The bulk of the items in the collection pertain to Kuralt's career between the 1970s and the 1990s and include scripts, publicity materials and a small amount of fan mail.
Repository/Collector:
Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
A portion of the papers relate to Oettinger's career with the Tobacco Radio Network and WNAO, Raleigh, NC and contain articles, advertisements and scripts for radio programs, including The Citizen's Forum of the Air.
Repository/Collector:
Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Includes sound recordings and related materials chiefly containing radio programs, 1958-1961 and n.d., hosted by Brooks and sponsored by the Hayward, CA chapter of the NAACP. The programs are mostly concerned with the status of African Americans in the mid-20th century.
Repository/Collector:
Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Contains correspondence, photographs, clippings, legal documents, sheet music and recorded music documenting Kemp's career as a band leader. Also includes sheet music, records and audio cassettes although none of the cassettes appears to be of radio programs. Check online finding aid to determine if any of the print materials relate to Kemp's performances on the Penzoil Parade and Chesterfield programs.
Repository/Collector:
Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Emerson was the inventor of Bromo-Seltzer. The papers contain strategies for marketing the product, including sponsoring the Effervescent Hour that aired on numerous radio stations in the 1930s.
Repository/Collector:
Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Includes papers relating to WCSC-AM and WXTC-FM, Charleston, SC owned by the Rivers family which owned WCSC, Inc. Collection also includes some unidentified sound recordings that were received by WCSC as promotional items. Access to these discs may be restricted. See also the separate listing for the John Rivers Communications Museum in Charleston, SC.
Repository/Collector:
Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Primarily documents Gault's work in theater, especially with the Carolina Playmakers in the late 1940s and early 1950s but also includes "An Unknown Land," a radio play by Gault.
Repository/Collector:
Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Includes a few radio plays by Dorothy Markey, a writer, union activist and communist who wrote under the name Myra Page in the 1930s-1950s. The radio plays are included in the "Short Writings" folder and are identified by name.
Repository/Collector:
Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Contains subject files, appointment books, assignment notebooks, scripts, official press packs and other papers documenting more than 20 years of Benton's career at various divisions of CBS News.
Repository/Collector:
Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Contains radio plays of the Pulitzer prize winning playwright. Collection includes a detailed list of the titles and dates but no indication as to the radio program/s that broadcast the plays.
Repository/Collector:
Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The "Radio Program Files, 1954-1974" portion of the collection includes sound recordings and partial transcripts of Ervin's weekly program and other papers relating to his involvement with specific stations.
Repository/Collector:
Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Includes correspondence and other files of WEED, Rocky Mount, NC and scattered files of WBAR, Bartow, FL, both of which were owned by William Avera Wynne. The WEED files include program logs, channel surveys and communications with the FCC and both the NBC and ABC radio network offices.
Repository/Collector:
Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Contain business papers relating to the family's many business ventures, including a department store in Goldsboro, NC and promotional materials for the store, including scripts for a 10-episode program Romance of Goldsboro.
Repository/Collector:
Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Contains correspondence and other files, including considerable material pertaining to radio productions at the university during the 1950s and a large number of scripts.
Repository/Collector:
University Archives, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Seventeen volumes of scripts, some written by Roy LaPlante, and aired on KYW, Philadelphia. Show was a weekly fifteen minute program narrated by school children. Collection also includes sound recordings of the same program, mostly 1944-1945 and one from 1948, and recordings of The World of Yesterday, The Crow and the Daylight, The Mouse Merchant and The Legend of the Willow Plate.
Repository/Collector:
Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Education Department, University of Pennsylvania
Primarily Dunning's personal collection of 94 scripts for plays, radio, TV and film and a small amount of related papers, clippings and correspondence. Catalog listing does not include any details about the radio scripts.
Consists of theater, film, book and radio reviews clipped from newspapers and magazines, correspondence, theater and ballet programs and radio and film scripts.
Includes 86 scripts Caswell wrote for the Rochester War Council Speakers' Bureau, 1942-1943 and 28 scripts for The Romance of Old Indian Days broadcast on WHAM, 1937-1938, sponsored by the Rochester Museum of Arts and Sciences.
Consists mostly of post-1950 materials related to Williams's personal life and career as a writer, editor and journalist although there are some earlier papers, including correspondence, photographs and some material from 1959 dealing with WOY.
Consists of two volumes of typescripts of Dr. Hoffmeister's speeches, convocation addresses, commencement addresses, radio talks, writings, etc., 1934-1960.
Correspondence, financial material, etc. of the Rochester Broadcasting Corporation founded in 1944 by a group of Rochester businessmen to operate a radio station in the city. The corporation dissolved in 1947 when it was denied a permit to construct a radio station.
