Recordings from Corwin’s CBS radio series (One World Flight, This is Radio, Radio is Here to Stay, Columbia Presents Corwin, An American in England, etc.). Broadcast from the mid-1930s to the mid-1950s.
Content types:
Sounds and Other
Formats:
Disc (Commercial, Homemade, Transcription) and Reel-to-reel
Extent:
374 16-inch glass and aluminum based lacquer discs and a few reel tapes
WMBQ, Brooklyn NY -- Several hours of programming from October 1936 in English, Yiddish, German, Lithuanian, Polish, and Hungarian. WCNW, Brooklyn NY -- Several hours of programming from November 1936-January 1937, featuring local programming in English, Yiddish, German, Hungarian, and Polish. WSB, Atlanta, GA -- several hours of local coverage of the 1947 "Three Governors Crisis." WNAC, Boston -- one Yankee Network News broadcast from February 1935. WHDH, Boston -- one 1935 talk by local American Legion leader, several hours of "Matinee with Bob and Ray" broadcasts from 1948-51, WIND, Chicago -- complete aircheck of April 1955 Chicago Cubs baseball broadcast, only known example featuring sportscaster Bert Wilson; WAVE, Louisville KY -- four fifteen minute musical programs from April 1937 featuring local talent; KPRC, Houston -- several hours of local programming including the "Crustene Ranch Party," locally-broadcast live country music feature heard over Texas Quality Network.
Content types:
Sounds and Other
Formats:
Disc (Commercial, Homemade, Transcription), Reel-to-reel, and Audiocassette
Extent:
Approximately fifty hours of local radio material as part of a much larger collection of general radio programming.
Interviews: Mrs. Carew, mother of six sons in the armed forces. Jack [John P.H. Jr.] Chandler, publisher of the Kearsarge Independent newspaper. Mrs. Frances W. Tulley, Home Fires Editor, 2 sons in the war. Sergeant ??(skips a little here) -- 2 yr veteran was at Normandy. Mrs. Cloues, whose son (Edward?) died at Pearl Harbor. Dick Townsend, owner of Kearsarge Inn. Mrs. Peggy Thomas and 2 1/2 yr old daughter Sally. Mr. Norm Hatfield, Principal of the Simonds High School. Herman Dow, 17 yr old worker at Wheeler's Drug Store. Anne White, Student. Pastor Ellis Eaton. Special Events staff of WMUR Radio, Al Mathie, announcer.
6) New Hampshire War Finance Committee interview with Eleanor Roosevelt [sound recording]. 5) War bond salute to labor [sound recording] : from Berlin, N.H. for WKNE. 4) The essence of May [videorecording DVD] / May Gruber ; interviewed by Laura Knoy, New Hampshire Public Radio. 3) New Hampshire pledges for victory [sound recording] : foreign speech program. 1) A Tribute to New Hampshire : General Motors presents "The parade of the states" : Monday, August 29, 1932, 8:30 to 9:00 P.M., E.S.T. : WEAF and NBC coast to coast Red network. 2) New Hampshire War Finance Committee [sound recording]. [Interview with] Eleanor Roosevelt; program from WKNE.
Part of a series, "Red Man in Michigan," broadcast on WUOM (Ann Arbor, MI). Features "extensive clips from field recordings made by Gertrude Prokosch Kurath."
Recordings from various talk, interview, and telephone shows on NBC radio that Nebel conducted over his career, spanning the years 1964-69 (including Addio, Long John Nebel Phone Show, Long John Nebel All Night Show, Long John Nebel Early Hour, Straight Line, etc.). Nebel's programs dealt with a variety of topics, including religion, politics, medicine, and the theater. Many of the shows were concerned with psychic phenomena and the occult, with representative topics such as ESP, UFOs, hypnotism and spiritual healing.