Includes records relating to the establishment of the Lowell Institute Cooperative Broadcasting Council, 1946, which pioneered the use of radio as a vehicle for adult education programming.
Contains correspondence, speeches, articles, letters to the editor, reports, bulletins, notes, radio broadcasts and clippings documenting Putnam's work in maternal and infant health care and conservative politics.
Consists primarily of brochures and clippings from Miss Farmer's School of Cookery and biographies of Alice Bradley by her sister, Marion Bradley Atwood.
Consists of photographs, correspondence, published articles by and about Bromley and background material for her articles and book. Check preliminary finding aid for any material related to her unidentified radio program, 1952-1958.
Contains diaries, manuscripts, radio talks, speeches, personal and professional correspondence, photos and clippings. See online finding aid for list of radio talks.
Albert was an international fashion consultant, educator, lecturer, columnist, producer of fashion shows and radio/TV personality. Check unpublished finding aid for possible radio related papers.
Contains original musical scores and arrangements, photographs of Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra at all stages of the band's career, newspaper clippings and scrapbooks documenting the band's performance history and reception by both critics and the public over time. Also includes audio tapes of CLO recordings and interviews with band associates, phonograph records of original CLO recordings and other recordings of big band music.
Contains correspondence, speeches, program scripts, publicity photos and articles primarily concerning her career which included narrating The Woman Reporter and Woman's Page of the Air. Cumming played the role of Betty Crocker, an advertising agent for General Mills, on radio and television. Papers concerning her Betty Crocker role consist mainly of promotional literature and speeches.
Contains scrapbooks concerning her work with the WAVES, correspondence, press books, clips, photographs, etc. Barton was program director of the New York State Radio-TV Bureau.
Includes scripts of Women in the Making of America, 1939-1940, broadcast in cooperation with the WPA's Federal Theatre Radio Division, and Gallery of Women, a series produced by the University of Michigan, 1954, and broadcast in cooperation with the U.S. Office of Education. Also includes program outlines, posters and clippings.
Includes clippings about Jane Ashman's two radio programs, Americans All, Immigrants All, 1938, and Women in the Making of America, 1939, for which historian Mary Beard was a consultant.
Sound recording of three radio speeches broadcast on February 22, 1942 by Anderson for the working women of the Allied nations. Anderson describes the changing nature of employment for women before and during World War II, the history of sex discrimination in employment and forecasts how the employment climate for women may change after the war.
Consists of brochures advertising Phil Spitalny's All Girl Orchestra, the General Electric Hour of Charm, 1943, and two photographs of an unidentified women's band, n.d.
Contains biographical material, speeches and pamphlets relating to women in business. Husted was an advertising executive, home economist and, as director of the Home Service Department of General Mills, she planned and implemented the Betty Crocker program, 1926-1946.
Contains papers relating to the creation, broadcast and promotion of WGBH's programming and the development of related print and multimedia materials. The records also relate to the development of the LICBC and WGBH-FM/WGBH-TV and to some extent the development of public radio.
Repository/Collector:
Media Archives & Preservation Center, WGBH Education Foundation
Includes letters, mostly written by Benny to Frank Remley, the left-handed guitarist who played on the Benny radio shows. The letters are almost all comments on "Ripley's Believe It or Not!" articles.
Correspondence, published and unpublished writings, subject files, financial and legal records, biographical material, memorabilia and Brewster and Murrow family papers and photographs chiefly dating from 1929-1965. Of particular note are letters written by and to the Murrows while they were in Great Britain during World War II which reflect his work as director of European broadcasting for CBS, Inc. and her duties as executive director of the London Committee of Bundles for Britain, Inc.
Contains correspondence, manuscripts, including radio scripts, photographs, printed material, film reels, audio tapes, scrapbooks, professional material, printed material, financial material and research papers relating to his career as a producer.
Contains 8,000-9,000 audio recordings dating from the 1940s and print material including scrapbooks and biographical information about the artists. Collection is searchable via an in-house catalog. Note: Additional BSO recordings may be in the NBC Collection in the Library of Congress.
Includes audio tapes of programs on religion with Dr. Harold Scott from the Unitarian Society of Salt Lake City, UT. For more information see unpublished finding aid.
Includes programs, playbills and clippings for virtually every theater in Boston operating from the 1920s-1950s. May contain information about actors who also appeared on radio.
