Richard Bizot Poster Collection
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Content Description
This collection is made up of the event posters for various Notre Dame campus events collected by Richard Bizot, a former English professor (1965-72). Bizot was the first faculty member to act as counsel to the Collegiate Jazz Festival (CJF) starting in 1967. Collection materials are posters advertising cultural and social events taking place across Notre Dame and in the surrounding community from 1969 to 1971. Outside of Notre Dame, the two other referenced locations in the collection materials are the O’Laughlin Auditorium in the Moreau Center for the Arts on Saint Mary’s College’s campus and the Laurel Club in South Bend, Indiana. These events were focused most heavily on music and the arts, including the CJF as well as other music and art festivals, concerts, as well as political rallies, protests, and similar events. The posters, themselves, are a mix of handmade (including the use of various mediums) and printed posters of varying proportions. Bizot also provided a notes document compiling his memories of the different events referenced by each of the posters, as well as short essays detailing his own involvement with the CJF and his interaction with the band “The Magnificent 7.” He also included a selection of photocopied newspaper and magazine articles relevant to the referenced events.
Dates
- Creation: 1968-2021
Creator
- Bizot, Richard Byron, 1939- (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Collection open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.) beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Works not in the public domain cannot be commercially exploited without permission of the copyright owners. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.
Biographical / Historical
While finishing the dissertation for his Ph.D. at the University of Virginia, Richard Bizot worked as an instructor at Notre Dame (1965-66). Upon its completion, he was an assistant professor at Notre Dame for five years (1966-72). Continuing in his professional career, Bizot was a professor of English at the University of Northern Florida, Jackson, from 1972 until his retirement with Emeritus status.
During his time teaching at Notre Dame, Bizot was the first faculty member to act as counsel to the Collegiate Jazz Festival in 1967. He was brought into this position by Paul Schlaver and John Noel—CJF chairs 1965-66 and 1966-67 respectively—in order to, in his own words in the notes provided with the collection materials, “improve the festival’s continuity of operation from year to year.” Bizot went on to maintain this position until he departed Notre Dame, after a total of five years.
Extent
.5 cubic foot (1 oversized, manilla filling folder)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
This collection is that of posters collected by Richard Bizot, former assistant professor at Notre Dame and faculty counsel to the Collegiate Jazz Festival, for social and cultural events of various natures that took place at the University of Notre Dame, Saint Mary’s College, and in the city of South Bend, IN from 1968 to 1971.
Arrangement
This collection is arranged in chronological order.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Materials donated to the University of Notre Dame Archives by Richard Byron Bizot on August 25, 2021.
Processing Information
Processed by Mairi Weber-Hess, Student Assistant. Finding aid completed May 2025.
General notes provided are taken from the supplemental material provided by Richard Bizot along side the collection, from his own recollection.
- Date
- 2025 May 28
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the University of Notre Dame Archives Repository