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2. WAMH/WAMF Records
- Description:
- Records of the Amherst College student radio station, WAMH (formerly WAMF). Records include audio recordings, publicity materials, program guides, correspondence, photographs, training materials, FCC materials and internal documentation of radio station operations. This collection recieves frequent additions.
- Content types:
- Performed music, Sounds (Other than music & language), Spoken word, Still image, and Text
- Formats:
- Analog audiocassette, Polyester open reel tape, Acetate open reel tape, Digital audio file, Photographic print, and Text document
- Extent:
- 7 linear feet
- Repository/Collector:
- Amherst College Archives & Special Collections
- Online finding aid:
- View on asteria.fivecolleges.edu
3. Johnny Green sound recordings and motion pictures, 1934-1989
- Description:
- Consists of rehearsal, demo, and master recordings made by Green of motion picture soundtracks, television and radio broadcasts, and concert performances. Includes sound recordings made by others in which Green is featured. Also includes copies of motion pictures and television broadcasts that relate to Green's career.
- Content types:
- Performed music, Spoken word, and Two-dimensional moving image
- Formats:
- Open reel tape (unknown material), Analog audiocassette, U-matic (including U-matic S), and Motion picture film
- Extent:
- 74 linear feet (88 boxes)
- Repository/Collector:
- Houghton Library
- Online finding aid:
- View on nrs.harvard.edu
4. WFCR Radio Broadcast Collection
- Description:
- The first public radio station in western New England, WFCR Five College Radio has provided a mix of high quality, locally-produced and nationally syndicated programming since May 1961. In 2012, the station reached over 175,000 listeners per week, with a mix of classical and jazz music, news, and entertainment. The WFCR Collection contains nearly 4,500 reel to reel recordings of locally-produced radio programs, reflecting over fifty years of the cultural and intellectual life of western Massachusetts. Drawing upon the talents of the faculty and students of the Five Colleges (Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, and Smith Colleges and UMass Amherst), the collection offers a remarkable breadth of content, ranging from public affairs to community and national news, cultural programming, children's programming, news and current events, scholarly lectures, classical music, and jazz.
- Content types:
- Performed music, Sounds (Other than music & language), and Spoken word
- Formats:
- Analog audiocassette and Polyester open reel tape
- Extent:
- 462 linear feet
- Repository/Collector:
- UMass Amherst Libraries, Special Collections & University Archives
- Online finding aid:
- View on scua.library.umass.edu
5. James A. Freeman Broadcast Radio Collection
- Description:
- A professor of English at UMass Amherst, James A. Freeman is a scholar of seventeenth century British literature who has compiled an impressively eclectic array of publications and research projects. Educated at Amherst College (AB 1956) and the University of Minnesota (PhD 1968), Freeman joined the faculty in the English Department at UMass shortly after completing his doctorate. He has published on topics ranging from Latin and Greek poets to Shakespeare, Milton, Swift, Tennyson, James Agee, Donald Duck, 17th century regicides, and 1930s radio. He has also served as a regular contributor and editor for the Association for Gravestone Studies Quarterly. The Freeman collection consists of many hundreds of cassette tapes of radio broadcasts from the 1930s through early 1950s, reflecting the culture of commercial radio during its golden age. The collection includes representatives of most of the major genres, including comedy, drama, suspense and mystery, soap operas, and westerns. There is some depth popular programs such as Amos and Andy, the Great Gildersleeve, Philip Marlowe, and Nero Wolfe, but the collection also includes less common and short-lived shows.
- Content types:
- Spoken word
- Formats:
- Analog audiocassette
- Extent:
- 27 linear feet
- Repository/Collector:
- UMass Amherst Libraries, Special Collections & University Archives
- Online finding aid:
- View on scua.library.umass.edu
6. Local Rural Life Audiotape Collection
- Description:
- Audiotape recordings of interviews conducted with members of the Pioneer Valley community for a public radio program. Titles of the shows that aired include: "Portrait of a Farm Woman," "Hadley: the Portrait of an Endangered Town," Keeping Rural Businesses in Business," and "Shepherds, Bumpkins and Farmers’ Daughters."
- Content types:
- Spoken word
- Formats:
- Analog audiocassette
- Extent:
- 0.25 linear feet
- Repository/Collector:
- UMass Amherst Libraries, Special Collections & University Archives
- Online finding aid:
- View on scua.library.umass.edu
7. Edward Gordon Craig Collection
- Description:
- A noted figure in modernist theater, Edward Gordon Craig was born in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, on Jan. 16, 1872, the illegitimate son of the renowned actress Ellen Terry and the architect Edward William Craig. Although the most productive portion of his career was brief, he exerted a strong influence on the field of set design and lighting, and was fairly prolific as a writer on theatre. The six audio recordings that comprise the Craig collection originated from a series of BBC radio talks in the early 1950s. The reel to reel tapes include Craig’s reminiscences of Ellen Terry, Isadora Duncan, the old school of acting, celebrities, and how he played Hamlet in Salford, Lancashire.
- Content types:
- Spoken word
- Formats:
- Analog audiocassette
- Extent:
- 0.5 linear feet
- Repository/Collector:
- UMass Amherst Libraries, Special Collections & University Archives
- Online finding aid:
- View on scua.library.umass.edu