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Steve Allen (015.00.00)

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 (027.00.00)

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 (017.00.00)

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 (018.00.00)

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 (020.00.00)

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]

Dick Gregory - "From the Back of the Bus" (016.01.00)

Dick Gregory—"From the Back of the Bus"
Dick Gregory. From the Back of the Bus. New York: Avon Books, 1962. Courtesy of Betsy Nahum-Miller (016.01.00)
[Digital ID # bhp0016_01]

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