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Centron Corporation records

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 541
Overview

This collection includes materials and records created by Centron, a film production company based in Lawrence, Kansas, from its establishment through its purchase by Coronet in the 1980s. These materials cover financial documentation, production notes, photographic materials, audiovisual materials, film awards, and artifacts relating to Centron’s various film productions and to its overall operations.

Dates: 1947 - 1990

Papers of Herk Harvey

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1229
Overview

Herk Harvey was an actor, vice president, director, and producer for Centron Films in Lawrence, Kansas. This collection contains film treatments, notes, correspondence, catalogs, slides, contracts, a mayoral proclamation, news articles, photographs, scripts, and an Academy Award Nomination plaque.

Dates: 1962 - 2007

Richard Rhodes papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1134
Overview

Richard Rhodes, born in Kansas City, Kansas, is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author whose many books and articles reflect his wide ranging subject interests. In these papers are manuscripts of his writings, copies of his many published works, related correspondence, some personal material and photographs, and the author's extensive research files, containing more than one hundred audio tapes of interviews that he conducted.

Dates: 1938 - 2021