Scripts and correspondence relating to the 12 radio programs Dr. Arthur J. May of the University of Rochester History Department gave over WHAM in 1943. Note: Script for program #11 is missing.
Contains correspondence, publicity, etc. for a 39-week radio series which was prepared by Time Inc., sponsored by the University of Rochester and broadcast over WHAM.
Transcripts and other material related to the series of 17 radio discussion programs sponsored by the War Information Center of the University of Rochester in the fall of 1942 and broadcast over WHAM.
Collection focuses on two of Beacham's principal media projects, including six audio cassettes entitled "Theatre of the Imagination: The Radio Days of Orson Welles," co-produced by Beacham and the late Richard Wilson in 1988. The cassettes feature tales on tape from the radio career of the young Welles and document Beacham's efforts at restoring more than 160 hours of surviving Welles programming.
Repository/Collector:
Manuscripts Division, University of South Carolina
Contains scripts, correspondence and miscellaneous printed items covering Lang's career at WIS beginning in 1941. Lang wrote public service scripts during World War II, including those for the Victory Bond program which were broadcast coast-to-coast and Let's Go to Town which were sent to service men. Also contains material on WIS history, including a 340-page annotated typescript entitled "So Rich a Heritage: A History of WIS Radio and Television."
Repository/Collector:
Manuscripts Division, University of South Carolina
Includes scripts for theater, radio and television. To browse list of scripts, plays and other unpublished works included in this collection, see Dial's autobiography, "My Stream Without a Name."
Repository/Collector:
Manuscripts Division, University of South Carolina
Consists of 240 production stills from Burke's films, miscellaneous publicity and promotional photographs, 50 radio scripts, three scrapbooks of clippings and personal photographs.
Repository/Collector:
Cinema-Television Library, University of Southern California
Consists of papers related to Defore's work in film and television, transcription discs of late 1940s radio programs and other professional papers, clippings and personal items.
Repository/Collector:
Cinema-Television Library, University of Southern California
Consists of scripts, contracts, programs, correspondence, scrapbooks and clippings relating to Cooper's appearance on five radio programs, 1935-1954, films and plays.
Repository/Collector:
Cinema-Television Library, University of Southern California
Consists of screenplays in which either Jim or Henny Backus appeared, 1940-1967. Also includes scripts for The Jim Backus Show and recordings of Jubilee, 1940s.
Repository/Collector:
Cinema-Television Library, University of Southern California
Consists of transcription discs, tapes, scripts and files from several programs on which Anthony was featured, including the Goodwill Hour later renamed the John J. Anthony Hour.
Repository/Collector:
Cinema-Television Library, University of Southern California
Research archive gathered by Theodore S. Delay in support of his 1951 USC dissertation, "An Historical Study of the Armed Forces Radio Service to 1946." Consists largely of memoranda and reports of official U.S. Army origin and copies of AFRS "Playback Magazine." See online finding aid for detailed inventory. The period covered is 1944-1945 and the focus is on the Pacific theater of action.
Repository/Collector:
Archival Research Center: Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Southern California
Includes material on unidentified radio programs, business files, tax records, correspondence, clippings, literary journals, tape recorded interviews, readings and archives for his "Radio Free America" column in the "Los Angeles Free Press."
Repository/Collector:
Archival Research Center: Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Southern California
Bryson was a broadcaster with KTSM, El Paso, TX, 1936-1954, and later a TV news anchor. Collection includes radio scripts for several programs, including Fort Bliss Centennial, Pathfinders of Medicine, 25th Anniversary, Magoffin, Gifts of the Season, El Paso Pays Tribute, Master of Music, Over SW Trails, Voice of El Paso, Southern Union Gas Co. Industry at the Pass of the North, Men of Vision, Through the Years, Farm Reporter and other special programs.
Repository/Collector:
C.L. Sonnichsen Library Special Collections Department, University of Texas-El Paso
Personal and professional papers of a military historian and commentator, including transcripts of radio broadcasts, 1940-1942, some 1951 and others after 1965. Program dates are listed but not names of programs.
Repository/Collector:
C.L. Sonnichsen Library Special Collections Department, University of Texas-El Paso
Papers trace Fernandez's career from her early days in radio to her work in television and movie productions, through to her retirement in 1982 and subsequent activities. The collection consists of scrapbooks, photographs, honors and awards, the bulk of which are in the form of plaques.
Repository/Collector:
Library, Special Collections, University of Texas-San Antonio
Contains manuscripts, including some unidentified radio scripts, research notes and other materials documenting Texas history and folklore. The Woolfords promoted the Witte Museum in San Antonio through a radio variety show in the 1930s.
