The Hope Family,
ca. 1915.
Copyprint.

Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting
and Recorded Sound Division (1)

The Hope Family.
Photograph, ca. 1906.
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting and
Recorded Sound Division (1A)

The Hope family, ca. 1920.
Photograph.
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division (1A.1)

Bob Hope's birthplace,
44 Craighton Road, Eltham, England.
Copyprint.
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting
and Recorded Sound Division (2)

The Alhambra Theater,
Cleveland, ca. 1906.
Copyprint.
Courtesy of the Cleveland Public Library (3)

The Circus Ring,
Luna Park, Cleveland, Ohio, 1905.
Copyprint.
Prints and Photographs Division (4)

J. W. Sandison.
Charlie Chaplin Look-Alike Contest,
November 5, 1921.
Copyprint.
Courtesy of Whatcom Museum of History and Art,
Bellingham, Washington. (4b)

Business card,
ca. 1920.
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting
and Recorded Sound Division (5)

Lester Hope and Mildred Rosequist,
ca. 1923.
Copyprint.
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting
and Recorded Sound Division (6)

Program from the Palace Theatre,
New York, January 24, 1921.
Reproduction.
Oscar Hammerstein II Collection,
Music Division (9)

Program from the Riverside Theatre,
September 24, 1921.
Oscar Hammerstein II Collection,
Music Division (9.1)

Ledger book from B.F. Keith's Theater,
Indianapolis, August 29, 1921-June 14, 1925.
Handwritten manuscript, with later annotations.
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting
and Recorded Sound Division (10)

Verso of letter from William Jacobs Agency
with Bob Hope's notes on a routine,
May 6, 1929.
Holograph manuscript.
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting
and Recorded Sound Division (11)

Brochure for "Siamese Twins" |
Daisy and Violet Hilton, ca. 1925.
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting
and Recorded Sound Division (12)

Publicity photograph of George Byrne
and Lester Hope, ca. 1925.
Copyprint.
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting
and Recorded Sound Division (13)

Business card for Byrne and Hope, ca. 1925.
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting
and Recorded Sound Division (13a)

Gus Sun Booking Exchange Program.
Springfield, Ohio: Gus Sun Booking Exchange Company, 1925.
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting
and Recorded Sound Division (15)

The Stratford Theatre,
Chicago, ca. 1920.
Courtesy of the Chicago Historical Society (17)

Advertisement for the Stratford Theater
from the Chicago Daily Tribune,
August 23, 1928.
Reproduction.
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting and
Recorded Sound Division (34A)

Map of Hope's 1929-1930 Vaudeville Tour.
Created for exhibition, 2000 (18)

Page from Ballyhoo of 1932 script.
Typed manuscript with
Handwritten annotations, 1932.
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting
and Recorded Sound Division (22a)

Palace Theatre,
New York Palace Theatre, New York, 1915.
Copyprint.
Courtesy of the Theatre Historical Society of America,
Elmhurst, Illinois (22)

Ziegfeld Follies program with Bert Williams, 1912.
Reproduction.
Rare Book and Special Collections Division (23)

Alex Rogers and Bert Williams.
"Nobody," 1905.
Musical score.
Music Division (24)

Irving Berlin.
"This is the Life."
New York: Waterson, Berlin & Snyder Co., 1914.
Sheet Music.
Music Division (25a)

Advertisement in Variety, 1913.
Reproduction.
Motion Picture, Broadcasting and
Recorded Sound Division (25b)

Harry Von Tilzer.
"My Old New Hampshire Home."
New York, 1898.
Sheet Music.
Music Division (25c)

Harry Von Tilzer.
"Latest Popular Mandolin, Banjo & Guitar Arrangements."
New York: Shapiro, Bernstein & Tilzer, 1901.
Sheet Music.
Music Division (25d)

T. P. Trinkaus.
"Popular Arrangements for Mandolin and Guitar."
New York: M. Witmark & Sons, 1900.
Sheet Music.
Music Division (25d.1)

Bert Williams.
Portrait of Bert Williams, 1922.
Copyprint.
Prints and Photographs Division (26)

Publicity photos of Bert Williams in costume,
ca. 1922.
Copyprints.
Prints and Photographs Division (27b, 27c)

Eddie Foy's dancing shoes, ca. 1910.
Courtesy of the Bob Hope Archives (28)

Photograph of Eddie Foy, ca. 1910.
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting
and Recorded Sound Division (28b)

Harry Houdini's handcuffs with key,
ca. 1900.
Courtesy of Houdini Historical Center,
Appleton, Wisconsin (28a, 28c)

Gus Edwards.
Musical score for "It's a Good World, After All,"
1906.
Music Division (29)

