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• Title:Western film collection, 1911-2006.
  
• Physical Description:90.11 linear feet (116 boxes) + 5 broadsides
  
• Links:View a selection of digital images in the Beinecke Library's Digital Images Online database
  View a description and listing of collection contents in the finding aid
  

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  • Location:BEINECKE (Non-Circulating)
    To request for use in the Beinecke Reading Room select a box in the finding aid
    
    
  • Call Number: WA MSS S-2730
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  • Library Has: Boxes 1-20, 41, 46, 64, 66, 68, 70, 76, 81, 91, 96, 103, 115, 119 (Oversize), 61-62, 104, 106-107 (Broadside)
    
  • Notes: Former call numbers: UNCAT WA MS 233, UNCAT MSS 882, UNCAT MSS 1244, UNCAT MSS 1293, UNCAT MSS 1294, UNCAT MSS 1295, UNCAT MSS 1296, UNCAT MSS 1297, UNCAT MSS 1298, UNCAT MSS 1299, UNCAT MSS 1300, UNCAT MSS 1301, UNCAT MSS 1303, UNCAT MSS 1305
    

  • Location:LSF- BEINECKE
    To request for use in the Beinecke Reading Room select a box in the finding aid
    
    
  • Call Number: WA MSS S-2730
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  • Library Has: Boxes 21, 42-48, 50-55, 60, 71-73, 77, 82-86, 88-89, 94, 97-101, 105, 108-109, 113-114, 116-118, 120-121; Boxes 22-40, 49, 56-59, 63, 65, 67, 69, 74-75, 78-80, 87, 90, 92-93, 95, 102, 110-102 (Oversize)
    
  • Notes: Former call numbers: UNCAT WA MS 233, UNCAT MSS 882, UNCAT MSS 1244, UNCAT MSS 1293, UNCAT MSS 1294, UNCAT MSS 1295, UNCAT MSS 1296, UNCAT MSS 1297, UNCAT MSS 1298, UNCAT MSS 1299, UNCAT MSS 1300, UNCAT MSS 1301, UNCAT MSS 1303, UNCAT MSS 1305
    

   
• Notes:In English.
  Purchased from various sources, 1987-2022.
  
• Organization:Organized in forty groupings: September 1987 Acquisition; July 2006 Acquisition; June 2010 Acquisition; November 2010 Acquisition; January 2011 Acquisition; October 2011 Acquisition; January 2012 Acquisition; June 2012 Acquisition; July 2012 Acquisition; September 2012 Acquisition; December 2012 Acquisition; June 2013 Acquisition; July 2013 Acquisition; September 2013 Acquisition; 14 October 2013 Acquisition; 30 October Acquisition; November 2013 Acquisition; 6 February 2014 Acquisition; 14 February 2014 Acquisition; March 2014 Acquisition; 1 July 2015 Acquisition [1 of 2]; 1 July 2015 Acquisition [2 of 2]; November 2015 Acquisition; January 2016 Acquisition; September 2016 Acquisition; October 2016 Acquisition; February 2017 Acquisition; 1 July 2017 Acquisition; 3 July 2017 Acquisition; 23 October 2017 Acquisition [1 of 2]; 23 October 2017 Acquisition [2 of 2]; January 2018 Acquisition; 1 July 2018 Acquisition; 31 July 2018 Acquisition; December 2018 Acquisition; July 2019 Acquisition [1 of 2]; July 2019 Acquisition [2 of 2]; October 2019 Acquisition; November 2019 Acquisitions, April 2022 Acquisition, and July 2022 Acquisition.
  
• Access and use:This material is open for research. Box 60 (computer disks): Restricted fragile material. Reference copies of electronic files may be requested. Consut Access Services for further information. Box 50 (sound recording): Use of original is restricted. Reference copy may be requested. Consult Access Services for further information.
  
• Summary:The Western Film Collection consists of press kits, pressbooks, posters, photographs, souvenir programs and other materials that were distributed by film producers to movie theater operators to promote their films. The Western films represented in this collection are Western genre films, films set in the trans-Mississippi West, and/or films with Western characters. Press kits typically include advertisements prepared for submission to newspapers and magazines; black-and-white photographs of scenes from the films with credit information; printed booklets called pressbooks containing information about the film, actors, and other personnel; and posters for lobby display. Early press kits were called "campaign kits." While the majority of press kits included in the collection consist of foldered printed material, there are several examples of electronic press kits on compact disc. The Buddy Holly Story pressbook contains a "flexi disc" recording bound in.
  
• Format:Archives or Manuscripts
• Indexes/Finding aids:Finding aid available.
  
• Cite as:Western Film Collection. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
  
• Subjects:Motion pictures--Production and direction.
  Western films.
  
• Genre/Form:Audiovisual materials.
  Born digital.
  Film posters.