How to Win Your Letter (Athletics)

The Carl L. Tarnstrom Joke Collection is made up of a series of jokes, gags, and "odds and ends" collected and typed up by Tarnstrom himself for a period of over thirty years between the mid-1940s to the early-1980s. He gathered these jokes from television, radio, newspapers, professional comedians, and personal friends. The topics covered by his plethora of collected jokes include: politics, family, athletics, money and financing, sex, marriage, children, gambling, drinking, and many more. In some of the folders, Tarnstrom made several comments and edits to the jokes. In his introductory statement Tarnstrom states that he claims no originality for the content of his collection. This statement is located in the "Miscellaneous - Not placed yet" folder that, unlike the others, contains several pages of "unplaced" jokes and a few humorous anecdotes and skits. The "Notes" folder contains many pages of notes written by Tarnstrom as he formed and edited his collection's table of contents and introductory statement, and also contains a few original drawings.