Marc Steiner collection, Collection 110: The Marc Steiner Collection consists of recordings of the Marc Steiner show from its original air date of March 31, 1993 through 2008. The Marc Steiner show is a public interest radio show originating in Baltimore and covering subjects on the local, state, national, and international level. Topics have included arts and culture, education, homelessness and international politics. The show has aired on WJHU; WYPR; and its current home WEAA. Extent: Betatapes (100), Cassette tapes (95), VHS (5), DAT (2690), CD (640); all formats have been arranged chronologically, rehoused, and are in good condition. Other than a complete show listing (1993-2012), no associated papers accompany the recordings.
Content types:
Sounds and Other
Extent:
Betatapes (100), Cassette tapes (95), VHS (5), DAT (2690), CD (640)
A sound recording of a series created by Robert Lewis Shayon based on significant accomplishments in education during a period of concern for the quality of science education in the United States. This segment in the series was an in depth report on the accomplishments of the Frontiers of Science Foundation of Oklahoma.
The bulk of collection is comprised of Bums's plays, novels, short stories and poetry and includes radio scripts for Voice of Chiropractic, The Chiropractor's Broadcast and The Keep Smiling Program, 1937-1938.
Repository/Collector:
Maryland Historical Society Library, Manuscripts Department
Briefly describes both government and privately produced sound recordings from a variety of sources, including radio broadcasts, speeches, interviews, documentaries, oral history and public information programs. The earliest recording is from 1896 but most recordings fall in the 1935-present time span. Titles are described numerically and by personal name reference.
Repository/Collector:
Motion Picture, Sound, and Video Unit (Special Media Archives Services Division)
Describes 5,000 recordings, primarily of CBS-KIRO broadcasts, 1931-1977, which were originally maintained at the University of Washington. The collection consists of news and public affairs programs, actualities, speeches, interviews, wartime dramas and daily World War II news programs. Two finding aids are available: History in Sound: A Descriptive Listing of KIRO-CBS Collection of Broadcasts of the World War II Years (1963) and History in Sound: Part II (1972). Catalog cards contain brief content summaries and are more detailed than the published guides. Most entries are available on reel-to-reel reference tapes.
Repository/Collector:
Motion Picture, Sound, and Video Unit (Special Media Archives Services Division)
Describes 27,000 broadcasts of news and public affairs programs, 1943-1971. The catalog is arranged chronologically by date of broadcast and thereunder by program series, title, keyword or personal name reference.
Repository/Collector:
Motion Picture, Sound, and Video Unit (Special Media Archives Services Division)
Contains about 3,000 books. Although the emphasis of the collection is on technical material relating to radio and television hardware, there is a considerable amount of material on radio and television programs and performers. Also houses a collection of audio cassettes of radio progrmas. Holdings are listed online.
The National Federation of Community Broadcasters (NFCB) is a national membership organization of community-oriented, non-commercial radio stations, producers, and broadcasters. NFCB was formed by a group of community broadcasters who envisioned the creation of a program-sharing cooperative for community radio stations, which would come to be known as the NFCB Program Service. NFCB's early mission also included the creation of training manuals for radio station staff, assisting stations in obtaining Federal Communication Commission licenses, and promoting the participation of minorities and women in public broadcasting. The collection documents NFCB's administrative activities, its work with member stations and community groups, training and licensing work, as well as its advocacy work and radio awards programs. A significant portion of the collection comprises the audio reels and paper records of the NFCB Program Service, which promoted the sharing of content among community radio stations by collecting and distributing radio programs created by independent producers from across the United States, many of which have been digitized.
Repository/Collector:
Special Collections in Mass Media & Culture, University of Maryland
Edwin B. Dooley (1930-1998) was an engineer at both WLW radio and WLWT television, and remained active in radio, music and theatre after his retirement. A staunch advocate of radio history, Dooley worked to preserve "The Nation's Station" legacy by salvaging materials discarded by station management, resulting in a vast collection of over 5,000 discs spanning several decades of radio broadcasting.
Repository/Collector:
Special Collections in Mass Media & Culture, University of Maryland
This collection consists of administrative records of the CPB, documenting its efforts to expand public broadcasting in the United States, its grant programs for local radio and television broadcasting stations, and its partnerships with external foundations. The collection also includes audiovisual recordings of programs funded through CPB grants in audio cassette, audio CD, VHS, and U-Matic formats. Documents include memoranda, correspondence, meeting minutes, publicity materials, grant applications, and Congressional testimony.
