Guide to the James Thurber Family Collection

Series XIII: Audiovisual Materials

Subseries I: Photograph Albums, 1937

Europe and Bermuda, 1937

Subseries II: Photographs

Sub-Subseries I: Thurber Family, Friends, and Homes, 1861-1996

Box Name: Photographs: 1

Folder Names:

Sarah Hull, Charles L. Thurber's maternal great-grandmother

Aunt Margery Albright, 1897; 1913

(Copy of Albright with James, William and Robert Thurber also on exhibit in Museum Room.)

William and Kate Fisher (grandparents), 1861

(One copy on exhibit in Museum Room)

William, Kate, Kirt and Martha Fisher, 1888

William Fisher, 1911

Charles Thurber

Charles and Mame Thurber at the Blind Asylum

Mary Fisher Thurber

Friends of Charles Thurber

Thurbers on Maple Avenue, Falls Church, Virginia, August 1902

William Thurber

Robert Thurber

Photos of Robert Thurber, including as captain of the East High School 1913 championship baseball team, 1897; 1906; 1908; 1913

(On display in Robert's room.)

William, Robert and James Thurber, 1897; early 1900s

(On exhibit in Museum Room.)

William and James Thurber, 1897

(On exhibit in Museum Room.)

Relatives

Six photos of Robert Thurber's trip to Boston to see the World Series Clippings as a guest of the Daily Monitor by winning its Monitor Puzzle contest, 1916

Photos include the start of the trip; northeastern Pennsylvania; fueling up in Albany, New York; in front of Ebbets Field; and the second game in Boston.

Thurber family portrait, 1915

(On display on second floor of Thurber House.)

William, Robert and James Thurber with William and Mary Fisher and cousins, 1915

William, Robert and James Thurber with their mother, Mame, for her 80th birthday, at the Great Southern Hotel, Ca. 1950s

Family Group Photographs

Thurber family's 1915 Reo, memorialized as "The Car We Had to Push" in My Life and Hard Times (1933), Ca. 1915

Mugs and Rex, 1915; 1921

(Additional copies also on display in Jamie's Room.)

Columbus houses, undated

Thurber House and Underwood typewriter, undated

2034 I Street, Washington, D.C., undated

Thurber coat of arms, undated

Photos of Donn Vickers and a Thurber contemporary, 1996

Thurber family photo, undated

(On display in Robert's room.)

Sub-Subseries II: James, Althea, Helen and Rosemary Thurber, 1908-1971

Box Name: Photographs: 1

Folder Names:

James Thurber, age 14, 1908

(On display on second floor of Thurber House.)

James Thurber's East High School graduation picture, 1913

(On display in Jamie's Room.)

East High School class photograph, 1913

(On display in Jamie's Room.)

Composite picture of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity members, 1918

(On display in Jamie's Room.)

Scarlet Mask Club, Ohio State University, 1921-1922

(On display in Jamie's Room.)

James Thurber with his camera in his London flat, 1937

(On display in Museum Room.)

James Thurber at work, Ca. 1940s

(On display on second floor of Thurber House.)

Profile portrait of James Thurber, (On display in Museum Room.)

James, Althea, and Rosemary Thurber at Sandy Hook, Connecticut, 1932

Helen Thurber

James and Helen Thurber's passport photos, Ca. 1937

James and Helen Thurber, Ca. 1937

Helen and James Thurber aboard Ile de France, 1937

Photos from European trip, 1937-1938

James and Rosemary, 1946

James and Helen, June 1950

Box Name: Photographs: 2

Folder Names:

Rosemary Thurber Sauers at Oak Park & River Forest High School, 201 N. Scoville Ave., Oak Park, Illinois, May 1971

James Thurber and Ted Gardiner, ca. 1950

James Thurber and his dog, Christabel, undated

Sub-Subseries III: Honors and Events, 1951-1995

Box Name: Photographs: 2

Folder Names:

Williams College degree, 1951

Enlargement of photo from Phi Kappa Psi's centennial banquet, Deshler-Wallick Hotel, 1952

