Contains correspondence, scrapbooks, discs, photographs, speeches, scripts, awards and magazine and newspapers articles documenting Kirby's early career in broadcasting, including his work with WSM, as Director of Public Relations for the National Association of Broadcasters, as a founder of Broadcast Music, Inc. and as the chief of the radio branch of the War Department during World War II. Also includes material relating to The Army Hour. Ten related transcription discs from the collection of Major Glenn Miller and the American Band of the Allied Expeditionary Forces Program have been transferred to the Library's audio collection.
Dates:
1923-1983, bulk 1938-1959
Repository/Collector:
Special Collections in Mass Media & Culture, University of Maryland