Art Buchwald papers, 1885-2007 (Library of Congress Finding Aid)

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BOX 192-222	Personal File, 1885-2007
		The Personal File documents Buchwald’s youth, early career in Paris, France, family, health, and death. The bulk of the material chronicles Buchwald’s childhood in the Hebrew Orphan Asylum’s foster care system, service in the United States Marine Corps, and years at the University of Southern California. Documents and printed ephemera reflecting Buchwald’s fourteen years in Paris (1948-1962) are comprised in this series and document his work as a critic and humorist for the New York Herald Tribune, as well as his household and family life at that time. The Personal File also contains Buchwald’s family papers, which include letters with his sisters, in-laws, and other family members and documents collected and created by Buchwald’s wife, Ann. Ann Buchwald’s papers contain correspondence with Art and other members of her family, as well as transcripts and drafts of her memoir, Seems Like Yesterday. Early examples of Buchwald’s writings are found throughout the Personal File beginning with a poem written when he was twelve years old, circa 1937. Several newsletters for which Buchwald wrote while in the United States Marine Corps, including The Coral Courier and The U-Man Comedy, are also in this series. His academic essays, produced for courses in creative and script writing at the University of Southern California, are well represented, as are pieces written for school publications, The Daily Trojan and WAMPUS. This series also includes early columns Buchwald wrote while in Paris. These consist of articles written in 1948 when he was a stringer for Variety and article drafts for the New York Herald Tribune. Material types include address and appointment books, correspondence, digital files, family papers, honorary degrees and awards, oral histories, medical files, military documents, identification cards, marriage documents, photographs, and wills.
		Arranged alphabetically by topic or material type. File structure of the digital content included in this series was maintained as received.
BOX 192		Address books
BOX 192			Association de la Presse Anglo-Américaine de Paris, 1959
BOX 192			Duplicate addresses, circa 2002
				(2 folders)
BOX 192			European numbers, circa 1962-circa 1992
				(2 folders)
BOX 193			European numbers, circa 1962-circa 1992
				(6 folders)
BOX 193			Household numbers, circa 1974-circa 1987
				(5 folders)
BOX 194			Household numbers, circa 1974-circa 1987
				(3 folders)
BOX 194			Rolodex, circa 1990-circa 1998
				(5 folders)
BOX 194			Untitled books
BOX 194				Book 1, circa 1964
					(2 folders)
BOX 195				Book 2, circa 1974-circa 1975
					(1 folder)
BOX 195				Book 3, circa 1974-circa 1977
					(2 folders)
BOX 195				Book 4, circa 1977-circa 1982
					(6 folders)
BOX 196				Book 4, circa 1977-circa 1982
					(2 folders)
BOX 196				Book 5, circa 1980-circa 1991
					(3 folders)
BOX 196				Book 6, 1995
BOX 196				Book 7, 1997
BOX 196			Washington numbers, circa 2003, 2005
				(2 folders)
BOX 196		Appointment and address books
BOX 196			1948-1962
				(1 folder)
BOX 197			1948-1972
				(4 folders)
BOX 198			1972-1980
				(3 folders)
BOX 199			1981-1988
				(3 folders)
BOX 200			1991-2004, undated
				(4 folders)
BOX 201			undated
				(3 folders)
BOX 201		Artworks and artifacts
BOX 201			Billfold, undated
BOX 201			"The Buchwald Stops Here" nameplate, undated
BOX 201			Miscellany, 1949-2004 See Container OV 17, Photographs
BOX 201			Paintings and prints, 1959-1960, undated See Container OV 11, same heading
BOX 201			Paul VI, Pope, trip to Israel, 1964
BOX 202			Wallet at time of death, 2007
BOX 202		Awards and honors
DF			First Order of the Owl award, PowerPoint presentation, National Press Club, 2004
				Digital ID: mss86197_178_229
BOX 202			Honorary degrees
BOX 202				Brandeis University, Waltham, Mass., 1987
BOX 202				College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Mass., 1988
BOX 202				College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va., 1980
BOX 202				Emerson College, Boston, Mass., 1978
BOX 202				Gallaudet College, Washington, D.C., 1976
BOX 202				Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., 1979
BOX 202				Lakeland College, Sheboygan, Wis., 2000
BOX 202				Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, 1974
BOX 202				Providence College, Providence, R.I., 1970
BOX 202				Roger Williams College, Bristol, R.I., 1971
BOX 202				Roosevelt University, Chicago, Ill., 1981
BOX 202				University of San Diego, San Diego, Calif., 1976
BOX 202				University of Southern California, Los Angeles, Calif., 1992-1993
					(2 folders)
BOX 202				Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., 1975
BOX 203				Washington College, Chestertown, Md., 1985
BOX 203				Washington University, St. Louis, Mo., 1975
BOX 203				Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn., 1969
BOX 203				Yale University, New Haven, Conn., 1970
BOX 203			Joke awards, 1965-1978, 1987-1992, undated See also Containers OV 7 and OV 17, Certificates
BOX 203			Other awards, 1958-2006, undated
				(3 folders)
BOX 203			Pulitzer Prize
BOX 203				75th anniversary, 1991
BOX 203				Correspondence, 1982
					(5 folders)
BOX 204				Entry, 1981, 1989
					(2 folders)
BOX 204				Press and clippings, 1982
BOX 204		Business cards, undated
BOX 204		Childhood
BOX 204			Birth certificate receipt, 1948
BOX 204			Correspondence, 1982-2003, undated
				(2 folders)
BOX 204			Early writings, circa 1937-1939
BOX 204			Hebrew Orphan Asylum of New York
BOX 204				Correspondence, 1958-1992, undated
					(2 folders)
BOX 204				The Luckiest Orphans: A History of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum of New York by Hyman Bogen, undated
BOX 204				Miscellany, 1983-1988, undated
BOX 204				Publications and clippings, 1927-1999, undated
					(1 folder)
BOX 205				Publications and clippings, 1927-1999, undated
					(1 folder)
BOX 205				Screenplay, "A Home on the Hill," by John C. Scott, undated
BOX 205				Seligman Solomon Society, 1925
BOX 205			Newspapers from day of birth, 1925 See also Container OV 11, same heading
BOX 205			Photographs, undated
BOX 205			Public School 35 Elementary School, Hollis, N.Y., 1936-1941
BOX 205			Sketchbook, undated
BOX 205			Social worker case history, 1931-1941
BOX 205		Collected historical documents
BOX 205			Farrar, F. W. (Frederic William), "The Modern Preacher," undated
BOX 205			New York Tribune letter, 1885
BOX 205			Roll call on impeachment, U.S. House of Representatives, 1974
BOX 205		Death and estate
BOX 205			Letters of condolence, 2007
				(2 folders)
BOX 206			Letters of condolence, 2007
				(3 folders)
BOX 206			Memorial service
BOX 206				Planning files, 2007
BOX 206				Scrapbooks, 2007 See Containers OV 14-16, same title
DF					Photographs and PowerPoint slide show, circa 2007
						Digital ID: mss86197_178_202
DF					Digital files used to compile the scrapbooks, 2007
						Contains photographs, correspondence, columns, articles, audio files, notes, lists, and copies of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's file on Buchwald in the 1950s and 1960s, among other documents and files.
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