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name: label: Collection Creator
content: Smothers Brothers
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content: Smothers Brothers Collection
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content: Smothers Brothers Collection / Series 2: Business Records
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1960-2002, undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.1437, Subseries 2.1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Provides information primarily relating to the professional lives of the Smothers brothers. Most of the materials are loose newspaper clippings and magazine articles. There are two scrapbooks of material and press kits containing show advertisements. Subjects include censorship and controversies, cancellation of the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour show, album promotions, special show announcements, performance reviews, and publicity suggestions. Materials relating to John Lennon heckling the Smothers Brothers in the Troubadour rock club in West Hollywood, California (1974) are also found among the materials. In addition, there is a folder of obituaries dating from 1985-1995 and a caricature of the brothers with Ed Sullivan. Materials are arranged in chronological order.