Contains production materials, poems, scrapbooks, 1936-1939, photographs with Hollywood celebrities, scripts by Rathbone and his wife, Ouida Bergere Rathbone, and correspondence.
Contains numerous manuscripts, letters and other documents regarding the history of radio and broadcasting. Includes many items related to Lewis's work for the Office of Facts and Figures and the Office of War Information during World War II.
Cornment Books reflect student life and student culture, including politics, musical trends and campus controversies. WHRB is a student run radio station that previously operated under the call letters WHCN and WHRV.
Consists of song lyrics, song and dance band music, radio scripts, newspaper clippings and scrapbooks covering Rines's career as composer, arranger, radio music director and producer. Also includes correspondence and photographs.
Contains manuscripts of articles, books, poems, screenplays, speeches, movie scripts, printed articles by and about Fairbanks, scrapbooks, film reels, memorabilia and correspondence.
Contains photographs from various film and stage performances, playbills and scrapbooks documenting Truex's career and personal and professional correspondence.
Contains several scripts by Liss including The Human Adventure, We Care, Warriors of Peace, The Eternal Light, Report to the Nation, Charlie Wild Private Detective, You Are There, The Story of Our Time and others. Also includes several letters, research files and other documents regarding his work in radio.
Contains correspondence, scrapbooks, 1930-1960, photographs of Smith and other celebrities, home movies, film reels of television appearances and sound recordings.
Contains manuscripts, including scripts by Connelly and by others which he produced, correspondence, financial material, printed material, scrapbooks, photographs, subject files, notebooks and memorabilia.
Contains several manuscripts of Corwin's radio work, including the scripts for "The Plot to Overthrow Christmas" and "They Fly Through the Air With the Greatest of Ease." Also includes several recordings of original broadcasts and letters from several notable figures in broadcasting.
Contains scripts for several series, including City Hospital, 1951-1958, Inner Sanctum, 1941-1952, Mystery in the Air, 1945, NBC Radio Theatre, Adventures of the Thin Man, Theatre Five, The Man From G-2, Adventure Theatre and other shows. Also includes a draft of a confidential report Newman wrote in 1943, probably for the government, and other documents regarding radio broadcasting.
Contains numerous manuscripts, letters and other documents about the history of radio broadcasting. Includes scripts and recordings of You Are There, The Eagle's Brood, 1947, and many other programs. Also includes correspondence from Edward R. Murrow and other notable broadcasting figures.
Includes unidentified material relating to CBS, 1947, to the debates Wise had with Clarence Darrow, 1927-1930, Father Lonegran, 1927-1928, Betrand Russell, 1931-1932 and Ben Lindsey, 1927-1928. Also material relating to Town Meeting of the Air, 1945, and Martha Deane, 1947-1948.
Repository/Collector:
University Archives & Special Collections, Brandeis University
Audiorecordings (78rpm and cassettes) of some Voice of Firestone specials and kinescopes of the 1949-1964 programs (with a gap from 1961-1964) which were simulcast on radio and television. Also includes some transcription discs of speeches of Harvey Firestone from late 1920s-1930s talking about political issues.
Contains sound recordings, some from broadcasts during his tenure as conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, 1924-1949. Also contains recordings of programs about Koussevitzky broadcast in the 1960s and 1970s.
Contains Victor's own music as well as arrangements that he made and some scripts. Young had his own radio show, ca. 1934, and was either the conductor and/or the composer-arranger for several radio programs, including the Carnation Contented Hour, May, 1950-December, 1951, Texaco Star Theatre, Westinghouse radio programs, ca. 1938-1945, and the Woolworth Radio Hour.
Comprises some 4,000 arrangements of orchestral jazz dating from the 1920s to the 1940s as well as contemporary recordings, clippings files and small collections of photographs and artifacts. See extensive online finding aid for details.
Repository/Collector:
Archives and Special Collections, Williams College
Contains a variety of material relating to Early's work, including reviews, clippings, transcripts of radio broadcasts, photographs and copies of articles and manuscripts.
Includes papers, photographs and audio tapes of the Lowell Institute Cooperative Broadcasting Council & WGBH radio programming and related materials, 1951-present.
Repository/Collector:
Media Archives & Preservation Center, WGBH Education Foundation
Contains papers collected from his various activities, including sermons from Dr. William L. Stidger's program, Getting the Most Out of Life, sponsored by Fleischmann's Yeast, 1937-1939, annotated with hymns and fan letters. Houghton also provided the music for the program.