Repository/Collector:
Library, Special Collections, University of Texas-San Antonio
Contains correspondence and other files, including material relating to Hench's programs Words, Words, Words and What's the Good Word? Tapes of the programs are also available.
Repository/Collector:
Special Collections Department, Alderman Memorial Library, University of Virginia
A glossy print of a publicity photograph of the Carter sisters. Original photograph made by WRVA, Richmond, VA to advertise its Old Dominion Barn Dance program.
Repository/Collector:
Special Collections Department, Alderman Memorial Library, University of Virginia
Uncorrected final rehearsal script adapted for radio by Robert Anderson, produced by The Theatre Guild, Inc. and presented on The United States Steel Hour.
Repository/Collector:
Special Collections Department, Alderman Memorial Library, University of Virginia
Consists chiefly of manuscripts of her works, including poems, essays, articles, plays, speeches and lectures, reviews and an undated radio serial, The Dark Closet.
Repository/Collector:
Special Collections Department, Alderman Memorial Library, University of Virginia
Includes cassettes of Lankes narrating and commenting on a variety of topics, including jazz bands, vaudeville, other music groups and Fred Allen's Chase and Sanborn Program.
Repository/Collector:
Special Collections Department, Alderman Memorial Library, University of Virginia
Includes scripts of WCHV broadcasts, April 21-25, 1947, on the history of Albemarle and Charlottesville with tie-ins to post World War II local issues.
Repository/Collector:
Special Collections Department, Alderman Memorial Library, University of Virginia
Album contains copies of studio photographs of radio personalities who performed on the program broadcast on WRVA. Includes Mother Maybelle Carter and the Carter sisters.
Repository/Collector:
Special Collections Department, Alderman Memorial Library, University of Virginia
An audio collection of 81 discs that includes political addresses, the June 12, 1945 broadcast of American Forum of the Air, the May 17, 24 and June 21, 1945 broadcasts of Town Meeting of the Air, transcriptions of many AFRS programs and other programs. See catalog listing for more information.
Repository/Collector:
Special Collections Department, Alderman Memorial Library, University of Virginia
Scripts for Pursued, Key Largo, Fighter Squadron, and Greatest Story Ever Told. Note: Catalog listing does not identify which scripts are for movies and which for radio.
Repository/Collector:
Special Collections Department, Alderman Memorial Library, University of Virginia
Papers of a prominent Milwaukee Polish announcer for WISN and WRJN and host of The Kuryer Polski Polish Hour. Includes scripts describing his visits to Poland, holiday broadcasts and to commemorate the deaths of Franklin D. Roosevelt and John F. and Robert Kennedy. Also includes correspondence, photographs and biographical information and background information on WRJN.
Repository/Collector:
Golda Meir Library, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Papers of a Milwaukee pioneer in the field of broadcast journalism, including material relating to WTMJ and national and state organizations such as the National Association of Radio News Directors and the Radio Television News Directors Association.
Repository/Collector:
Golda Meir Library, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Papers of a journalist, actor, radio program director and World War II army intelligence officer, including a printed version of his army diary and biographical information.
Repository/Collector:
Golda Meir Library, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Nearly a complete run of newsletters and a flyer from the organization comprised of fans of Old Time Radio. The newsletters contain minutes of their meetings as well as membership lists and information about old time radio in Milwaukee and nationally.
Repository/Collector:
Golda Meir Library, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Contains correspondence and files for musical events, radio and television productions, USO performances, newspaper clippings, etc. Also contains an extensive collection of orchestrations, original arrangements, music books, sheet music, music instruction books and individual music parts. The collection also has an extensive audio visual collection as well as studio recordings and commercial phonograph records. Check with library for more information on radio materials. A separate Jelesnik photograph collection, 1930-1999, has some material relating to KDYL and photographs of Ted Mack's 1957 visit to Utah, most likely to audition entertainers for Ted Mack's Original Amateur Hour.
Consists of some publicity material, legal papers, other correspondence and sound recordings. Collection is held by the son of the program's creators. Mr. VanDeventer appeared on the program as "Bobby McGuire."
Consists mostly of correspondence, a speech and notes, ca. 1932, regarding WMBG and WRVA. Lucy was a manager for WRVA and also worked for the Larus & Brother Company that owned WRVA.
An eclectic collection of 41 cassettes with programs of historic interest, e.g., speeches of Winston Churchill, Adolph Hilter, the invasion of Normandy, the Hindenburg disaster, Charles Lindbergh, Amos 'n' Andy, Benny Goodman, etc. A complete list of titles is filed with the collection.
Contains scripts, 1941-1942, of radio interviews of August Dietz, Maude Howlett Woodfin and Louis Booker Wright concerning the publication of books about William Byrd.