Gerald Carson papers, 1854-1989 (bulk 1944-1985).

Open to research.

Correspondence, lectures and speeches, writings, research materials, and scrapbooks, pertaining to Carson's career as an advertising executive and to his research and publications in American social history. Includes a printed letter (1866) by the daredevil performer Jean François Gravelet Blondin.

Advertising industry executive, social historian, and author. Full name: Gerald Hewes Carson. Born 1899; died 1989.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms007052