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Calder Pickett Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0203

Scope and Contents

The Calder Pickett Collection was gifted by Pickett to the Miller Nichols Library at the Universityof Missouri-Kansas City. Spanning the 1960s-2000s, the collection consists of hundreds of scripts primarily for the award-winning radio series The American Past, hosted by Pickett and produced by Kansas Public Radio at the University of Kansas from 1973-2000s.Also included are scripts for NBC’s radio series Image Americaand the 26-part Canadian television documentary Vietnam War: The Ten Thousand Day War. Print material is housed in LaBudde Special Collections.

Audio material from the collection is housed in the Marr Sound Archives, the audio division of Special Collections. The audiovisual collection contains original reel to reel and cassette tapes of Calder Pickett’s radio broadcast “The American Past”.

Dates

  • 1960 - 2004

Creator

Conditions Governing Use

Copyright status is unknown

Extent

37 Linear Feet (762 Open Reel Audiotapes, 1058 Compact Cassettes)

Language of Materials

English

Author
Marr: Cody Kauhl, Andrew Hansbrough
Date
Marr: 2015
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the University of Missouri-Kansas City Special Collections and Archives Repository