Robert L. Ripley
LeRoy Robert Ripley (February 22, 1890 – May 27, 1949) was an American cartoonist, entrepreneur, and amateur anthropologist, who is known for creating the Ripley's Believe It or Not! newspaper panel series, television show, and radio show, which feature odd facts from around the world. Subjects covered in Ripley's cartoons and text ranged from sports feats to little-known facts about unusual and exotic sites. He also included items submitted by readers, who supplied photographs of a wide variety of small-town American trivia ranging from unusually shaped vegetables to oddly marked domestic animals, all documented by photographs and then depicted by his drawings. |
Birth and Death Data: Born December 25, 1890 (Santa Rosa), Died May 27, 1949 (New York City)
Date Range of DAHR Recordings: 1934
Roles Represented in DAHR: speaker
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Recordings
Company | Matrix No. | Size | First Recording Date | Title | Primary Performer | Description | Role | Audio |
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Victor | BS-82424 | 10-in. | 4/19/1934 | Believe it or not talk by Ripley | Robert L. Ripley | Talk | speaker | |
Victor | LBS-82425 | 10-in. (33-1/3 rpm) | 4/19/1934 | Believe it or not talk by Ripley | Robert L. Ripley | Talk | speaker |
Citation
Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Ripley, Robert L.," accessed May 7, 2024, https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/102663.
Ripley, Robert L.. (2024). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved May 7, 2024, from https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/102663.
"Ripley, Robert L.." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2024. Web. 7 May 2024.
DAHR Persistent Identifier
Linked Open Data Sources
LCNAR: Ripley, Robert L. (Robert LeRoy), 1890-1949 - http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80009780
Wikidata: Robert Ripley - http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q732327
VIAF: http://viaf.org/viaf/122040466
ISNI: 0000 0001 3994 6635 - http://www.isni.org/isni/0000000139946635
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