Television Game Documents
Object Details
- Collection Donor
- Baer, Ralph H., 1922-2014
- See more items in
- Ralph H. Baer Papers
- Date
- 1966 - 1972
- Archival Repository
- Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Identifier
- NMAH.AC.0854, Series 4
- Type
- Archival materials
- Collection Citation
- Ralph H. Baer Papers, 1943-2015, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution.
- Collection Rights
- Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning intellectual property rights. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions. Copyright held by the Smithsonian Institution.
- Scope and Contents
- This series consists of records created during Baer's work on interactive television games at Sanders Associates. The records include notes, drawings, engineering schematics, laboratory notebooks, and administrative records created by Ralph Baer, William H. Harrison, and William T. Rusch. Baer retrieved these documents, with the assistance of David Winter, from a Chicago law firm years after they had been assembled for the various legal cases involving his television game inventions. Many of the documents are marked and stamped as trial exhibits. Rusch's notebooks include work on an electric guitar pick-up and other non-television game inventions. They also contain ideas about a wide range of games that might be developed. Because these papers were badly disorganized, the archival staff arranged them in the current order. The records in Series 4, Subseries 4, consist of copies of records in Subseries 1-3, apparently created before the originals were turned over to legal counsel. These documents are arranged as received from Ralph Baer. They may contain copies of some documents for which originals do not exist.
- Collection Restrictions
- Collection is open for research but is stored off-site and special arrangements must be made to work with it. Contact the Archives Center for information at [email protected] or 202-633-3270.
- Record ID
- ebl-1503513699154-1503513699179-9
- Metadata Usage
- CC0