Kenyon College degree, 1953

Yale University degree, 1953

Dedication of Denney Hall, April 1, 1960

Thurber Reading Room, The Ohio State University Main Library, 1970

Rosemary Thurber Sauers, OSU President Gordon Gee, and Thurber House staff members at Thurber House reception following The Ohio State University honorary degree ceremony, 1995

Sub-Subseries IV: Thurber's Works, 1946-1972

Box Name: Photographs: 2

Folder Names:

Drawings at Tim Costello's restaurant, undated

Publicity stills from "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" RKO Radio Pictures, 1946

Accompanied by album inscribed "For James Thurber from Danny Kaye and Samuel Goldwyn"

Weidman Fables ballet, Ca. 1948

Rosemary Thurber Sauers in The Ohio State University premier of Jabberwock, 1972

Dallas theater cast, Jabberwock, 1972

Sub-Subseries V: Miscellaneous, 1918-1994

Box Name: Photographs: 2

Folder Names:

Armistice Day, Broad and High Streets, Columbus, November 11, 1918

Signed photograph of Burgess Meredith, 1994; undated

Miscellaneous photographs, undated

Sub-Subseries VI: Robert's Sports Photographs, 1886-1950

All photographs in this sub-subseries, with the exception of the first entry, can be found in Robert's Room.

Box Name: Photographs: 2

Folder Names:

Robert's athletic photographs, undated

Box Name: Robert's Room

Folder Names:

New York Mets, 1886

First Ohio State University/Michigan football game on Ohio State's field, 1901

Hansy Hilton breaking world record in 200 yard hurdles, September 1, 1904

The Big Four polo team: Devereux Milburn, Harry Payne Whitney, J.M. and L. Waterbury, 1909

Davis Cup: McLoughlin-Bundy U.S. doubles team, 1913

Ray Eichenlaub, Notre Dame fullback, 1913

Notre Dame football players Gus Gushurst, Ralph Lathrop, Freeman Fitzgerald, Al Feeney, Emmet Keefe, Deke Jones, and Knute Rockne, 1913

Two photographs of horse race at Belmont Park, October 20, 1923

Jesse Owens competing in the Olympics, 1936

Speaker, Cobb and Ruth at old timers and amateur day, League Park, Cleveland, August 1941

Photo and program of Michigan/Ohio State University football game, November 25, 1950

Autographed photo of Abe Attell, former world's featherweight champion, undated
Inscribed "To R.L. Thurber with best wishes and good luck from the former featherweight champ."

Photo of Babe Ruth presented to members of the Babe Ruth Baseball Club, inscribed "To my pal from Babe Ruth", undated

National doubles champions Miss Mary Browne and Mrs. R. Williams, undated

Tennis player Mary Sutton Bundy, undated

Tennis players Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman, Mary Sutton Bundy, and Mr. Campbell, undated

Chic Harley, undated

Sub-Subseries VII: Negatives, 1916-1918

Box Name: Photographs: 2

Folder Names:

Sarah Hull, undated

W.S. trip and family, 1916

Negatives taken by James Thurber in Washington, D.C., 1918

Robert's negatives of Knute Rockne, Gus Dorias, and other Notre Dame athletes, accompanied by a handwritten list of information, undated

Thurber artwork, photographs in Thurber House, undated

Ohio State University: Campus, Sigma Delta Chi, Sun Dial editorial staff, La Boheme: Makio, undated

Subseries III: Audiotapes

Sub-Subseries I: Oral History Interviews, 1983-1996

Box Name: Audiotapes

Folder Names:

Robert Thurber, April 18, 1983

Whitney Dillon and Mary Teeter Zimmerman, May 3, 1983

Thelma Roseboom, May 18, 1983

Wendell Postle, May 19, 1983

Betty Mykrantz, May 23, 1983

Mrs. Herman Miller, May 24, 1983

Minnette Fritz Ewart and Lacey Washington, May 24, 1983

John Harlor, January 16, 1984

Frances Zipf Niklaus, January 18, 1984

Donn Vickers' interview with 102-year-old high school classmate Helen Atwell with daughter JoAnn; Armena Schmidt, ca. 1995-1996

Sub-Subseries II: Recordings of Thurber's Work, 1944-2001

Box Name: Audiotapes

Folder Names:

"The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" starring Robert Benchley, CBS Radio Series, "This Is My Best.", 1944

Thurber's Dogs, with suite for orchestra on CD, 1994

(In right trunk under window in Museum Room.)