Ernest R. Ball.
"The Birds in Georgia Sing of Tennessee," 1908.
Musical score.
Music Division (29.1)

Leslie Mohr and Piantadosi.
"I'm a Yiddish Cowboy."
New York: Ted. S. Barron Music, 1909.
Sheet music.
Music Division (29a)

Will J. Harris and Harry I. Robinson.
"Yonkle the Cow-Boy Jew."
Chicago: Will Rossiter, 1908.
Sheet music.
Music Division (29a.1)

Composite photograph of vaudeville joke books
Yankee, Italian, and Hebrew Dialect Readings and Recitations. New York: Henry J. Wahman, 1891.
Vaudeville Joke Books New Vaudeville Jokes. Cleveland: Arthur Westbrook, 1909.
New Dutch Jokes. Cleveland: Arthur Westbrook, 1909.
Jew Jokes. Cleveland: Arthur Westbrook, 1909.
Ethnic Joke Books Chop Suey. Cleveland: Arthur Westbrook, 1909.
Irish Jokes. Cleveland: Cleveland News, 1907.
Dark Town Jokes. Cleveland: Arthur Westbrook, 1908.
Rare Book and Special Collections Division (29b-h)

George J. Southwick. Southwick's Monologues. Chicago: Will Rossiter, 1903.
Rare Book and Special Collections Division (30)

Richy Craig, Jr., Joke Notebook, ca. 1930.
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting
and Recorded Sound Division (31)

Joke Notebook,
ca. 1930.
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting
and Recorded Sound Division (31.2)

Bob Hope Scrapbook, 1925-1930.
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting
and Recorded Sound Division (33)

Bob Hope's vaudeville tour contract, 1929.
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting
and Recorded Sound Division (34)

Bob Hope's vaudeville contract.
Typewritten manuscript, 1930.
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting and
Record Sound Division (34.1)

Advertisement for Columbia Copyright & Patent Company.
The New York Clipper, November 3, 1906.
Reproduction.
General Collections (36)

LeFevre's Railway Fare.
New York: John J. LeFevre, 1910.
General Collections (37)

Censorship card,
May 27, 1933.
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting
and Recorded Sound Division (37.1)

Julius Cahn's Official Theatrical Guide. New York, 1910.
Motion Picture, Broadcasting
and Recorded Sound Division (38)

Review of Bob Hope's vaudeville act,
Billboard, Cincinnati: The Billboard Publishing Company,
November 23, 1929.
Reproduction.
General Collections (40)

Frederic La Delle.
How to Enter Vaudeville.
Michigan: Excelsior Printing Company, 1913.
Reproduction of title page.
General Collections (41a)

Houdini at the Orpheum Poster. 1918.
Prints and Photographs Division

Novelty Acts

Eugene Sandow. 1894
Prints and Photographs Division

Bicycle Act. 1907
Prints and Photographs Division

Roly Poly Dancing Dolly. 1915
Prints and Photographs Division

J. T. Doyle with fire. ca. 1902
Prints and Photographs Division

Dog Act. 1921
Dramatic Mirror. New York, 1921.
General Collections

Family Acts

Daisy and Violet Hilton. 1925
Prints and Photographs Division

Eddie Foy with his children. ca.1910
Bob Hope Collection.
Motion Picture Broadcasting
and Recorded Sound Division

Buster Keaton. 1908
Dramatic Mirror. New York, 1908.
General Collections

The Dolly Sisters. ca. 1915 - 1920
Prints and Photographs Division

Black-Face Acts

Lew Dockstader. 1902
Prints and Photographs Division

McIntyre & Heath. 1916
Prints and Photographs Division

Eddie Cantor. 1941
Prints and Photographs Division

Bert Williams. ca. 1922
Prints and Photographs Division

Al Jolson. 1927
Prints and Photographs Division

Dancers

Sally Rand. 1934
Prints and Photographs Division

Irene & Vernon Castle. 1914
Prints and Photographs Division

Fred & Adele Astaire. ca. 1925
Prints and Photographs Division

Paul & Grace Hartman. 1935
Prints and Photographs Division

Hope & Byrne. ca. 1925
Bob Hope Collection.
Motion Picture Broadcasting
and Recorded Sound Division

Comedy Teams

The Three Stooges. 1938
Prints and Photographs Division

The Marx Brothers. 1931
Prints and Photographs Division

Weber & Fields. ca. 1920
Prints and Photographs Division

Smith & Dale. 1955
Prints and Photographs Division

Olsen & Johnson. 1939
Prints and Photographs Division

Montgomery & Stone. ca. 1916
Prints and Photographs Division

Burns & Allen.
1924 National Vaudeville Artists Yearbook. 1924.
General Collections

