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Correspondence, commercial scripts and other printed materials

The Church Life series documents Creech's work as a United Methodist minister in North Carolina and Omaha, Nebraska. The series contains papers beginning in 1981 from Creech's time at Warsaw United Methodist Church in Warsaw, NC through his defrocking in 1999. The bulk of the series comprises correspondence with parishioners and church officials, media coverage of his time as pastor including his sometimes controversial support of gay rights issues, church newsletters, and printed material. The First Trial and Second Trial subseries document the two church trials held in Nebraska that eventually led to Creech's defrocking in 1999.

Specimen book created by Heppenheimer & Maurer, dated approximately 1878, and distributed to Sauer, Farrell, & Co. Book contains about 120 pages with labels pasted on each side of each page. Each label has a four-digit number stamped in blue ink, ranging from the 1600s to the 7000s. The labels are not in numerical order. The book and its pages are in fair condition; the book's binding needs preservation work, the back cover is detached, and some pages are dirty. The labels' lithographs are in excellent condition, many with vibrant colors. The artwork is generally very bright with subjects tending towards an exotic or tropical feel.

These records document operations at the City Auditorium of Asheville, North Carolina, managed by Hubert Hayes from about 1945 to 1954. Entertainment documented in these records includes dances, athletic events, shows on ice, holiday-themed shows, patriotic entertainment, barber shop quartets, and solo performances by vocalists and other musicians. Materials include calendars, correspondence related to operations, correspondence with entertainers and business friends, printed Auditorium publicity items, photographs, financial reports, union contracts and other legal documents, and media/agent packets for entertainers and acts.