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From My House to the White House
The Hope Family
Hope family portrait, ca. 1915. Copyprint. Bob Hope Collection, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (001.00.00)
[Digital ID# 1]
Hope in Vaudeville
George Byrne and Lester Hope, ca. 1925. Copyprint. Bob Hope Collection, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (002.00.00)
[Digital ID# bhp0002]
“Another Will Rogers”
Twenty-first Annual Dinner of the White House Correspondents’ Association. Autographed program, March 4, 1944. Bob Hope Collection, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (004.00.00)
[Digital ID# bhp0004]
Al Schwartz (1910–1988). Jokes for Bob Hope, written for White House Correspondents’ Association annual dinner. March 4, 1944. Typescript. Bob Hope Collection, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (005.00.00)
[Digital ID# bhp0005]
Richard Wilson, “See Another Will Rogers in Bob Hope,” Des Moines Register, March 12, 1944. Reproduction. Bob Hope Collection, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (005.02.00)
[Digital ID # bhp0005_02]
Bob Hope and Eleanor Roosevelt
Bob Hope with Eleanor Roosevelt and Henry A. Wallace (1888–1965, to Hope’s right), ca. 1940s. Bob Hope Collection, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (006.00.00)
[Digital ID# bhp0006]
Inaugural Dinner for President Roosevelt
Inaugural dinner in honor of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Vice President Harry S. Truman, January 19, 1945. Printed Invitation. Bob Hope Collection, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (007.00.00)
[Digital ID# bhp0007]
Inaugural dinner in honor of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Vice President Harry S. Truman, January 19, 1945. Autographed program. Bob Hope Collection, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (007.01.00)
[Digital ID # bhp007_01]
A Dinner to Honor President Eisenhower
Telegram from Tony Muto to Bob Hope, May 21, 1956. Bob Hope Collection, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (005.01.00)
[Digital ID # bhp0005_01]
Political Humor
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The Fine Art of Ridicule
Will Rogers
Photograph of Will Rogers, 1930. Copyprint. New York World-Telegram and Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (009.00.00)
[Digital ID # ppmsca-24365]
Will Rogers. Rogers-isms: The Cowboy Philosopher on Prohibition. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1919. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (010.00.00)
[Digital ID # bhp0010]
Will Rogers. Rogers-isms: The Cowboy Philosopher on Prohibition. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1919. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (010.00.01)
[Digital ID # bhp0010p1]
Will Rogers. Rogers-isms: The Cowboy Philosopher and the Peace Conference. Stillwater, Oklahoma: Oklahoma State University Press, 1975. General Collections, Library of Congress (010.01.00)
[Digital ID # bhp0010_01]
Needling Those in Power
Bob Hope. “Bob Hope Declares Open Season on Politicians and Everyone’s Fair Game.” TV Guide, October 22, 1960. Bob Hope Collection, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (011.00.00)
[Digital ID# bhp0011p1 – bhp0011p2]
Vaudeville's Tony Pastor
Tony Pastor’s Troupe at Ford’s Opera House. Playbill, April 10, 1876. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (012.00.00)
[Digital ID# bhp0012]
Comic Relief for President Lincoln
David Ross Locke. Divers Views, Opinions, and Prophecies of Yoors Trooly Petroleum V. Nasby. Cincinnati: R. W. Carroll and Co., 1866. General Collections, Library of Congress (014.01.00)
[Digital ID# bhp0014_01]
“Mr. Dooley” and Theodore Roosevelt
Finley Peter Dunne. Mr. Dooley’s Philosophy. New York: R. H. Russell, 1900. General Collections, Library of Congress (013.00.00)
[Digital ID# bhp0013]
Theodore Roosevelt to Finley Peter Dunne, November 28, 1899. Typescript. Theodore Roosevelt Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (195.00.00)
Digital ID# bhp0195]
Political Humor
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Breaking with Tradition
Steve Allen
Letter from Steve Allen to Nat Hentoff, April 14, 1960. Reproduction. Bob Hope Collection, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (015.00.00)
[Digital ID# bhp0015]
Lenny Bruce
Lenny Bruce. How to Talk Dirty and Influence People: An Autobiography. Chicago: Playboy Press, 1965. General Collections, Library of Congress (027.00.00)
[Digital ID# bhp0027]
Mort Sahl
Robert Vose, photographer. Mort Sahl onstage in San Francisco, February 29, 1956. Look Magazine Photograph Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (017.00.00)
[Digital ID# ppmsca-24773]
Comedians of the 1950s
“Pies Still Fly but the New Comics Are Social Critics,” Look, August 15, 1961. Reproduction. General Collections, Library of Congress (018.00.00)
[Digital ID# bhp0018]
Stan Freberg
Satirist at Work, September 1961. UPI Photo. New York World-Telegram and Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (020.00.00)
[Digital ID# ppmsca-24367]
Political Humor
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The New Wave Hits the Mainstream
“I Am Not a Nut”
Lenny Bruce. “I Am Not a Nut, Elect Me!” Fantasy Records, 1960. Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (021.00.00)
[Digital ID# bhp0021p1]
William Murray. “Playboy Interview: Bob Hope,” 1973. Copy proofs. Bob Hope Collection, Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (029.00.00, 029.00.01, 029.00.02)
[Digital ID # bhp0029, bhp0029p1, bhp0029p2]
Letter from Walter Cronkite to Jules Feiffer, September 5, 1966. Jules Feiffer Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (026.04.00)
[Digital ID # bhp26_04]
Lenny Bruce. The Sick Humor of Lenny Bruce. San Francisco: Fantasy Records, 1958. Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (021.01.00)
[Digital ID # bhp0021_01]
Nichols and May
Mike Nichols and Elaine May. Improvisations to Music. Chicago: Mercury Records, 1958. Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (023.00.00)
[Digital ID# bhp0023p1 – bhp0023p2]
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