Bert Lahr and Mercedes.
1925 National Vaudeville Artists Yearbook. 1925.
General Collections

Illusion and Magic

Houdini vanishing an elephant. 1918
Prints and Photographs Division

Male-Female Impersonators

Kitty Doner. 1923
Prints and Photographs Division

Vesta Tilley. 1906
Prints and Photographs Division

Julian Eltinge.
1913. New York Clipper. New York, 1913.
General Collections

Ventriloquists

Fred Allen with dummy. ca. 1916
Prints and Photographs Division

Comic Singers

Jimmy Durante. ca. 1950
Prints and Photographs Division

Fanny Brice. 1910
Prints and Photographs Division

Harry Lauder. ca. 1911
Prints and Photographs Division

Trixie Friganza. ca. 1907
Prints and Photographs Division

May Irwin. 1898
Prints and Photographs Division

Elsie Janis. 1910
American Stage of Today.
New York, 1910.
General Collections

Willie Solar.
1924 National Vaudeville Artists Yearbook.
1924.
General Collections

Monologists and Entertainers

Will Rogers. ca. 1920
Prints and Photographs Division

George Jessel. 1932
Prints and Photographs Division

Bob Hope at the Palace. 1932
Billboard. Cincinnati, 1932.
General Collections

Musicians

Harry Richman. 1932
Prints and Photographs Division

Ted Lewis. 1931
Prints and Photographs Division

Borah Minevitch. 1952
Prints and Photographs Division

Comedians

Will Mahoney. 1956
Prints and Photographs Division

Marie Dressler. 1909
Prints and Photographs Division

Marie Dressler with hat over head. 1909
Prints and Photographs Division

W.C. Fields. ca. 1934
Prints and Photographs Division

Bert Lahr. 1934
Prints and Photographs Division

Ed Wynn. ca. 1930
Prints and Photographs Division

Willie Howard. 1941
Prints and Photographs Division

Molly Picon. ca. 1930-35
Prints and Photographs Division

Milton Berle. 1952
Prints and Photographs Division

Jack Benny.
1924 National Vaudeville Artists Yearbook.
1924.
General Collections

Singers/Entertainers

Lillian Russell. 1895
Prints and Photographs Division

Ruth Etting, 1929.
Theater, 1929.
General Collections

Nora Bayes. ca. 1920
Prints and Photographs Division

Eva Tanguay. 1913.
Billboard. Cincinnati, 1913.
General Collections

June Havoc.
1924 National Vaudeville Artists Yearbook.
1924.
General Collections

Aileen Stanley. 1921
Dramatic Mirror. New York, 1921.
General Collections

Actors

Sarah Bernhardt. ca. 1890
Prints and Photographs Division

Anna Held. 1896
Prints and Photographs Division

Winnie Lightner. 1927
Prints and Photographs Division

Fanny Ward. 1894
Prints and Photographs Division

Roberta.
Souvenir program cover, 1934.
Reproduction.
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting and
Recorded Sound Division ( 42a.1)

Program for Gowns by Roberta.
Forest Theatre, Philadelphia, October 23, 1933.
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting
and Recorded Sound Division (42a)

Dolores Reade at the Vogue Club,
December 1933.
Copyprint.
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting
and Recorded Sound Division (42)

Program from "A Night With the Stars,"
Greenbrier Hotel, White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, 1935.
Copyprint.
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting
and Recorded Sound Division (43)

Bob Hope and Dolores Reade, 1935. Photograph.
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting
and Recorded Sound Division (43a)

Run-down of a vaudeville show, August 3, 1934.
Typed program.
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting
and Recorded Sound Division (43c)

Thanks for the Memory,
with special lyrics dedicated to vaudeville, 1938.
Typed manuscript.
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting
and Recorded Sound Division (43d)

Autographed photograph of Dolores Reade,
Photograph, ca. 1933.
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting and
Recorded Sound Division (43f)

Vogue nightclub program, 1933.
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting and
Recorded Sound Division (43g)

Bob Hope.
Have Tux, Will Travel: The Bob Hope Story.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1954.
General Collections (44)

Program printed on fabric,
February 23, 1936.
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, (44.1)

Ziegfeld Follies of 1936.
New York, 1936. Program.
Music Division (47)

Ira Gershwin.
"I Can't Get Started." 1936.
Typewritten manuscript with
Holograph emendations.
Music Division (48a)

Autographed photograph of actress Eve Arden, ca. 1936.
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting
and Recorded Sound Division (48)

Bob Hope with Fanny Brice as "Baby Snooks."
New York: Murray Korman, ca. 1936.
Copyprint.
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting
and Recorded Sound Division (49)

