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Guide to the Ray Sprigle Papers and Photographs 1915-1973
Metadata Details
- Title
- Ray Sprigle papers and photographs 1886-1973 (bulk 1930-1950)
- Subject
- Sprigle, Ray, Pittsburgh Post (Newspaper), Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Newspaper), Pullitzer Prizes--1938, Journalism--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh, Corruption--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh, Press--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh
- Description
- The Ray Sprigle papers and photographs contain materials compiled during his investigative reporting, correspondence with colleauges and family members, newsprint containing his stories, and a variety of professional and personal photographs. The materials were found in manila envelopes or brown paper bags, often with a label and date indicating the story or investigation the materials pertain too. In these cases, the materials have been left together to preserve their context. There are several oversized and wrapped items including four scrapbooks of his news stories and several placards advertising his reporting. The collection has been organized into three groups: I. News Stories and Cases (boxes 1-6), II. Correspondence and Papers (7-9), III. Photographs (10-11)., Ray Sprigle papers and photographs, 1886-1973 (bulk 1930-1950), MSS 0779, Thomas and Katherine Detre Library and Archives, Senator John Heinz History Center, Cataloging of this collection was funded by a Basic Processing grant from NHPRC., Rae Jean Kurland Gift 2006 2006.0228 papers, Ray Sprigle was a newspaper journalist for over 51 years, working primarily for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Sprigle was known for his investigative reporting of crime and injustice. Between the 1930s and 1950s many of his stories garnered national attention, and in 1938 he won a Pulitzer Prize for exposing the Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black affiliation with the Ku Klux Klan. Sprigle died in 1957 as a result of injuries sustained when another vehicle struck the taxi in which he was riding., Gift of Rae Jean Kurland., Processed MSS 0779 5/2012 A. Toner, Collection level finding aid available.
- Contributor
- Sprigle, Ray., Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center (depositor)
- Date
- 1915-1973
- Type
- Collection, Text
- Format
- print, manuscript, 10.50 linear feet
- Identifier
- oclc:825055983, pitt:US-QQS-mss779
- Language
- eng
- Relation
- http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=hswpead;cc=hswpead;rgn=main;view=text;didno=US-QQS-mss779
- Coverage
- Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh
- Rights
- Copyright Not Evaluated. The copyright and related rights status of this Item has not been evaluated. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use., http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
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