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Collection Photo, Print, Drawing Photographs from "Meet the press" radio and television programs

About this Item

Title

  • Photographs from "Meet the press" radio and television programs

Summary

  • Images from 1,462 "Meet the press" shows are included in this collection. The majority of the photographs depict guests, panels of journalists, producers Lawrence Spivak and Martha Rountree, and moderators Rountree, Spivak, Ned Brooks, and others posed on the set of the "Meet the press" show. Some images show production equipment, backstage scenes, and views of the audience. Also includes some publicity photographs of guests. Included are national and international figures such as heads of state, presidential candidates, members of Congress, mayors, governors, cabinet officers, civil rights leaders, labor leaders, economists, ambassadors, and physicians. Occasionally a cultural or sports figure appears such as Carl Sandburg, Robert Frost, Edward Steichen, and Jackie Robinson. Guests who appeared on the program 10 or more times include: J. William Fulbright, Walter W. Heller, Hubert H. Humphrey, Henry M. Jackson, William F. Knowland, John V. Lindsay, Henry Cabot Lodge, Mike Mansfield, Edmund S. Muskie, Nelson A. Rockefeller, Sargent Shriver, Stuart Symington, Robert A. Taft, and George C. Wallace. Topics discussed on "Meet the press" included international relations, domestic policy, congressional legislation, civil rights, political elections, the Vietnam War, McCarthyism, health care, the Watergate Affair, and the Cold War.

Names

  • Spivak, Lawrence E. (Lawrence Edmund), 1900-1994, donor
  • Spivak, Lawrence E. (Lawrence Edmund), 1900-1994. Papers.
  • Meet the Press Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • 1945-1980, bulk 1945-1975, 1979-1980.

Headings

  • -  Spivak, Lawrence E.--(Lawrence Edmund),--1900-1994
  • -  Rountree, Martha
  • -  Brooks, Ned,--1901-1969
  • -  Fulbright, J. William--(James William),--1905-1995
  • -  Heller, Walter W
  • -  Humphrey, Hubert H.--(Hubert Horatio),--1911-1978
  • -  Jackson, Henry M.--(Henry Martin),--1912-1983
  • -  Knowland, William F.--(William Fife),--1908-1974
  • -  Lindsay, John V.--(John Vliet)
  • -  Lodge, Henry Cabot,--Jr.,--1902-1985
  • -  Mansfield, Mike,--1903-2001
  • -  Muskie, Edmund S.,--1914-1996
  • -  Rockefeller, Nelson A.--(Nelson Aldrich),--1908-1979
  • -  Shriver, Sargent,--1915-2011
  • -  Symington, Stuart,--1901-1988
  • -  Taft, Robert A.--(Robert Alphonso),--1889-1953
  • -  Wallace, George C.--(George Corley),--1919-1998
  • -  Meet the press (Radio program)
  • -  Meet the press (Television program)
  • -  National Broadcasting Company--People--1940-1980
  • -  African Americans--Civil rights--1940-1980
  • -  Presidents--United States--1940-1980
  • -  Cabinet officers--United States--1940-1980
  • -  Governors--United States--1940-1980
  • -  Mayors--United States--1940-1980
  • -  Legislators--United States--1940-1980
  • -  Labor leaders--United States--1940-1980
  • -  Heads of state--1940-1980
  • -  Statesmen--1940-1980
  • -  Journalists--United States--1940-1980
  • -  Military officers--1940-1980
  • -  Activists--1940-1980
  • -  Government officials--1940-1980
  • -  Politicians--1940-1980
  • -  Physicians--1940-1980
  • -  Ambassadors--1940-1980
  • -  Businesspeople--1940-1980
  • -  Civil rights leaders--1940-1980
  • -  Television broadcasting--1940-1980
  • -  Radio broadcasting--1940-1980
  • -  Public affairs television programs--1940-1980
  • -  Public affairs radio programs--1940-1980
  • -  Journalism--1940-1980
  • -  Interviews--1940-1980
  • -  Political issues--1940-1980
  • -  International relations--1940-1980

Headings

  • Contact sheets--1940-1980.
  • Gelatin silver prints--1940-1980.
  • Group portraits--1940-1980.
  • Portrait photographs--1940-1980.

Genre

  • Portrait photographs--1940-1980
  • Group portraits--1940-1980
  • Contact sheets--1940-1980
  • Gelatin silver prints--1940-1980

Notes

  • -  Arrangement: Arranged chronologically by "Meet the press" show date.
  • -  "Meet the press," which began in 1945 as a joint venture of the Mutual Broadcasting System and American Mercury magazine, was the first public affairs program to feature a prominent guest interviewed by a panel of journalists. Lawrence E. Spivak and Martha Rountree originated the idea for "Meet the press" and co-produced the weekly show first on radio and then in a separate National Broadcasting Company (NBC) television edition starting in 1947. Separate shows were produced until 1950 when "Meet the press" moved permanently to television. In 1953, Martha Rountree left the show, and NBC bought "Meet the press." Lawrence Spivak remained on the show as a regular panelist, producer, and moderator until his retirement in 1975. Most "Meet the press" programs were broadcast from Washington, D.C.
  • -  Finding aid available online http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/eadpnp.pp020019
  • -  LOT title devised. Guest name and date of show imprinted on front of most photographs or written on verso.
  • -  Negatives for some of these photographs are in negative series LC-S64.
  • -  Gift, Lawrence E. Spivak, 1972, 1980, 1985; (DLC/PP-1972:184, 1980:012, 1985:611)
  • -  Transfer, LC Manuscript Division (Lawrence Edmund Spivak Papers), 1979-1992; (DLC/PP-1979:165, 1992:228).
  • -  Broadcast transcripts, correspondence, and other manuscript materials are in the Lawrence Edmund Spivak Papers in the Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. Broadcasts are in the Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress.

Medium

  • 4,560 photographic prints : b&w and some color ; 8 x 10 in. or smaller.
  • 617 contact sheets (7,134 images) : b&w ; 9 x 12 in. or smaller.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • LOT 13025 (F) [P&P]

Repository

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 93505558

Rights Advisory

Online Format

  • image

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Citations are generated automatically from bibliographic data as a convenience, and may not be complete or accurate.

Chicago citation style:

Spivak, Lawrence E. , Donor, Lawrence E Spivak, and Meet The Press Collection. Photographs from "Meet the press" radio and television programs. United States, 1945. to 1980, Bulk to 1975, 1979 to 1980. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/93505558/.

APA citation style:

Spivak, L. E., Spivak, L. E. & Meet The Press Collection. (1945) Photographs from "Meet the press" radio and television programs. United States, 1945. to 1980, Bulk to 1975, 1979 to 1980. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/93505558/.

MLA citation style:

Spivak, Lawrence E. , Donor, Lawrence E Spivak, and Meet The Press Collection. Photographs from "Meet the press" radio and television programs. to 1980, Bulk to 1975, 1979 to 1980. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/93505558/>.