Jimmy Durante, Ethel Merman, and Bob Hope in Red, Hot and Blue!, 1936.
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting
and Recorded Sound Division (50a)

Advertising flyer for Red, Hot and Blue!
Alvin Theatre, New York, 1936.
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting
and Recorded Sound Division (50)

Program for "Burns & Hope At Madison Square Garden."
New York, October 1, 1989.
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting
and Recorded Sound Division (51)

Jubilee! at Bally's,
Las Vegas, ca. 1996.
Copyprint.
Courtesy of Bally's, Las Vegas (51b)

Program for Jubilee! at Bally's,
Las Vegas, ca. 1996.
Courtesy of Bally's, Las Vegas (51a)

Stand-up act at the Raleigh Hotel,
Catskill Mountains, New York, 1970.
Courtesy of Catskill Entertainers/Native New Yorker
Hall of Fame and Museum. (53aa)

Program featuring Danny Kaye, Beatrice Kay and Rose Marie.
"Highlight and Shadows." Catskill Mountains, New York, 1937.
Courtesy of Catskill Entertainers/Native New Yorker
Hall of Fame and Museum.(53a)

Advertising flyer for Ted Lewis Orchestra and Revue.
Beverly Hills Country Club.
Newport, Kentucky, late 1940s.
Motion Picture, Broadcasting
and Recorded Sound Division (53b)

The Motor-Town Revue.
Detroit: Motown, ca. 1960.
Motion Picture, Broadcasting
and Recorded Sound Division (53e)

Printed flyer, 1963.
Courtesy of Experience Music Project (53E.3)

Vaudeville acts at RKO Palace Theatre.
Printed poster, 1949.
Motion Picture, Broadcasting and
Recorded Sound Division (53E.2)

Advertising flyer, 1981.
Courtesy of Experience Music Project (53E.1)

Clipped advertisement from one of Bob Hope's personal scrapbooks,
ca. 1920.
Reproduction.
Courtesy Hope Archives (53f)

Program for "Mardi Gras de Paree."
New York: The Latin Quarter, 1949.
Music Division (53g)

Pat Rich. Show at The Latin Quarter, New York, ca. 1950.
Copyprint.
Music Division (53h)

Meet the Baron.
Poster, 1933.
Prints and Photographs Division (63B.1)

House-Rent Party.
1946,
Movie Poster.
Prints and Photographs Division (63B.2)

The Big T.N.T. Show.
Poster, 1966.
Courtesy of Experience Music Project (63A.1)

Marshall Wilder, 1886.
Copyprint.
Prints and Photographs Division (111)

The Riddle House Monolog.
Typed manuscript. Marshall Wilder Collection,
Manuscripts Division (112)

Notes for The Riddle House monolog.
Typed manuscript, with
Holograph emendations. Marshall Wilder Collection,
Manuscripts Division (110)

Marshall Wilder,
"Melodrama-up-to-date," n.d.
Holograph and typewritten notes.
Manuscript Division (110-s1, 112-s1)

Telegram from Al Boasberg to Bob Hope,
November 19, 1930.
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting
and Recorded Sound Division (113)

Letter from Al Boasberg to Bob Hope, ca. 1930.
Typewritten manuscript.
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division (114.3)

Bob Hope's manuscript jokes,
ca. 1930s.
Page 2
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division (113.1a, b)

Berman.
Caricature of Jerry Colonna and Bob Hope.
Lithograph, ca. 1947.
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting and
Recorded Sound Division (107A)

Script of Little Miss Muffet, May 27, 1932.
Typed manuscript.
U.S. Copyright Office Archives (114)

The Marx Brothers. Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel, January 23, 1933.
Typed manuscript.
U.S. Copyright Office Archives (116)

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, 1952.
Copyprint.
New York World Telegram and Sun Collection,
Prints and Photographs Division (118)

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello.
Script of "The Hole in the Wall," January 23, 1940.
Typed manuscript.
Manuscripts Division (117)

Jerry Seinfeld and Jason Alexander.
Copyprint.
Courtesy of Castlerock Entertainment (120)

Larry David. Seinfeld script for "The Finale," May 14, 1998.
Typed manuscript.
U.S. Copyright Office Archives (119)

Cartoon cell for The Simpsons, 1992.
Courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox (122)

Jeff Martin.
Typed script of "Lisa the Beauty Queen." The Simpsons, March 27, 1992. The
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting
and Recorded Sound Division (121)

Lee de Forest. De Forest Phonofilm, ca. 1924.
Motion Picture, Broadcasting
and Recorded Sound Division (54)

De Forest Phonofilm frames, ca. 1925.
Reproduction.
Motion Picture, Broadcasting
and Recorded Sound Division (55)

