Blackstone, Harry (Henry Boughton). Archive of Harry Blackstone Research Interview and Entertainment Footage. Many hours of footage, comprised largely of privately recorded conversations and interviews conducted by Blackstone biographer Dan Waldron between 1966—70 with members of Blackstone’s company and family, together with some recordings of Blackstone himself. Stored on a total of 24 tape cassettes and 13 reels, some recordings running nearly two hours, each sold with an archival CD (and one DVD) transfer, subjects including: Blackstone’s appearance on CBS’s “It’s Magic” (ca. 1950 [16mm film reel]); “This is Your Life” and other Blackstone television recordings (audio only, one accompanied by a letter from George Johnstone to Bob Lund); radio personality Bud Guest offering recollections of Blackstone, whom he covered for the Detroit Free-Press; Blackstone advance man/billposter Fred Merrill (two tapes, parts of audio distorted or deteriorated); Anne and Peggy Gwynne (two tapes, one with the typed annotation: ”One side is blank, the other side is good for blackmail”); Walter and Litzka Gibson (three tapes, over two hours of audio total); Inez Blackstone-Kitchen reading over and commenting on Blackstone scrapbooks and records and more (several hours spanning five tapes and two reels); Charles MacDonald (two tapes); Sally Banks; Armond Stolz on the 1920 Blackstone tour; Ned Alvord; Jay Marshall, Sid Lorraine, Bruce Posgate, and others (recorded together at the Abbott’s Get-Together, 1968); Rev. Robert Olson reading over Blackstone programs; Pete and Millie Bouton; Harry Blackstone Jr.’s appearance on the Smothers Brothers Show (1967); Stephen Juhasz (Shepard); Janey Hays Forman; and others, some subjects unidentified.