Consists primarily of material on various personalities utilized by Skolsky in the preparation of his tintypes. Additional items include miscellaneous television and radio scripts.
Repository/Collector:
Margaret Herrick Library, Dept. of Special Collections
Contains finished scripts, unproduced manuscripts, legal documents, correspondence and research materials, including undated radio scripts for The Treasury Star Parade, Camel Caravan, and The Camel Hour.
A privately held collection of 90,000 hours of programs, mostly on reel-to-reel tape. Although the collection includes all programming genres, it is particularly strong in music, especially jazz, blues, county and western, including Renfro Valley Barn Dance, Midwestern Hayride, Louisiana Hayride, Hollywood Barn Dance and Town Hall Party.
Approximately 4,000 recordings, including interviews, concerts, other music programs and poetry originally aired 1949-1992. Also includes recordings of 20th century music festivals and concerts. For specific programs, check with in-house database.
Collection includes sound recordings of network comedy, mystery, music, Armed Forces Radio Service, music libraries, news programs, including World War II news broadcasts, CBS and standard library of recorded sound effects as well as many manual sound effects, oral histories, scripts, including Fibber McGee and Molly and The Dennis Day Show, photographs, publications, including trade magazines, equipment and other radio memorabilia. In the future, the PPB archives will be combined with the American Radio Archives at the Thousand Oaks Library in Thousand Oaks, CA. The Pacific Pioneers is a membership organization comprised of men and women with at least 20 years professional employment in the field of radio and television broadcasting or allied fields.
As of 2005, the recently acquired collection has not been processed. However, it does contain a large volume of print material, including photographs, relating to the Chevron Standard Hour which Michaelis produced. Also includes some transcription discs for the NBC University Theater.
Transcription discs of the program. As of 2005, about 300+ programs have been transferred and plans are to transfer the remaining discs. Also see Adrian Michaelis Collection above.