Die 13 Uhren (The 13 Clocks, German). Patmos., 2001
Three copies. Also includes 2 compact discs.

(In museum room.)

"A Thurber Carnival" original Broadway cast, undated

"The Great Quillow", undated

"A Ride with Olympy, ""The 13 Clocks, ""Very Proper Gander, " and "Shrike and Chipmunks, ", undated

"The World of James Thurber" read by Henry Morgan, undated

Includes "The Greatest Man in the World,""Interview with a Lemming,""The Car We Had To Push,""The Very Proper Gander,""The Shrike and the Chipmunks,""Which,""The Split Infinitive,""Adverbial Advice," and "The Spreading 'You Know.'"

"The 13 Clocks" read by Tom Walker, undated

Sub-Subseries III: Reflections on Thurber, 1984-1987

Box Name: Audiotapes

Folder Names:

Christopher Durang on James Thurber, October 21, 1984

Presentation on James Thurber by John Young, Thurber House guide, 1987

Readings and comments by and about James Thurber, introduced by Henry Morgan, undated

Side 1: Morgan introduces comments by E.B. White, Frank Sullivan, Kenneth Tynan, Marc Connelly, and Clifton Fadiman. Morgan reads "The Greatest Man in the World" and "Interview with a Lemming." Side 2: Morgan introduces Thurber, who describes the childhood accident with bow and arrow and ensuing eye problems. He tells about, and reads, "The Car We Had To Push" and talks about the beginnings of his cartoons and drawings. Dorothy Parker comments about Thurber's art.

Audio of panel at OSU Library, undated

Includes Ed Lentz as moderator, Ted Gardiner, Dr. Leroy Johnston, Mary Teater Zimmerman, and Dr. Lewis Branscomb. (Collection also includes videotape of this event, in Videos box.)

Sub-Subseries IV: Thurber Commemorative Events, 1983-1994

Box Name: Audiotapes

Folder Names:

Thurber birthday event at Phi Kappa Psi House, December 8, 1983

Songs used in "Thurber's Columbus", 1988

"Thurber's Dogs" ProMusica Chamber Orchestra, 1994

Subseries IV: Records

Sub-Subseries I: James Thurber's Works, 1959-1960

Box Name: Records 1

Folder Names:

Echo: A Magazine of Sight and Sound: "James Thurber's Harmonica Man", 1959

Original Broadway cast recording of "A Thurber Carnival", Ca. 1960

Sub-Subseries II: Robert Thurber's Record Collection, 1959-1960

Box Name: Records 1-3

Folder Names:

"So This Is New York" Bill Leonard, undated

"The Three Trees" and "No News, Or What Killed the Dog", undated

"While We're Young" and "Similau", undated

"Once in Love with Amy" and "Make a Miracle", undated

"Swanee-One Step" and "Venetian Moon - Fox Trot", undated

"Nobody Lied" and "Oh! Is She Dumb", undated

"Who-Fox Trot" and "Sunny-Fox Trot", undated

"Swanee-One Step" and "Venetian Moon-Fox Trot", undated

"EE' By Gum!" and "Will You Love Me When I'm Mutton?", undated

"Ja-Da" and "The Worst Is Yet To Come", undated

"Rock-A-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody" and "Alice I'm In Wonderland", undated

"Swanee-One Step" and "Venetian Moon-Fox Trot", undated

"The Girl That I Marry" and "While We're Young", undated

"September Song" and "Lost in the Stars", undated

"Whispering" and "The Love Boat", undated

"Whispering-Fox Trot" and "The Japanese Sandman-Fox Trot", undated

"Whiffenpoof Song" and "Kentucky Babe", undated

"Poor Butterfly", undated

"Smiles" and "Waters of Venice", undated

"I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles" and "Beautiful Ohio", undated

