Frank Stanton papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 14200
Subjects: Television advertising; Campaign debates; Radio advertising; Press coverage; Business Council (U.S.); Politics and government; American National Red Cross; Television broadcasting; Advertising; Mass media; Broadcasting policy; Business Committee for the Arts; United States. Advisory Commission on Information; Correspondence; Radio journalism; Columbia Broadcasting System, inc; Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Description and travel; American Propaganda; Harvard University; Presidents; Carnegie Institution of Washington; Logos (Symbols); Radio broadcasting; Design; Election; Political science; CBS Building (New York, N.Y.); United States; Broadcast journalism; Foreign relations; Freedom of the press
Description: Correspondence, memoranda, minutes of meetings, speeches, writings, reports, transcripts, interviews, testimony, studies, subject files, press clippings, press releases, printed matter, awards, citations, and other papers relating primarily to Stanton's career as president and vice chairman of the board of directors of the Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc.  Documents his activities as chairman of the U.S. Advisory Commission on Information and American National Red Cross as well as with organizations including the Business Committee for the Arts, Business Council (U.S.), Carnegie Institution of Washington, and Harvard University.  Includes material pertaining to Stanton's research projects including his work with Paul Lazarsfeld on the program analyzer.  Subjects include the radio and television advertising; broadcast of information about the U.S. to foreign countries; First Amendment and freedom of press; design of the Columbia Broadcasting System logo; design and construction of company headquarters, the CBS Building, in New York, N.Y.; government and the media; politics; presidential debates; travels to Europe; press coverage of the Vietnam War; and William F. Buckley.  Correspondents include Harold E. Burtt, Hadley Cantril, Thomas E. Dewey, Arthur Godfrey and William S. Paley.
Notes: Open to research.

Classified, in part.

Gift, Elisabeth Allison and Andrew H. Weiss, 2007-2008.

transferred to Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division.

transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

Broadcast executive.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room.