"Hanna's War"

Al Checco was a prolific character actor, whose career spanned from the 1940's to his death in 2015. This collection consists mostly of memoriabilia, photographs, and scripts pertaining to Checco's career on the stage and screen. The majority of the collection spans from the 1950s-1990s and has been divided into four series, personal, professional, photographs, and AV.

The personal series (0.75 linear feet) contains mostly newspaper clipping spanning mostly from 1940-1970 as well as childhood memoriabilia and personal correspondence.

The professional series (2.25 linear feet) contains mostly playbilsl and scripts from many of Checco's performances.

The photographs series (2 linear feet) is divided into personal, professional, and scrapbooks. The personal photos are mostly childhood and family photographs, specifically highlighted are photos of Don Knotts, long time comedic partner of Al Checco. Professional photographs span throughout Checco's stage career. There are several scrapbooks that contain previously collected material mostly from the 40s and 50s, highlighting photographs, playbills, and some newspaper clippings.

The AV series (1 linear foot) is made up of tape and record voice recording as well as film and VHS.