PEABODY AWARDS COLLECTION
1940-present
The Peabody Awards Collection consists of over 90,000 titles, with radio programs dating from 1940 and television from 1948. The collection consists of almost all the entries to the awards program since its beginning in 1941. It contains American, local, and more currently, international, electronic media programs, with content from news, documentary, entertainment, educational, children's, and public service programming. There are radio transcription discs, audiotape, audiocassettes, 16mm kinescopes and prints, 2" videoreels, videocassettes, websites, and objects associated with the collection. Many of the programs in the collection may be only surviving copies of the work, especially in the case of local radio and television broadcasting. These are all original archival materials. Reference, or "user" copies, are available for much of the collection for use in the University of Georgia Libraries Media Department or at the Special Collections Library.
Press kits, scripts, and correspondence submitted with the entries are housed in the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
The collection continues to grow, as every year's entries are deposited with the Library after the awards process is completed.
FINDING AIDS
RESEARCHING THE COLLECTION
There is a separate database that indexes this collection. Please see the search form on the right.
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For more information about this collection, please contact Peabody Awards Collection Archivist Mary Miller.
LICENSING
This collection consists almost entirely of copyrighted material. If you are interested in something from this collection, please check to see if is available directly from the copyright holder.
For licensing information, please see the Licensing Fee Schedule.
For more information about use of this collection, please contact the Director of the Media Archives, Ruta Abolins, via email: [email protected], or phone: 706-542-4757.
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