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Title: Garrett Starmer collection (ARA)
Identifier/Call Number: PA Mss 182
Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
UC Santa Barbara Library, Department of Special Research Collections
Physical Description:
1.6 Linear Feet;
(3 document boxes, 4 bound volumes)
source:
Starmer, Garrett (Garrett Ludlow) (1915-2003)
Date (inclusive): circa 1940s
Abstract: The Garrett Starmer collection consists of about 1.6 linear feet of scripts that have been collected by Starmer. These scripts
pertain to documentaries written in the 1940s and performed via CBS, NBC, ABC and the Mutual Broadcasting System.
Physical Location: Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library.
The collection is open for research.
Property rights to the collection and physical objects belong to the Regents of the University of California acting through
the Department of Special Research Collections at the UCSB Library. All applicable literary rights, including copyright to
the collection and physical objects, are protected under Chapter 17 of the U.S. Copyright Code and are retained by the creator
and the copyright owner, heir(s), or assigns.
All requests to reproduce, quote from, or otherwise reuse collection materials must be submitted in writing to the Department
of Special Research Collections at UCSB at special@ucsb.edu. Consent is given on behalf of the Regents of the University of
California acting through the Department of Special Research Collections at UCSB as the owner of the physical items and is
not intended to include or imply permission from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright
owner, heir(s), or assigns. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the
copyright owner or their assigns for permission to publish where the UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
[Identification of Item], Garrett Starmer collection, PA Mss 182. Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara
Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
This collection forms part of the American Radio Archives (ARA), which documents the early history of broadcasting, with an
emphasis on California. The ARA was formerly housed at the Thousand Oaks Public Library and was owned and administered by
the Thousand Oaks Library Foundation. It was transferred to the UCSB Library in 2021.
Garrett Starmer was a professional actor for a short time, and spent much of his career as a
professor of speech and drama at various colleges and universities in California. With fellow faculty members
John Sutthoff and George Rogers he secured the licenses for both an educational television station (now
KIXE-PBS) and KCHO radio in the name of California State University, Chico.
The Garrett Starmer collection contains radio scripts that he collected throughout the course of his career, mostly documentaries
and radio plays originating from the Writers' War Board.
The materials in this collection are arranged into one series by type.
Series 1: Scripts
Forms part of the American Radio Archives (ARA).
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Documentary radio programs -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Radio plays -- History -- 20th century
Radio writers -- United States -- Archives
Radio scripts
Starmer, Garrett (Garrett Ludlow) (1915-2003)
Starmer, Garrett (Garrett Ludlow) (1915-2003) -- Archives
Hazam, Louis Jay (1911-1983) -- Archives
Writers' War Board -- Archives