Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Contents | Arrangement
Collection Summary
Title | Eric Sevareid papers, 1930-1992 |
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Span Dates | 1930-1992 |
Bulk Dates | (bulk 1940-1977) |
ID No. | MSS39495 |
Creator | Sevareid, Eric, 1912-1992 |
Extent | 50,000 items ; 144 containers ; 17 linear feet ; 57.6 microfilm reels |
Language | Collection material in English |
Location | Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. |
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. |
Finding Aid Permalink | Cite or bookmark this finding aid as: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms001003 |
LCCN Permalink | LC Online Catalog record for this collection: http://lccn.loc.gov/mm78039495 |