Papers of a writer, producer and director of numerous television comedies. Catalog listing notes that the collection includes "scripts for radio programs" but only identifies the Beulah Show. Other papers may only deal with television. Check with repository for more information.
Papers of an early radio performer who was most famous for his composition "It Ain't Gonna Rain No Mo." The collection consists of biographical material and microfilmed scrapbooks, fan mail, miscellaneous printed matter and recordings, including one with Milton Berle.
Papers of the "Dean of American Radio Commentators" who introduced editorial analysis to radio news broadcasting. The bulk of the collection is made up of correspondence, scripts and recordings but there are also business and professional papers, book and article manuscripts, notes and scrapbooks. Radio scripts comprise a virtually complete record of his prepared broadcasts for Kaltenborn Edits the News and for a number of other series and specials. Supplementing the papers are more than 500 sound recordings of his regularly scheduled news broadcasts, chiefly 1940-1948, and other programs in which he was a participant. Correspondence includes Kaltenborn's involvement with the Association of Radio Television News Analysts, the Broadcast Pioneers, the Overseas Press Club, the Radio-Television Committee of the American Civil Liberties Union and the Kaltenborn Foundation.
Papers, primarily comprised of musical scores and parts, of a composer, arranger and conductor for radio and television and vice-president in charge of music for ABC. Also includes non radio sound recordings.
Papers of a Washington, DC, cultural impresario consisting chiefly of scripts for People and Events in the World of Music, a cultural affairs program aired by WGMS. Also includes correspondence and other papers.
Papers of an NBC broadcasting executive who served as vice-president in charge of its stations, planning and development and integrated services departments. Correspondence, 1926-1962, chiefly concerns Broadcast Pioneers, the National Association of Broadcasters, the "Chicago Daily News" and WMAQ. The limited NBC material is best for the inception of television during the late 1940s. Also includes speeches and articles, clippings, memorabilia, a transcript of an oral history interview and a number of NBC reports, including some by Hedges. Material pertaining to Broadcast Pioneers includes minutes, printed matter, issues of the group's in-house organ and material on its history project. Of special interest is Hedges's interview with John F. Royal and the inventories of the project's collection. Information on the NAB, of which Hedges was a founding member, includes a constitution and by-laws, a proposed code of fair competition, convention programs and a handbook. Photographs document a group of journalists, including Hedges, on Broadcasters' Mission to Europe, 1945.
Papers of an NBC news commentator and newspaper journalist, consisting chiefly of material for his program Three Star Extra which was sponsored by the Sun Oil Company. Includes microfilmed scripts largely dating from January, 1956-May 26, 1965 and some editorials. For the period prior to 1955 the collection includes only a few scattered scripts but over 100 sound recordings. Also includes a small quantity of documentation relating to his broadcasting career with ABC and WOL.
Contains correspondence, photographs, press clippings, programs and ephemera documenting the career of the singer/pianist Hildegarde Loretta Sell known professionally as "The Incomparable Hildegarde."
Repository/Collector:
Raynor Memorial Libraries, Department of Special Collections and University Archives