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Richard Kavanaugh papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS729f

Scope and Content

This collection mostly contains personal and business correspondence relating to Kavanaugh's management of Cruise magazine.

Dates

  • 1973-2007, undated

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is open for research.

Conditions Governing Reproduction and Use

Unpublished manuscripts are protected by copyright. All requests to publish, quote, or reproduce must be submitted through the Kenan Research Center.

Administrative/Biographical History

Richard James Kavanaugh (1932-2012) was born in Beaumont, Texas, and grew up in East Caddo Parish, Louisiana. From 1950 to 1954. he attended Louisiana Tech University, then transferred to the Georgia Institute of Technology where he graduated with a degree in industrial management in 1955. He served as a jet pilot in the United States Air Force from 1955 to 1960 then worked a variety of jobs, including a dealer for Piper Aircraft, a fixed base operator at the Tifton Municipal airport in Tifton, Georgia, and two more fixed base operations in Moultrie, Georgia, and Parkaire Field, Georgia. He moved to Atlanta in 1968 to sell real estate and insurance. After 1975, he worked for International Publications on the magazine Missing, and then became a partner in Cavco, Inc., which published the gay nightlife and travel magazine Cruise from 1976 through the 1980s. In 1983, he moved back to Shreveport, Louisiana, where he published The Real Estate Book of Shreveport/Bossier and started a senior magazine that became known as The Golden Years in 2001.

Extent

5 folder(s)

Language

English

System of Arrangement

This collection is arranged alphabetically according to titles supplied by staff.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift, 2007

Description Control

This collection was processed in 2016.

Title
Richard Kavanaugh papers
Author
Hannah Givens
Date
September 2016
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin
Language of description note
Finding aid is written in English.

Repository Details

Part of the Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center Repository

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