An oral history of Yiddish radio, 1930s-1950s, produced by the NPR program All Things Considered and available on 2 CDs. Also available in many libraries or can be purchased through the web site.
Contains personal correspondence and related documents of members of the E. H. Butler family, owners of the "Buffalo Evening News" and founders of WBEN. Includes some items related to WBEN which was owned by the Butler family through the late 1970s.
Repository/Collector:
Archives and Special Collections, Buffalo State College
Contains personal and business correspondence, office memos, photographs, news clips, a few radio scripts and other miscellaneous items from WBEN, Buffalo, NY and WBEN-TV from the late 1920s to late 1970s. Most of the radio scripts are incomplete. Also includes miscellaneous information about the "Buffalo Evening News" which owned the station. Haeffner worked with E. H. Butler Jr., owner of the newspaper, in the establishment of the radio station. A detailed inventory of the collection is available.
Repository/Collector:
Archives and Special Collections, Buffalo State College
Contains transcripts of the weekly news/news analysis program entitled either The Week in Review or The News in Review broadcast January, 1935-May, 1940 on either WBEN or WEBR, Buffalo, NY. The program was hosted by Zavitz who also wrote the scripts. Also includes miscellaneous correspondence and newspaper clippings, 1933-1949.
Repository/Collector:
Archives and Special Collections, Buffalo State College
Contains scripts, correspondence and other papers relating to her writings for radio and television. Includes scripts for My True Story, 1948-1960 and Whispering Streets, 1953-1960. Also includes outlines and storylines for future scripts, possible plots and audition scripts that Sangster wrote and correspondence she received from ABC and NBC. Little personal information is included in collection.
Contains radio and television scripts, 1940s-1950s, some published, some typescript versions written by Wishengrad for The Eternal Light. Also includes a few scripts for Have Seen the Light, WQXR, 1947, Birthday of the World, 1950s, for ABC, and the NBC Inter-American University of the Air, 1944.
Contains books, articles, scripts, including radio scripts, monologues and jokes written by Levenson. Also includes material written about him, as well as phonograph recordings, audio tapes, films, correspondence and memorabilia.
Contains correspondence, scripts, manuscripts and reports regarding his activities in the American radio and film industries. Included are papers regarding projects about various television and radio networks and private ventures. Also includes material regarding the Center for Mass Communications of Columbia University in which Bamouw figured prominently and files for the books he has written dealing with radio history. The online catalog listing for the Papers includes the names of more than a dozen radio related people referenced in the collection. The Radio Pioneers Oral History project also contains a transcript of a Barnouw interview.
Repository/Collector:
Rare Book and Manuscript Collections, Butler Library
Consists of correspondence, manuscripts, typescripts, notes, photographs and printed materials relating to his research, writing and teaching. Also includes correspondence concerning his syndicated radio talks.
Repository/Collector:
Rare Book and Manuscript Collections, Butler Library
Includes playscripts, correspondence about his scripts, poems, notebooks and other manuscripts, including drafts, typescripts, notes, photographs, mimeographed scripts and printed materials relating to Cooper's plays, radio and television scripts, short stories and novels.
Repository/Collector:
Rare Book and Manuscript Collections, Butler Library
Correspondence, manuscripts, drafts, notes, reports, legal briefs and other documents, books, clippings and other printed materials dealing with Fly's professional activities and relationships in all phases of his career. Fly was chairman of the FCC, 1939-1944, and a frequent lecturer about radio, television and freedom of speech.
Repository/Collector:
Rare Book and Manuscript Collections, Butler Library
Contains correspondence and manuscripts, including drafts, typescripts, notes, photographs, mimeographed scripts and printed materials relating to Hall's plays, radio and television scripts, short stories and novels.
Repository/Collector:
Rare Book and Manuscript Collections, Butler Library
Letters about the formation of the Committee on Award of the Marconi Memorial Medal. The medal was to have been awarded annually for contributions to radio and David Sarnoff had been chosen as the first recipient but the Committee was dissolved as a result of a disagreement with the policies of the Italian government and the medal was never awarded.
Repository/Collector:
Rare Book and Manuscript Collections, Butler Library
Contains correspondence and manuscripts consisting of letters, poems, short stories, novels, plays, broadcast transcripts for Invitation to Learning and other papers.
Repository/Collector:
Rare Book and Manuscript Collections, Butler Library
Includes 501 scripts for the Claudia series plus sound recordings of some of the programs, scrapbook clippings and an audio tape interview of Franken (with typescript transcripts) conducted by her grandnephew, David Korr, in October, 1977.
Repository/Collector:
Rare Book and Manuscript Collections, Butler Library
Consists chiefly of correspondence and production files relating to the creation, production and performance of their works for stage, screen, radio and television.
Repository/Collector:
Rare Book and Manuscript Collections, Butler Library
An assorted collection of sound recordings of programs dealing with Jewish culture and history, including entertainment, news, religious programs and public affairs. Recordings can be listened to in the Museum.
The Museum maintains a large audio collection of radio programs that can be listened to on site. Program holdings cannot be searched online but the research staff will respond to individual queries. The New York City location maintains the main archive. If a program is not available in the Beverly Hills site, a researcher can request that it be dubbed in New York and sent to California. See the Addendum for an additional collection dealing with broadcasts of boxing matches.