Carolyn Rauch event ephemera collection

Collection

Identifier: RAUCH

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Scope and Contents

This collection includes ephemera from the Electronic Entertainment Expo, E for All, and the Game Marketing Summit. These are mainly marketing materials, such as press kits, press releases, promotional brochures, event invitations, and programs. This also includes collections of event photographs, transcripts of event presentations, and digital press kits on CD.

Additionally, this collection includes various reports and studies issued by the ESA and typically distributed at the Electronic Entertainment Expo.

Dates

Publication: 1996–2017

Conditions Governing Access

The Video Game History Foundation has been given permission by Carolyn Rauch to reproduce material in this collection. The intellectual property rights for these materials remains with their respective owners. Although no materials in this collection are restricted, personal contact information has been redacted from some items.

Conditions Governing Use

To the extent that the donor, Carolyn Rauch, owns the rights to the materials in this collection, Rauch has allowed these materials to be reproduced for research and educational purposes (including both print and digital publication) with attribution to Carolyn Rauch and the Video Game History Foundation. The intellectual property rights for these materials remains with their respective owners.

Full Extent

3 Boxes

Language of Materials

English

Spanish; Castilian

Additional Description

Abstract

Carolyn Rauch was the senior vice president of the Interactive Digital Software Association (later the Entertainment Software Association) and a founding organizer of the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3). In various roles at the ESA and event organizer IDG World Expo, Rauch oversaw multiple gaming events, including E3; the public-facing spinoff event E for All; and the Game Marketing Summit (previously known as MI6).

Arrangement

This collection includes many promotional kit folders. In general, materials in these folders were cataloged together, which is how the were originally received. However, some materials may have been added to these folders after the fact; we could not verify that the items in these folders exactly match their original contents. Materials were separated when they obviously did not match their containing folder.

Due to their close affilation and related history, materials related to E for All have been organized with materials for the Electronic Entertainment Expo.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

This collection includes several computer discs with interactive applications that could not be made directly accessible in our digital archive. In these cases, we have provided video recordings of the programs as a surrogate for research access.

Digital copies of many of the industry reports in this collection are provided for free by the Entertainment Software Association (see "Custodial History" notes when relevant). These digital editions are presented as-is, and their presentation or formatting may differ slightly from the print editions held by the library.

Custodial History

These materials were donated to the Video Game History Foundation by Carolyn Rauch in October 2025, on referral from Smithsonian National Museum of American History museum specialist Drew Robarge.

Separated Materials

Carolyn Rauch's donation included copies of Electronic Entertainment Expo guidebooks and E3 Show Daily. These items were separated from this collection and merged into the library's existing collections (see "Trade show and event guidebooks" and "E3 Show Daily"). Copies donated by Rauch are noted in their individual records.