Repository/Collector:
Special Collections in Mass Media & Culture, University of Maryland
Consists of over 2,000 discs containing radio commercials for products representing the entire scope of American industry in the 1950s and 1960s and illustrating the work of dozens of advertising agencies. The discs are sorted into product categories ranging from Airlines to Wine. Items of special interest include commercials written by and featuring Stan Freberg and his troupe and some Piel's Beer advertisements with comedians Bob and Ray.
Repository/Collector:
Special Collections in Mass Media & Culture, University of Maryland
Susan Stamberg is best known as a co-host on National Public Radio's All Things Considered from 1971 to 1986 and as the host of Weekend Edition Sunday from its inception in 1987 to 1989. In her later career in the 1990s, she worked as a cultural reporter on various NPR newsmagazines. The bulk of the collection documents Stamberg's career at WAMU in Washington, DC and her career at NPR from 1971 until 2011. It also contains materials from numerous other projects, including her books Every Night at Five, The Wedding Cake in the Middle of the Road, Talk, and her other writings
Repository/Collector:
Special Collections in Mass Media & Culture, University of Maryland
This collection includes print materials related to the development and organization of NPR, as well as the program archive consisting of over 100,000 audio tapes beginning with the first broadcast in 1971.
Repository/Collector:
Special Collections in Mass Media & Culture, University of Maryland
The Samuel C. O. Holt papers include materials from 1951 through 1995. The bulk of the collection dates from 1967 to 1983 and relates to Holt's work as project director of the Public Radio Study from 1967 to 1969, as PBS's Coordinator of Programming from 1970 to 1973 and as NPR's Senior Vice President for Programming from 1977 to 1983. Additionally, there is a significant amount of material from Holt's consulting activities. Most of the collection consists of reports and proposals concerning public broadcasting programming, funding, and research. Also present are intermittent chronological files of business correspondence, memoranda, minutes, maps, and video and audio cassette tapes.
Repository/Collector:
Special Collections in Mass Media & Culture, University of Maryland
Westinghouse Broadcasting Company was the broadcasting division of Westinghouse Electric Corporation, which owned several TV and radio stations in the U.S. They began their own radio news bureau, based in Washington, D.C., in 1957. The 2,300 audiotapes in the Group W collection provide a comprehensive look at worldwide events delivered over the radio from 1957-1982. The content of the tapes consists of national news feeds, programs and interviews produced by and for Group W Communications stations from their Washington bureau. It also includes voice cuts and speeches from politicians and activists during events of national and international significance spanning the 1960s and 1970s – the Civil Rights movement, the Cold War and the Space Race, the Vietnam War, the anti-war movement, political figures and events, (including the Watergate crisis).
Repository/Collector:
Special Collections in Mass Media & Culture, University of Maryland
Broadcasting & Cable is a trade magazine focusing on radio broadcasting and cable television. Martin Codel, Sol Taishoff, Harry Shaw founded the magazine in 1931, and the first issue was published in October 15, 1931, though the magazine continues to publish issues weekly. This collection was largely accumulated by former Broadcasting & Cable editor Don West and consists of over 30,000 files relating the magazine's subjects. The subject files are largely comprised of photographs, however several files contain accompanying press releases and newspaper clippsings as well.
Repository/Collector:
Special Collections in Mass Media & Culture, University of Maryland
The Housewives' Protective League was a daily CBS radio program that aired from 1948 to 1962, produced by such esteemed broadcasters as Allen Gray. During its run, the show explored a variety of issues from childrearing and health to more irreverent topics. Housewives was also the "Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval" of the airwaves, regularly pre-testing all its sponsor's products. The majority of the collection are scripts for daily broadcasts of the radio show The Housewives' Protective League and its predecessor Coffee Break.
Repository/Collector:
Special Collections in Mass Media & Culture, University of Maryland
American Women in Radio and Television (AWRT), now called the Alliance of Women in Media (AWM), is the preeminent organization for women in the broadcasting industries. AWRT was founded in 1951 in response to the National Association of Broadcasters' decision to dissolve its women's division. Today, AWRT has over 2,000 members and is a powerful advocate, educator and supporter of women in communications. The AWRT records, which span the years 1947 to 1999, mainly document the organization's yearly national conventions.
Repository/Collector:
Special Collections in Mass Media & Culture, University of Maryland
Papers document the work Dorrance did for FM Broadcasters, Inc. (FMBI), the Office of War Information (OWI) and the Broadcasters' Victory Council (BVC). Collection includes FMBI newsletters, BVC newsletters, Radio Background Material, an Information Guide published by the OWI and various speeches and memos written by Dorrance. The bulk of the material relates to the rise of FM broadcasting and the role broadcasters and radio could play in the war effort.
