INTRODUCTION
The Audiovisual Collection Sub-Group contains approximately 100 cubic feet of materials and 325 oversized, framed items documenting the life of Senator John H. Glenn, Jr. and the life of his wife, Anna "Annie" Castor Glenn. The materials date from 1896 to 2006, though the bulk of the materials date from 1959 to 1998. Included in the Audiovisual Collection are materials from the Glenn and Castor families, from John Glenn's childhood in New Concord, Ohio, from Glenn's military, space, and corporate careers, and from Glenn's political career as a United States Senator from Ohio. Approximately one-third of the sub-group consists of photographs ranging from family snapshots to photographs taken by various official photographers for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the United States Senate. Other types of visual materials in the collection include original works of art, limited edition prints, cartoons, portraits, maps, and motion pictures in both film and video format. Sound recordings contained within the collection include cassette and reel-to-reel tapes, phonographic recordings, and compact disks. The remainder of the collection consists of certificates and awards given to John and Annie Glenn and various types of ephemera collected by them.
ACCESS: The Audiovisual Collection Sub-Group is open to public research under the rules and regulations of The Ohio State University.
COPYRIGHTS: John and Anna Glenn have dedicated such copyrights as they possess in the Audiovisual Collection Sub-Group to the public. Consideration of all other copyrights is the responsibility of the author and the publisher.
PROCESSING NOTE: Jeffrey W. Thomas, with staff members, Michelle Drobik and Julie Petersen, processed and arranged the Audiovisual Collection Sub-Group from 1999 to 2006. Most of the items housed within the Audiovisual Collection arrived at The Ohio State University already separated by type of material. The culling performed for preservation purposes during the processing of the Senate Papers and the Non-Senate Papers Sub-Groups of the John Glenn Archives added further items, especially photographs, to the collection. With the exception of the photographs, the collection's box and folder inventory provides a listing on the item level of all the materials within the Audiovisual Collection.
Many of the series within the collection (cartoons, certificates, ephemera, maps, original art works, photographs, portraits, and prints) contain materials too large to fit within a standard size archival box. Workers processing these oversized materials sorted them first by type into their respective series, then by size for storage in suitable boxes. In addition, the collection contains close to three hundred framed items, each entered individually in the box and folder inventory under box numbers in the 900s. Listed at the end of the box and folder inventory for each series, when appropriate, are the items housed within the oversized boxes attached to the series, and the framed items included with that series.