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Bally-Midway-Williams records
Charles Phillips papers
The collection documents Charles Phillips's career as a toy and game designer. The majority of the collection is undated, the remainder of the papers date from 1979 to 2019 with the bulk dating from 1981 to 1998. The materials consist of game design documents, game rules, game board drafts, game component and packaging proofs, correspondence, photographs, drawings, and reference material.
Duncan Brown collection of Williams pinball drawings
The Duncan Brown collection of Williams pinball drawings includes 277 gb of digital materials. The files are comprised of digital surrogates of images and documents related to the design, production, and advertisement of pinball machines. The materials date from 1932 to 2015, with the bulk of material dating from 1970 to 1990.
Howard Blumenthal papers
This collection consists of program development documents for Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?. The papers date from 1991 to 1995, with the bulk of materials dating from 1991. The papers are comprised of scripts, set blueprints, and drawings.
Ken Horowitz collection of electronic gaming oral histories
This collection consists of oral history interviews with video game and pinball industry professionals conducted by Ken Horowitz, video game scholar and author. The audio recordings are dated from 2006 to 2023. The materials are comprised of digital audio recordings and transcripts.
Norman Blumenthal papers
This collection consists of program development documents for the television game shows Concentration andTic-Tac-Dough. The papers date from 1958 to 1991, with the bulk of materials dating from 1978 to 1990. The papers are comprised of rebuses and question and answer cards.
Pinball playfields and drawings collection
Stephen K. Desroches papers
The Stephen K. Desroches papers provide a unique perspective of male childhood in the 1980s and 1990s. Materials in this collection exhibit creative activities, including homemade books, sticker books, photo albums, scrapbooks, and correspondence to pen pals and holiday characters. Additional items in this collection document events attended by Desroches throughout his life. The bulk of the materials are dated between 1982 and 1992.
Steven Epstein papers
This collection consists of the papers of Steven Epstein, owner of the Broadway Arcade in Manhattan, New York and founder of the Professional & Amateur Pinball Association (PAPA). The materials are dated from 1976 to 2014, with the bulk of the materials dated from 1983 to 1997. The papers are comprised of newspaper clippings, correspondence, scrapbooks, promotional materials, VHS cassettes, and more.