks, and others posed on the set of the Meet the Press show. Some images show production equipment, backstage scenes, and views of the audience. Also includes some publicity photographs of guests. Included are national and international figures such as heads of state, presidential candidates, members of Congress, mayors, governors, cabinet officers, civil rights leaders, labor leaders, economists, ambassadors, and physicians. Occasionally a cultural or sports figure appears such as Carl Sandburg, Robert Frost, Edward Steichen, and Jackie Robinson. Guests who appeared on the program 10 or more times include: J. William Fulbright, Walter W. Heller, Hubert H. Humphrey, Henry M. Jackson, William F. Knowland, John V. Lindsay, Henry Cabot Lodge, Mike Mansfield, Edmund S. Muskie, Nelson A. Rockefeller, Sargent Shriver, Stuart Symington, Robert A. Taft, and George C. Wallace. Topics discussed on Meet the Press included international relations, domestic policy, congressional legislation, civil rights, political elections, the Vietnam War, McCarthyism, health care, the Watergate Affair, and the Cold War.
Arranged into two series: Radio and Television, and then arranged chronologically by Meet the Press show date.
Radio programs, 1945-1950
BOX 1 October 5, 1945
Guest: Johnston, Eric
Call No.: LOT 13025-1 (F)
Extent: 2 items
BOX 1 October 12, 1945
Guest: Wallace, Henry A.
Call No.: LOT 13025-2a (F)
Extent: 1 item
BOX 1 November 2, 1945
Guest: Bridges, Harry
Call No.: LOT 13025-2b (F)
Extent: 1 item
BOX 1 November 9, 1945
Guest: Porter, Paul
Call No.: LOT 13025-3 (F)
Extent: 2 items
BOX 1 November 16, 1945
Guest: Oppenheimer, J. Robert
Call No.: LOT 13025-4 (F)
Extent: 1 item
BOX 1 August 2, 1946
Guest: Talmadge, Herman E.
Call No.: LOT 13025-5 (F)
Extent: 1 item
BOX 1 January 10, 1947
Guest: Wallace, Henry A.
Call No.: LOT 13025-6 (F)
Extent: 1 item
BOX 1 March 7, 1947
Guest: Krug, J.A.
Call No.: LOT 13025-7 (F)
Extent: 1 item
BOX 1 June 27, 1947
Guest: Stassen, Harold E.
Call No.: LOT 13025-8 (F)
Extent: 1 item
BOX 1 July 4, 1947
Guest: McCarthy, Joseph R.
Call No.: LOT 13025-9 (F)
Extent: 1 item
BOX 1 August 8, 1947
Guest: Brewster, Owen
Call No.: LOT 13025-10 (F)
Extent: 1 item
September 26, 1947
Guest: Malone, George W.
Extent: Empty
See LOT 13026, no. 1 (F)
BOX 1 December 19, 1947
Guest: Taft, Robert A.
Call No.: LOT 13025-11 (F)
Extent: 1 item
BOX 1 February 20, 1948
Guest: Warren, Earl
Call No.: LOT 13025-12 (F)
Extent: 5 items
BOX 1 March 5, 1948
Guest: Farley, James A.
Call No.: LOT 13025-13 (F)
Extent: 1 item
BOX 1 April 16, 1948
Guest: Lodge, Henry Cabot, Jr.
Call No.: LOT 13025-14 (F)
Extent: 4 items
BOX 1 August 13, 1948
Guest: Bentley, Elizabeth
Call No.: LOT 13025-15 (F)
Extent: 1 item
BOX 1 August 27, 1948
Guest: Chambers, Whittaker
Call No.: LOT 13025-16 (F)
Extent: 2 items
October 1, 1948
Guest: Ferguson, Homer
Extent: Empty
See LOT 13026, no. 2 (F)
BOX 1 October 29, 1948
Guest: Thurmond, Strom J.
Call No.: LOT 13025-17 (F)
Extent: 2 items
BOX 1 December 3, 1948
Guest: Ewing, Oscar
Call No.: LOT 13025-18 (F)
Extent: 2 items
See also LOT 13026, no. 3 (F)
BOX 1 December 31, 1948
Guest: Lucas, Scott W.
Call No.: LOT 13025-19 (F)
Extent: 2 items
BOX 1 January 7, 1949
Guest: Ives, Irving M.
Call No.: LOT 13025-20 (F)
Extent: 1 item
BOX 1 January 21, 1949
Guest: Taft, Robert A.
Call No.: LOT 13025-21 (F)
Extent: 1 item
BOX 1 January 28, 1949
Guest: Brewster, Owen
Call No.: LOT 13025-22 (F)
Extent: 3 items
BOX 1 February 11, 1949
Guest: Thomas, Elbert D.
Call No.: LOT 13025-23 (F)
Extent: 1 item
BOX 1 February 18, 1949
Guest: Keyserling, Leon H.
Call No.: LOT 13025-24 (F)
Extent: 1 item
BOX 1 February 25, 1949
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