Earnest E. Seiler, Office Files
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Orange Bowl Committee
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content: Orange Bowl Collection
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1951-1977
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.1191, Series 2
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This series consists of subject files mainatined by Ernest Seiler, the Executive Vice President of the Orange Bowl Parade Committee. The files document a wide arrange activities involved in coordinating and executing a national parade.  The materials include correspondence, contracts, memorandum, black-and-white photographs, lists,agendas, newspaper clippings, brochures, business cards, invoices, and general notes. The files are arranged alphabetically by subject, alphabetically.  The organizational parade information files are listed first and provide ba broad context about parade logistics and planning. 

The band files primarily document high school bands that participated in the Orange Bowl Parade. Materials include correspondence, guest lists, chaeperone lists, brochures for Miami (Dad County), Florida, agendas for band meetings, newspaper clippings, postcards, itinerraries for specific high schools, publicity forms and information about the Great Bands of Orange Bowl Program. The Great Bands is an event started in the 1970s by the Orange Bowl Committee to bring together twelve of the top marching bands for them to perform in the orange Bowl Stadium.  Each year two hundred marching bands from the United States and Canada apply to the Committee to appear in the King Orange and Jamboree. 

The contracts include agreements, notices of assignment, correspondence, work orders, entertainment contracts, lease agreements, and other memorandum of agreement between the Orange Bowl Parade Committee and various vendors, construction companies, sponsors, radio stations, and individuals such as the princesses who served in the Orange Bowl Court.  Additional materials include clearances for music.

The Coral Gables, Jr. Parade materials conatin correspondence, information sheets, entry blanks, agendas, form letters minutes of the steering committe, float specifications, expenditures, participant intsructions, constitution and blaws for the Junior orange Bowl Parade Committ (1964) and a January, 1960 Action Leader newsletter from Coral Gables, Florida. 

The fireworks materials contain primarily correspondence with firework companies, particularly Thearle-Duffield Fireworks of Chicago as well as permits and certifcates of insurance.