Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Collection Summary
| Title | Eric Sevareid papers, 1909-1993 |
|---|---|
| Span Dates | 1909-1993 |
| Bulk Dates | (bulk 1940-1992) |
| ID No. | MSS39495 |
| Creator | Sevareid, Eric, 1912-1992 |
| Extent | 50,500 items |
| Extent | 146 containers plus 1 oversize |
| Extent | 59 linear feet |
| Extent | 17 microfilm reels |
| Language | Collection material in English |
| Location | Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. |
| Finding Aid Permalink | Cite or bookmark this finding aid as: https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms001003 |
| LCCN Permalink | LC Catalog record: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm78039495 |
| Summary | Journalist, radio and television commentator, and author. Includes correspondence, fan mail, radio and television scripts, news analyses, lectures, speeches, writings, book and subject files, awards, newspaper clippings, printed matter, photographs, and other papers but primarily consisting of scripts of Sevareid's radio and television news broadcasts and analyses documenting his career with the Columbia Broadcasting System from World War II as a correspondent in Burma, China, and western Europe, as chief Washington, D.C., correspondent from 1946 to 1959, and as news analyst and essayist until his retirement from CBS News in 1977. |