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American wit and humor.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

A prairie home companion at Cornell University

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 47-4-3632
Scope and content

Program and tape recording of the broadcast of A Prairie Home Companion at Cornell University, with humorous anecdotes about Cornell.

Dates: 1997.

E. B. White collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 4619
Abstract

Manuscripts, letters, documents, clippings, photographs, filmstrips, film reels, notecards, cassette tapes, bound photocopies, medals and awards by, to, or about E.B. White, spanning the entire range of his activities throughout his life.

Dates: 1899-1999.

E. R. Eastman papers

 Collection
Identifier: 3105
Abstract

Correspondence, pamphlets, and clippings concerning or authored by Edward Roe Eastman. Also, speeches, radio talks, notes, scrapbooks, reports, and surveys. Printed material includes New York Artificial Breeders Co-operator, 1948-1970; The Dairymen's League News (30 volumes); University of the State of New York, Regents Minutes (volumes 25-30); and other items concerning education.

Dates: 1923-1970.

Frank Sullivan collection

 Collection
Identifier: 4618
Abstract

Correspondence and other papers of Frank Sullivan, an American journalist, humorist and author who was long associated with the New Yorker magazine.

Dates: 1910-1972.

James Thurber papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 4654
Scope and content Letters, manuscripts, postcards, and drawings by James Thurber and Helen Thurber, with individual letters by a few others. Consists mainly of letters from James Thurber to Ann Honeycutt on personal matters, documenting their relationship and containing much autobiographical material, with some commentary on events at the New Yorker. Also included are a few typewritten manuscripts of humorous essays by Thurber; 3 drawings, including one for the book Is Sex Necessary? with accompanying text;...
Dates: 1929-1962-(bulk 1929-1946)

Kurt Vonnegut papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 8789
Abstract Chiefly incoming correspondence from publishers, agents, friends, and readers, as well as materials relating to Vonnegut's family and personal life from the period he lived in Barnstable, MA (1950s-1970s). Highlights also include his notebooks from his time as a graduate student in anthropology at the University of Chicago from 1945 to 1947 after serving in World War II; several manuscript notes or typescripts of plays, essays, speeches and screenplays; and scrapbooks Vonnegut compiled...
Dates: 1924 - 1997

Mad magazine collection

 Collection
Identifier: 8719
Content Description

Magazine articles, newspaper clippings, subscription forms, and bottle caps relating to Mad magazine and its longtime publisher, William M. Gaines. Includes a series of articles on the history of the magazine under Gaines's leadership.

Dates: 1995-2005