Cameraman inside soundproof camera booth, ca. 1926.
Copyprint.
Prints and Photographs Division (56)

Vitaphone projection booth, ca. 1926.
Copyprint.
Prints and Photographs Division (58)

Roy Smeck.
Pastimes,
Camden, New Jersey: Victor Talking Machine Company,
July 14, 1926.
Vitaphone disk.
Motion Picture, Broadcasting
and Recorded Sound Division (59)

Phonofilm advertisement.
The Daily Herald (Biloxi), 1925.
Reproduction.
Courtesy of Joe Showler (59a)

Composite of assorted news clippings from Variety, 1929.
Reproduction.
Courtesy of Variety.
General Collection (60)

The Fire Chief, 1933.
Movie Poster.
Prints and Photographs Division (63a)

Twenty Million Sweethearts, 1935.
Movie Poster.
Prints and Photographs Division (63b)

Billy Rose and Fred Fischer.
"I'd Rather Be Blue Over You."
My Man. New York: Irving Berlin, Inc., 1928.
Sheet music.
George Moss Collection,
Music Division (65)

Telegram from Louis Shurr to Lester Shurr,
July 14, 1937.
Postal telegraph.
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting
and Recorded Sound Division (66-s1)

Telegram from Louis Shurr to Bob Hope,
July 15, 1937.
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting
and Recorded Sound Division (66)

The Big Broadcast of 1938 Publicity Book, 1938.
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting
and Recorded Sound Division (67)

Jack Yellen and Milton Ager.
"He's a Good Man to Have Around."
Ager, Yellen & Bornstein, Inc.: New York, 1929.
Sheet Music.
Music Division (65.1)

Leo Robin and Ralph Rainger.
Thanks for the Memory."
New York: Paramount Music Corporation, 1937.
Music Division (68)

Damon Runyon.
"The Brighter Side."
Los Angeles Examiner, March 13, 1938.
Reproduction.
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting
and Recorded Sound Division (69)

Road to Rio lobby card.
National Screen Service Corporation, 1948.
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting
and Recorded Sound Division (70)

Life Magazine,
February 4, 1946, cover.
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting
and Recorded Sound Division (71)

Road to Bali.
Lobby card, 1953.
Card 2
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting and
Recorded Sound Division (70.1)

Photographs from The Road to Morocco in 1940.
Copyprints.
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting
and Recorded Sound Division (73a, 73b, 73c, 73d)

Autographed photograph of Bing Crosby, 1945.
Courtesy of Bob Hope Archives (74)

"Put it There Pal" lyrics with handwriten emendations, 1946.
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting
and Recorded Sound Division (75)

The Road to Utopia script page.
Typewritten manuscript with
holographic emendations, 1946.
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting and
Recorded Sound Division (75.1)

Lobby card for The Seven Little Foys.
National Screen Service Coporation, 1955.
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting
and Recorded Sound Division (77)

Composite photograph for The Seven Little Foys, 1955.
Copyprint.
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting
and Recorded Sound Division (78)

Joseph J. Lilley.
Musical score for The Seven Little Foys, 1954.
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting
and Recorded Sound Division (79)

Report from preview screening for The Seven Little Foys, 1955.
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting
and Recorded Sound Division (80a)

Promotion schedule for The Seven Little Foys,
June 25-28, 1955.
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting
and Recorded Sound Division (80a-s1)

Honorary Academy Award statuette, 1953.
Courtesy of Bob Hope Archives (82)

Jokes from the Academy Award Ceremony, 1969.
Typewritten manuscript with emendations.
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting
and Recorded Sound Division (83)

Map of NBC stations in 1937.
Created May 2000.
Library of Congress (85)

NBC microphone, ca. 1940.
Courtesy of Bob Hope Enterprises (86)

WEAF Corrected Traffic Sheets, 1932.
Log Book.
NBC Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting
and Recorded Sound Division (87a)

WEAF Corrected Traffic Sheets, 1932.
Log Book.
NBC Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting
and Recorded Sound Division (87b)

Recording of The Pepsodent Show,
February 3, 1948.
Lacquer disk.
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting
and Recorded Sound Division (88)

Artist card for Fred Allen's radio performances, 1930-1934.
NBC Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting
and Recorded Sound Division (89a)

Artist card for Jack Benny's radio performances, 1930-1934.
NBC Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting
and Recorded Sound Division (89b)

Bob Hope and Judy Garland,
ca. 1940.
Copyprint.
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting and
Recorded Sound Division (89C.1)

Jack Benny and Bob Hope publicity photograph,
ca. 1940.
Copyprint.
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting
and Recorded Sound Division (89C.2)

