Consists of office files of individuals, correspondence, minutes, reports, photographs, scripts of radio programs and spots, sermons preached on the air, articles, addresses and staff papers about religious broadcasting. Includes papers relating to The Protestant Hour.
Contains scripts written by Gaeta for television and radio commercials during the 1950s, especially for Mentholatum, but also for other products advertised by JWT.
Digital images, with searchable database, for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955. Radio programs can be searched separately at http:// scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/adaccess/.
Repository/Collector:
John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising and Marketing History
An artificially created collection of information about client accounts held by JWT that provides information about the agency's management of client advertising campaigns. The collection includes account histories, research reports, memoranda, correspondence, printed material, clippings, brochures and pamphlets, product labels and packaging designs. Additionally, the files document deliberations about such topics as media selection, markets and target audience for individual advertising campaigns. The largest account files are those relating to Chesebrough-Pond's, Inc., the General Cigar Company, the Andrew Jergens Company, Oneida Limited, Pan American World Airways, Standard Brands, Inc. and the United States Playing Card Company. The online finding aid lists other clients. The only radio program specifically mentioned in the finding aid is the Chase and Sanborn Hour, 1929-1943, although radio material could be included in other client history materials.
Repository/Collector:
John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising and Marketing History
Includes scripts written by Bregman for David Dickon's program, Parade of American Songs, broadcast weekly over WEVD, New York in the early 1930s. Collection includes other materials relating to folk music and Bregman's personal life.
Repository/Collector:
Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Includes scripts of Alliance broadcasts, 1925-1939 and 1945. The programs were broadcast from Richmond, New York, and Washington, DC and gave information on specific occupations and discussed vocational guidance issues. Additional records for the Alliance from 1947 to 1963 can be found in the Amber Arthur Warburton papers also located in the Manuscript Department.
Includes correspondence, notes, scripts, films and other items relating to Fisher's career in radio and in television news broadcasting. Online finding aid lists names and dates of scripts but not for what radio program.
Repository/Collector:
Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Includes an interview with Arthur Jackson, commonly known as Peg Leg Sam, an African American blues harmonica player and medicine show performer, about his experiences in show business, medicine shows, radio broadcasting and riding freight trains.
Repository/Collector:
Southern Folklife Collection, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Julian Price was a businessman, journalist, and civic leader. A native of Greensboro, NC, Price was the grandson of Jefferson Standard Insurance executive Julian Price (1867-1946). Price lived in Asheville, NC, from 1990 until his death in 2001, using his extensive wealth and philanthropic spirit to fuel a revitalization of Asheville’s downtown. Price was very interested in radio and print journalism, and recorded a number of interviews for broadcast on public radio stations. This collection contains over 50 cassette recordings of Price’s radio programs.
Content types:
Spoken word and Performed music
Formats:
Analog audiocassette, Optical disc (Including CD, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-R, DVD-RW, VCD), Text document, Photographic negative, Photographic print, and VHS (including SVHS and VHS-C)
Consists primarily of advertisements for various Liggett & Myers tobacco products such as Chesterfield, Fatima and Piedmont cigarettes, ca. 1910-1950s, as well as advertisements for competitors during the 1970s. Also includes scripts for radio and television commercials, 1949-1961.
Contains sound recordings of radio programs on issues related to the work of the Highlander Folk School, including labor issues with the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA).
Repository/Collector:
Southern Folklife Collection, University of North Carolina, 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
Includes material that documents three advertising agencies : D' Arey Masius Benton & Bowles (DMB&B), Benton & Bowles (B&B), and D'Arcy-MacManus & Masius (D-MM). Most of the radio related material is in the "Clients Series, 1931-1985, n.d., bulk 1970-1980s, n.d." Includes material about the Maxwell House Radio Showboat, May, 1933, and six scripts about great composers broadcast on Prudential's The Family Hour, 1943.
Repository/Collector:
John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising and Marketing History
The Archives are organized into more than 45 separate collections, each with its own online finding aid that describes in very general terms the types of documents in the collection and which may or may not include radio related material. For example, the "Quaker Oats Account Files, 1945-1965, 1977" collection contains 3l Aunt Jemima reports, 1945-1965, 1977 but does not indicate whether radio is discussed in any of the reports . A complete list of the JWT finding aids is available at: http://scriptori um .lib.duke.edu/ dynaweb/findaids/
Repository/Collector:
John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising and Marketing History