Skip to main content

Box 4

 Container

Contains 9 Results:

Magazine articles, Austin Homes and Gardens and 3rd Coast, 1981, 1986

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series contains posters, programs, flyers, product tie-ins, photos, film pressbooks, articles, clippings, T-shirts, and jackets. The material provides a general picture of the marketing done for Nelson and his band. The product tie-ins with such brands as Wrangler jeans and Country Time lemonade make use of Nelson's popularity and country image.

Dates: 1981, 1986

Clippings, 1976-1992

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series contains posters, programs, flyers, product tie-ins, photos, film pressbooks, articles, clippings, T-shirts, and jackets. The material provides a general picture of the marketing done for Nelson and his band. The product tie-ins with such brands as Wrangler jeans and Country Time lemonade make use of Nelson's popularity and country image.

Dates: 1976-1992

Program and correspondence relating to the Music Industry Division of the United Jewish Appeal, Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York dinner honoring Willie Nelson

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents From the Series:

One file holds a program of the Music Industry Division of the United Jewish Appeal Federation 21st Anniversary dinner honoring Willie Nelson with invitation to Bill Wittliff.

Dates: 1986

Memorabilia, includes sunglasses, joint roaches, belt buckle, photos, bandana, pins, running shoes, golf ball, etc.

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series is made up of personal effects--running shoes, bandannas, sunglasses, and t-shirts. Some of objects are souvenirs or promotions for concerts and Nelson's benefit project, Farm Aid.

Dates: undated

Memorabilia, includes badges, buttons, and guitar pick, undated

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents From the Series: In 1985, Nelson, alarmed by reports of failing family farms, decided, with the help of other performers, to stage concert benefits. The proceeds were to be channeled to provide assistance to needy agricultural families. Bill Wittliff served as an adviser to the project. His wife, Sally Wittliff, recommended the Massachusetts social activist, Carolyn Mugar, to administer the project. The first Farm Aid concert was held September 25, 1985 in Champaign, Illinois. By 1995, Nelson had done...
Dates: undated

Financial report, correspondence, copies of disbursement checks, press releases, congressional vote record, funding requests, National FFA Foundation Annual Report, and report entitled “Crisis in Rural Oklahoma: A Call for Understanding, Compassion, Justice, and Action”, 1985

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents From the Series: In 1985, Nelson, alarmed by reports of failing family farms, decided, with the help of other performers, to stage concert benefits. The proceeds were to be channeled to provide assistance to needy agricultural families. Bill Wittliff served as an adviser to the project. His wife, Sally Wittliff, recommended the Massachusetts social activist, Carolyn Mugar, to administer the project. The first Farm Aid concert was held September 25, 1985 in Champaign, Illinois. By 1995, Nelson had done...
Dates: 1985

Hotline numbers, list of organizations that received disbursements, correspondence, clippings, and Farmers’ Guide to FmHA (January 1986), 1985

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents From the Series: In 1985, Nelson, alarmed by reports of failing family farms, decided, with the help of other performers, to stage concert benefits. The proceeds were to be channeled to provide assistance to needy agricultural families. Bill Wittliff served as an adviser to the project. His wife, Sally Wittliff, recommended the Massachusetts social activist, Carolyn Mugar, to administer the project. The first Farm Aid concert was held September 25, 1985 in Champaign, Illinois. By 1995, Nelson had done...
Dates: 1985

Correspondence, Farm Aid fact sheet, summary organizations funded by Farm Aid, Farm Aid, Inc. matching grant program summary (draft), clippings, request for exemption sent to Internal Revenue Service, copies of disbursement checks, 1986

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents From the Series: In 1985, Nelson, alarmed by reports of failing family farms, decided, with the help of other performers, to stage concert benefits. The proceeds were to be channeled to provide assistance to needy agricultural families. Bill Wittliff served as an adviser to the project. His wife, Sally Wittliff, recommended the Massachusetts social activist, Carolyn Mugar, to administer the project. The first Farm Aid concert was held September 25, 1985 in Champaign, Illinois. By 1995, Nelson had done...
Dates: 1986

Correspondence, grant applications, memorandum of agreement relating to 1986 concert, ticket proposal from Shamrock Ticket Service, minutes of the organizational meeting of the Farmers’ Legal Action Group, Inc. and the group’s articles of incorporation and bylaws , 1986

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents From the Series: In 1985, Nelson, alarmed by reports of failing family farms, decided, with the help of other performers, to stage concert benefits. The proceeds were to be channeled to provide assistance to needy agricultural families. Bill Wittliff served as an adviser to the project. His wife, Sally Wittliff, recommended the Massachusetts social activist, Carolyn Mugar, to administer the project. The first Farm Aid concert was held September 25, 1985 in Champaign, Illinois. By 1995, Nelson had done...
Dates: 1986