Jack Benny and Fred Allen, 1936.
Copyprint. Prints and Photographs Division (89c)

Sponsor card for Fred Allen's radio program, 1949,
and Jack Benny's radio program, 1944.
NBC Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting
and Recorded Sound Division (90a, 90b)

Telegram, November 19, 1940.
NBC Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting
and Recorded Sound Division (92)

"Proceedings NBC War Clinic,"
New York, 1942.
Typewritten manuscript.
NBC Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting
and Recorded Sound Division (92-s1)

Telegram,
September 25, 1940.
NBC Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting
and Recorded Sound Division (92.2)

John Collier.
Family of a Portuguese dory fisherman.
Massachusetts: US Office of War Information, 1942.
Copyprint.
Prints and Photographs Division (93a)

Ed Wynn as "The Fire Chief," ca. 1935.
Copyprint.
Prints and Photographs Division (94)

Radio Round-Ups.
Boston: Lothrop, Lee, and Shepard, 1932.
General Collections (95)

"Olsen and Johnson,"
ca. 1935.
Printed pamphlet.
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division (96a)

"Ken Murray's Radio Monologues,"
ca. 1934.
Page 2
Printed pamphlet.
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division (96b)

"Radio's Effect on Theatre,"
Variety, November 17, 1926.
Reproduction.
General Collections (97a)

"5,000,000 Listen in on New Hook-Up."
The Boston Daily Globe, November 16, 1926.
Reproduction.
Serial and Government Publications Division (97b)

Bob Hope artist card, 1944.
NBC Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting
and Recorded Sound Division (98)

Woodbury Program Audition Sheet, April 9, 1937.
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting
and Recorded Sound Division (100)

Cartoon, 1940s.
Newspaper cartoon.
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting and
Recorded Sound Division (100A)

Pepsodent Toothpaste Box,
1940s.
Courtesy of Bob Hope Archives (102b)

Radio Daily, December 23, 1941.
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting
and Recorded Sound Division (102a)

Bob Hope with troops, December 7, 1943.
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting
and Recorded Sound Division (103)

Bob Hope. They Got Me Covered. Hollywood: 1941.
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting
and Recorded Sound Division (104)

"Thanks for the Memory" lyrics, 1945.
Typed manuscript with
Handwritten emendations.
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting
and Recorded Sound Division (105)

Radio-TV Mirror award, 1953. Gold medal.
Courtesy of Bob Hope (106)

Radio script draft, April, 1948.
Handwritten manuscript.
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting
and Recorded Sound Division (106a)

Bob Hope with writers, ca. 1946.
Copyprint.
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting
and Recorded Sound Division (106b)

The Pepsodent Show cast, ca. 1946.
Copyprint.
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting
and Recorded Sound Division (107)

Berman.
Caricature of Jerry Colonna and Bob Hope.
Lithograph, ca. 1947.
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting and
Recorded Sound Division (107A)

Monolog from The Pepsodent Show.
Typewritten manuscript, January 13, 1942.
Courtesy of Bob Hope Archives (102a.1)

Script pages from The Pepsodent Show.
Typewritten manuscript,
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting
and Record Sound Division (104.1a, b)

Closing monolog from The Pepsodent Show.
Typewritten manuscript, May 8, 1945.
Page 2 - Page 3 - Page 4
Page 5 - Page 6
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting and
Recorded Sound Division (105.1)

Look Magazine, April 10, 1951, cover.
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting
and Recorded Sound Division (123)

Variety, May 26, 1948.
General Collections (125)

Letter from John Royal to Bob Hope, June 29, 1949.
Typed manuscript.
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting
and Recorded Sound Division (128)

Letter from Bob Hope to John Royal, July 13, 1949.
Typed manuscript.
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting
and Recorded Sound Division (129)

Page from a photo album, 1950.
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting
and Recorded Sound Division (130)

Advertisement for Star Spangled Revue, 1950.
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting
and Recorded Sound Division (131)

Correspondence from Robert McFaden
to Sylvester Weaver, April 14, 1950.
Typed manuscript.
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting
and Recorded Sound Division (133)

Prop list and rehearsal sheet for Your Show of Shows,
February 25, 1950.
Typed manuscript.
Sid Caesar Collection,
Manuscripts Division (134, 135)

Caesar's Hour #43, "Commuters," 1956.
Typewritten manuscript.
Manuscript Division (134s1)

"Props and Artwork"
for Caesar's Hour #43, 1956.
Typewritten manuscript.
Manuscript Division (135s1)

Notecard with Carson's introduction of Hope
on December 15, 1989, show.
Carson Collection,
Manuscripts Division (136)