"Row, Row, Row-Medley, One-Step or Turkey Trot" and "Argentine Tango", undated

"Avalon" and "Old Pal, Why Don't You Answer Me", undated

"I Knew Him When He Was All Right" and "Chinatown, My Chinatown", undated

"The Darktown Strutters' Ball-Fox Trot" and "Razzberries-One Step", undated

"Toot, Toot, Tootsie Goo'bye" and "Carolina in the Morning", undated

"The Cat and the Fly Paper", undated

"The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise" and "Indian Love Call", undated

"The Rosary" and "Silver Threads Among the Gold", undated

"My Mother's Rosary" and "Yaaka Hula Hickey Dula", undated

"My Creole Sue" and "Kentucky Babe", undated

"Three O'Clock in the Morning-Waltz" and "Oriental Fox-Trot", undated

"O-h-I-o (O-My!-O!)" and "I Want to Go to the Land Where the Sweet Daddies Grow", undated

"You Can't Get Along With 'Em or Without 'Em" and "Yakka, Hoola, Hickey, Doola", undated

"I Was Born in Virginia, ""Mary's A Grand Old Name, ""Harrigan, " and "Yankee Doodle Dandy, ""You're A Grand Old Flag, ""Yankee Doodle Boy, " and "Give My Regards to Broadway", undated

Subseries V: Films, 1988

Box Name: Films

Folder Names:

Jim Thurber's Columbus, 1988

Subseries VI: Videos

Sub-Subseries I: Oral History Interviews, 1979

Box Name: Videocassettes 1

Folder Names:

Reel-to-reel video tape of interviews with Thurber contemporaries conducted by Lewis Branscomb, December 6, 1979

First Thurber birthday celebration with reminiscences by Thurber contemporaries, including Ted Gardiner, December 8, 1979

Sub-Subseries II: Biographies, 1960-2000

Box Name: Videocassettes 1

Folder Names:

Conversation between Jim Brosnan (major league baseball pitcher and author) and James Thurber about baseball and other subjects, 1960

Thurber Family Portrait, October 19, 1990

Thurber special on PBS, January 24, 2000

Columbus Public Schools Hall of Fame Video: James Thurber, 2000

Autobiography, undated

James Thurber's Columbus: The Clocks of Columbus, undated

University Days, Clocks of Columbus, Family Portrait, Autobiography, undated

Alistair Cooke's interview with Thurber, undated

Sub-Subseries III: Recordings of Thurber's Work, 1960-1992

Box Name: Videocassettes 2

Folder Names:

James Thurber on Quack Cures, 1960

John Gardiner from Fawcett Center: The Fairly Intelligent Fly and The Doctor's Doctoring Dilemma, November 22, 1992

Sub-Subseries IV: Commemorative Events, 1995

Box Name: Videocassettes 2

Folder Names:

The Ohio State University Spring Commencement, June 9, 1995

Includes presentation posthumously of the Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree to James Thurber, accepted by Rosemary Thurber.

Thurber birthday observance at Ohio State University Libraries, undated

Ed Lentz as moderator of panel, Ted Gardiner, Dr. Leroy Johnson, Mary Teater Zimmerman, and Lewis Branscomb. (Collection also includes audio tape of this event, in Audiotapes box.)

Subseries VII: Slides

Box Name:

Folder Names:

Jim Thurber's Good Old Columbus Town: Autobiography: Precise But Useless Information, Trays A&B, Top & Bottom (2 sets)

Jim Thurber's Good Old Columbus Town: Family Album, Trays A&B, Top & Bottom (2 sets)

Jim Thurber's Good Old Columbus Town: The Clocks of Columbus, Trays A&B, Top & Bottom (2 sets)

Jim Thurber's Good Old Columbus Town: University Days, Trays A&B, Top & Bottom (2 sets)

Slide show with script

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