This collection contains posters and lobby cards, movie, radio and television scripts, correspondence, contracts, photographs, promotional materials, and ephemera. Included are materials related to such stars as Abbott and Costello, Annette Funicello, Greer Garson and Charles Laughton. There is also a number of film stills and cast photographs from Mack Sennett productions.

In addition, there is a small collection of materials related to horror and crime fiction including typed manuscripts and correspondence. Represented are authors such as Robert Bloch and Ed Wood.

Graphic materials include over 400 movie posters (mainly B-movies), an early poster from a stage production of Uncle Tom's Cabin, measuring 7 1/2 x 13 1/2 feet, and early Flea Circus wall panels.

***Due to possible copyright restrictions, Special Collections will not honor requests for copies/scans of significant portions of movie/radio/television scripts or literary manuscripts in the John K. McLaughlin Collection. Binghamton University Libraries cannot offer a legal opinion about copyright or copyright holders.