Script of The Tonight Show, December 15, 1989.
Typed manuscript. Carson Collection,
Manuscripts Division (137)

Hope monolog for The Tonight Show, December 15, 1989.
Typed manuscript, with annotations.
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting
and Recorded Sound Division (138)

The Tonight Show line-up, December 15, 1989.
Typed manuscript. Carson Collection,
Manuscripts Division (136a)

Red Skelton, Bob Hope,
and Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show,
December 21, 1989.
Copyprint.
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting
and Recorded Sound Division (139)

Photograph showing filming of Your Show of Shows, ca. 1950.
Copyprint.
Prints and Photographs Division (140)

Bob Fosse notebook, ca. 1970.
Bob Fosse and Gwen Verdon Collection,
Manuscripts Division (141)

Liza with a "Z." Liza Minnelli.
Columbia Records/CBS, 1972.
Music Division (142)

Bob Fosse.
Original concept for Liza With a Z,
May 1971.
Typed manuscript.
Bob Fosse and Gwen Verdon Collection,
Music Division (143)

Photograph for TV Guide cover.
Photograph, 1981.
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting and
Recorded Sound Division (144)

Letter from Jack Benny.
Typewritten manuscript with
holographic emendations,
January 16, 1964.
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting and
Recorded Sound Division (145)

Letter from Johnny Carson to Bob Hope.
December 3, 1997.
Holographic manuscript.
Transcript
Copyright Johnny Carson.
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting and
Recorded Sound Division (146)

Telegram from George Burns to Bob Hope.
Telegram, May 21, 1991.
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting and
Recorded Sound Division (147)

Annie Leibovitz.
Bob Hope in his joke vault.
Photograph, July 17, 1995.
Courtesy of Annie Leibovitz (197)

Jokes from Bob Hope's Joke File
December 15, 1953
Typed manuscript with
Holographic notations. ©Bob Hope Enterprises.
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting,
and Recorded Sound Division

Radio broadcast, 1943.
Copyprint.
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting
and Recorded Sound Division (150)

Sponsor card for Bob Hope's Pepsodent Show,
February-June 1942.
NBC Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting
and Recorded Sound Division (152)

I Never Left Home,
June 1944.
78-rpm record album.
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting
and Recorded Sound Division (153)

Application for Permit to Enter Alaska, 1942.
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting and
Recorded Sound Division (153A)

Guitarist Tony Romano accompanies Frances Langford
in an impromptu performance, 1944.
Copyprint.
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting
and Recorded Sound Division (154a)

On the Road to Vietnam.
Chicago: Cadet Records, 1965.
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting
and Recorded Sound Division (156)

A Bob Hope U.S.O. show in Vietnam, 1968.
Copyprint.
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting
and Recorded Sound Division (156a)

Carl Hubenthal.
Merry Christmas to GI Joe.
Oil painting, 1968.
Courtesy of Bob Hope Archives (156b)

Bob Hope's Packing List for a U.S.O. tour, 1969.
Typed manuscript.
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting
and Recorded Sound Division (157)

Hope scrapbook from U.S.O. tour, 1969.
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting
and Recorded Sound Division (158)

Golf club that Bob Hope carried
on stage during his 1969 U.S.O. tour.
Courtesy of Bob Hope Archives (160)

Mug made from an artillery shell casing, 1969.
Copper plate reads "Mr. BH Code 124 From #88
TFW Korat RTAFB December 1969."
Courtesy Bob Hope Archives. (162)

Photo Album given to Bob Hope
by Marine William Gwin, 1969.
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting
and Recorded Sound Division (167)

Dolores Hope singing to troops, ca. 1990.
Copyprint.
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting
and Recorded Sound Division (168)

Letter from prisoner of war, Frederic Flom,
written on back of wrapper,
February 24, 1973.
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting
and Recorded Sound Division (169a)

Letter from Denise Colasuonno to Bob Hope,
January 15, 1970.
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting
and Recorded Sound Division (169b)

Letter from John Mann to Bob Hope,
June 21, 1970.
Typewritten manuscript.
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting
and Recorded Sound Division (169a-s1)

Letter from Howard Lindsay to Bob Hope,
August 24, 1944.
Typewritten manuscript.
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting
and Recorded Sound Division (169b-s1)

Letter of response from Bob Hope,
October 6, 1944.
Typewritten manuscript.
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting
and Recorded Sound Division (169c)

Letter from Clark Dennis to Bob Hope, ca. 1944.
Manuscript.
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division (169b.2)

Letter of response from Bob Hope, June 6, 1945.
Typewritten manuscript.
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division (169c.1)

Appointment book, 1983.
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting
and Recorded Sound Division (170)

