Guide to the James Thurber Family Collection



Series V: Awards, Honors and Dedications, 1937-2000

Subseries I: Awards, 1937-2000
Box Name: Awards/Recognition/Memorials and Dedications
Folder Names:
Miscellaneous awards, 1937-1983
Williams College degree: Correspondence, 1950-1951, 1950-1951
Williams College: Programs and Instructions, 1951
Williams College honorary doctorate degree: Honorary doctorate, 1951
Yale University honorary degree: Correspondence, 1953
Yale University honorary degree: Remarks and ephemera, 1953
Thurber on Humor, Ohioana Library Association, October 24, 1953
National Cartoonists' Society T- Square, 1956
Press Club of Ohio Distinguished Service Award, November 14, 1959; January 1960
The Ohio State University Meritorious Service Award certificate on the occasion of the 45th reunion of the Class of 1916, 1961
Ohio Journalism Hall of Fame program, April 20, 1983
The Ohio State University commencement program and program for Thurber Center reception commemorating James Thurber's Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, June 9, 1995
Program and remarks for Thurber's induction in Columbus Public Schools Hall of Fame , March 9, 2000
Location: On display in Museum Room
Ohioana Sesquicentennial Medal, October 24, 1953
The American Library Association's Liberty and Justice Book Award, for Further Fables of Our Time, 1956
Press Club of Ohio, Distinguished Service Award, November 14, 1959
The Ohio State University School of Journalism, Ohio Journalism Hall of Fame, 1983
Subseries II: Commemorative Activities, 1955-1994
Box Name: Award and Honors
Folder Names:
Thurber's remarks on his 61st birthday, 1955
Sundial article and drawing, ca. 1960
E.B. White's eulogy for James Thurber, as published in the New Yorker, November 11, 1961
(on display on second floor of Thurber House)
Thurber Towers brochure, ca. 1963
James Thurber exhibit, The Ohio State University's Main Library, 1966
Thurber Reading Room, The Ohio State University, 1970
Dedication, Thurber Theatre, The Ohio State University, November 18, 1972
A Thurber Looks at Thurber: Lecture by Rosemary Thurber Sauers at The Ohio State University, May 1, 1973
Arts Club of Chicago: Correspondence, 1973-1975
Sixty Years on the Arts Club Stage: A Souvenir Exhibition of Portraits, 1975-1976
The Wonderful Thurber: An Exhibition of Drawings, Writings and Memorabilia from the Collections of the Ohio State University Libraries, 1979
Lewis Branscomb Thurber project, 1982
The Humours of James Thurber, 1984
Of Thurber: Columbustown, 1984
Reprint of Peter DeVries' introductory remarks on James Thurber, for "Poetry Magazine" benefit at the Chicago Arts Club, April 8, 1944; 1985
92 Drawings: A James Thurber Retrospective, December 7, 1986-March 7, 1987, 1986-1987
I Am James Thurber, a broadside printed at The Logan Elm Press and Papermill, with Sidney Chafetz's woodblock portrait of James Thurber, 1990
On display on second floor of Thurber House
Program for opening of OSU exhibit of Thurber drawings, manuscripts featuring Lee Lorenz, cartoon editor, The New Yorker, May 26, 1994
Thurber's Dogs: Suite for Orchestra, December 2, 1994
Thurber stamps and first-day covers, September 10, 1994
Invitation and program for event marking Thurber stamp's first day of issue, Thurber House, September 10, 1994
Thurber in Commemorative Stamp Collection, 1994, pp. 28-29 (copy 1), 1994
Thurber in Commemorative Stamp Collection, 1994, pp. 28-29 (copy 2), 1994
Thurber Centennial Celebration program, song, badge, and letter, Ladies Literary Club, Grand Rapids, Michigan, December 8, 1994
Signed print of a drawing of Thurber by Milton Caniff, Undated

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