Repository/Collector:
Special Collections in Mass Media & Culture, University of Maryland
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.
Repository/Collector:
Special Collections in Mass Media & Culture, University of Maryland
Edythe Meserand (1908-1997) began her broadcasting career in 1926 at NBC, but had her greatest influence at WOR where she produced the first true radio documentary and began the station's long-running Children's Christmas Fund Drive. She was a founding member of American Women in Radio and Television (AWRT) and served as the organization's first president. The majority of the collection pertains to various radio and television programs she produced and to the early years of American Women in Radio and Television (AWRT).
Repository/Collector:
Special Collections in Mass Media & Culture, University of Maryland
Helen Sioussat (1902-1995) was Director of the Talks and Public Affairs Department at CBS from 1937 to 1958, where she oversaw as many as 300 broadcasts a year addressing such topics as government, labor, education, religion, civil rights and international affairs. She would go on to create the television program, Table Talk.
Repository/Collector:
Special Collections in Mass Media & Culture, University of Maryland
Irene Beasley (1904-1980) was a composer, singer, and radio personality nicknamed "the long, tall gal from Dixie." Beasley is best known for Grand Slam, her long-running musical quiz show which was broadcast from 1943 to 1953. Grand Slam was conceived, written, designed, produced, and emceed by Beasley. The collection documents Irene Beasley's broadcasting and singing career.
Repository/Collector:
Special Collections in Mass Media & Culture, University of Maryland
Martha Brooks (1908-1999) was a legendary New York broadcaster whose "Martha Brooks Show" aired over WGY-Radio Schenectady from 1937 to 1971. Originally an actress, Ms. Brooks (nee Irma Lemke) began with radio station WGY in 1931. Later, Ms. Brooks became a TV pioneer, on WGY's sister station, WRGB-TV by writing, producing and often starring in live, on-air productions. The Martha Brooks papers span the years 1924 to 1991 and consist mainly of photos from many of the early TV productions on which Ms. Brooks starred (and sometimes wrote).
Repository/Collector:
Special Collections in Mass Media & Culture, University of Maryland
Mona Kent (1909-1990) was a script writer for both radio and television, having written hundreds of scripts for the radio serial "Portia Faces Life" and contributing scripts to TV's "Captain Video" series. The collection primarily documents Kent's work on the radio soap "Portia Faces Life" from 1940 to 1956.
Repository/Collector:
Special Collections in Mass Media & Culture, University of Maryland
Contains NAB publications and memos, meeting minutes, photographs, convention programs and public service campaigns for use by member stations to promote radio and television. The association's library of broadcast-related books is now part of the LAB library.
Repository/Collector:
Special Collections in Mass Media & Culture, University of Maryland
Papers documenting the history and prograniming of KBPS, Portland, OR. Includes correspondence, reports, financial documents, scripts, speeches and sound recordings.
Repository/Collector:
National Public Broadcasting Archives, University of Maryland
Contains documents relating to Novik's career in public broadcasting, including correspondence, reports, hearings, clippings, conference materials, press releases and other papers. Novik was associated with WNYC, New York, and was executive secretary of the National Association of Educational Broadcasters. Papers also include correspondence with the FCC and the Institute for Education by Radio-Television.
Repository/Collector:
National Public Broadcasting Archives, University of Maryland
Transcription discs of local radio broadcasts, 1946-1964, primarily of contemporary classical music performances and including some broadcasts of premieres (world premieres, first radio broadcasts, and first Washington performances), recorded by Rothschild, and some live recordings from Chamber Music Society of Baltimore concerts. Radio stations recorded include WBAL, WJZ, WCAO, WFBR, WITH, and WRC. The collection also includes several popular and jazz recordings, commercial releases, and some private home performances. Recordings of Chamber Music Society of Baltimore concerts and local radio broadcasts on reel-to-reel tapes, 1955-1991. The collection includes several world premieres from CMS concerts and other notable performances in broadcasts (first Washington performances, etc.). Radio recordings are concentrated in earlier recordings while CMS performances are concentrated later. The collection also includes a large subsection of recordings from Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz.
Content types:
Notated music, Performed music, Still image, and Text
Formats:
Lacquer disc, Analog audiocassette, Polyester open reel tape, and Acetate open reel tape