Letter from President Nixon to Bob Hope,
May 5, 1978.
Holograph manuscript.
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting
and Recorded Sound Division (171a)

Letter from President Richard M. Nixon to Bob Hope,
December 15, 1975.
Typewritten manuscript with
Holograph emendations.
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting
and Recorded Sound Division (171a-s1)

Letter from Bob Hope to Rose Mary Woods,
April 17, 1974.
Typewritten manuscript.
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting
and Recorded Sound Division (171b)

Bob Hope with President Clinton, October 5, 1995;
with President Bush, ca. 1992;
with President Reagan, ca. 1985;
with President Nixon, 1969. Copy Prints.
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture Broadcasting
and Recorded Sound Division (172a-d)

Bob Hope with President-elect John F. Kennedy,
Vice President-elect Lyndon Johnson,
Eleanor Roosevelt, and Stuart Symington, 1960.
Copyprint.
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture Broadcasting
and Recorded Sound Division (173)

Honor America Day. Landmark Records, 1970.
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture Broadcasting
and Recorded Sound Division (174)

Excerpt from monolog delivered
at the Academy Awards, 1970.
Typewritten manuscript.
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture Broadcasting
and Recorded Sound Division (174a)

Bob Hope's Congressional Gold Medal, 1962.
Courtesy of Bob Hope Archives. (177)

Photograph of Bob Hope holding the medal,
President Kennedy, Dolores Hope and guests, 1962.
Copyprint.
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting
and Recorded Sound Division (198)

The Adventures of Bob Hope.
New York: National Periodical Publications, 1963.
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting
and Recorded Sound Division (179a)

The Adventures of Bob Hope.
New York: National Periodical Publications, 1963.
Bob Hope Collection,
Motion Picture, Broadcasting
and Recorded Sound Division (179b)

Bob Hope Tiki Sculpture, 1971.
Ceramic.
Courtesy of Bob Hope Archives (180)

Bust of Bob Hope, ca. 1960.
Plaster.
Courtesy of Bob Hope Archives (181)

Sculpture of Bob Hope golfing, 1979.
Wood.
Courtesy of Bob Hope Archives (195)

Bob Hope's profile, n.d.
Wood.
Courtesy of Bob Hope Archives (194)

Branding iron with Bob Hope's profile, n.d.
Iron.
Courtesy of Bob Hope Archives (189)

Derby L. Ulloa.
Bob Hope elephant sculpture, 1977.
Bronze.
Courtesy of Bob Hope Archives (182)

Money clip and dollar bill, ca. 1961.
Gold and paper.
Courtesy Bob Hope Archives (185)

S.C. De Regil. Bob Hope, 1940.
Gouache.
Courtesy Bob Hope Archives (187)

Ernest Hamlin Baker.
Original artwork for Time Magazine cover, 1943.
Gouache.
Courtesy of Bob Hope Archives (188a)

Time Magazine,
September 20, 1943.
Courtesy of Bob Hope Archives (188b)

Soo.
Three Stages of Hope, 1971.
Charcoal on velvet.
Courtesy of Bob Hope Archives (190)

Al Hirschfeld.
Bob Hope and the NBC Peacock.
Pen-and-ink drawing.
Courtesy of Bob Hope Archives (191)

Ashtray with Hope's likeness.
Beverly Hills: Czelç, 1954.
Ceramic.
Courtesy of Bob Hope Archives (192)

Bust of Bob Hope, ca. 1971.
Wicker.
Courtesy of Bob Hope Archives (183)

Don Barclay.
Hope and elf painting, ca. 1940.
Oil paint.
Courtesy of Bob Hope Archives (186)

G.I. Joe, 1998.
Pawtucket, Rhode Island: Hasbro Toys, 1998.
Courtesy of Sam Brylawski (196)

Annie Leibovitz.
Bob Hope in his Joke File vault.
Copyprint, July 17, 1995.
Courtesy of Annie Leibovitz (197)

Bob Hope's nose.
Bronze sculpture, n.d.
Courtesy of Bob Hope Archives (200)

Neckties with images of Bob Hope.
Silk, ca. 1949.
Courtesy of Bob Hope Archives (202)

Gene Lester.
Photograph of Bob Hope wearing the tie, ca. 1949.
Copyprint.
Courtesy of Bob Hope Archives (202C)

Cuff links with images of Bob Hope.
Back engraved "From Marvin H." Gold, n.d.
Courtesy of Bob Hope Archives (201ab)

Dan Barclay.
Caricature of Bob Hope with four eyes.
Original watercolor, 1998.
Courtesy of Bob Hope Archives (203)

Dick Berry.
Hand-carved toy.
Wood and paint, .n.d.
Courtesy of Bob Hope Archives (204)