This printed text is a series of hearings and reports before the Committee on Un-American Activities, House of Representatives, Eighty-sixth Congress, second session.
We have a massive collection of about 50,000 recordings on CD and vinyl, in addition to both digital and tape airchecks spanning several decades. We also have program guides, advertisements, and station produced publications.
Content types:
Performed music, Spoken word, Still image, and Text
Formats:
Open reel tape (unknown material), Digital Audio Tape (DAT), Photographic print, Digital audio file (including MP3, WAV, AIFF, etc.), Pressed LP disc, Pressed 78rpm disc, Pressed 45rpm disc, Optical disc (Including CD, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-R, DVD-RW, VCD), Analog audiocassette, MiniDisc, Text document, Printed brochure, and Printed magazine
The WTJU recorded music collections highlight a wide variety of rock, jazz, folk, world, and and classical music, with a focus on music not typically heard on commercial broadcast stations. WTJU also houses a largely haphazard variety of station documents, playlists, communications, flyers and other ephemera, and houses a good number of paintings by Steve Keene, a WTJU alum.
Content types:
Performed music, Still image, and Text
Formats:
Pressed LP disc, Pressed 45rpm disc, Optical disc, Analog audiocassette, Photographic print, Text document, and Other
Contains over 200 playscripts and radioscripts, written and performed between 1936-1939 for the Federal Theatre Project. Many of the scripts have been annotated with additional theatrical instructions, corrections and textual changes. Also includes copies of 62 programs and handbills.
Contains music scores, manuscript scores, phonograph records, correspondence, music journals, photographs and guitar music manuals. Papas performed live on WCAP.
Consists of papers and sound recordings that document the history of WRVA, Richmond, VA, the role the station played in Virginia and Richmond for over half-a-century and the development of radio in Virginia and the United States. Includes applause letters, minutes, anniversary booklets, program scripts, program guides, newsletters, histories, interviews, employee questionnaires, sales manuals, audience and sales promotions, rate cards, listener surveys, posters, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, FCC applications and reports, drawings, photographs and sound recordings, 1925-1999. All programs included in the collection are listed in the Index.
Contains 402 reel-toreel tapes (226 original reels and 176 duplicates) of music tracks and original programming broadcast by Huddleston and the Hayden Huddleston Advertising Agency, 1924-1981, on over 350 stations across the United States and Canada. Programs represented on the tapes include Lazy Bill Huggin, Breakfast at the Ponce, Let's Go to Church, What's the Answer, The Hayden Huddleston Show, Claim to Fame, Klub Kwiz, Kiddie Kollege and Klassroom Kuiz. Also includes approximately 500 index cards containing questions used on the quiz shows, 1962-1981.
Preservation of audio-taped programming from faith groups. Originated with Methodist/United Methodist materials and expanded to include other religious groups. Programs are radio interviews and programs, as well as lectures, class presentations, sermons, and more. Collection created my Mike Hickcox originally with United Methodist Communications, the individually, then in collaboration with the United Methodist General Commission on Archives and History. The focus is to preserve significant audio presentations and make them available to be heard.
Content types:
Spoken word
Formats:
Digital audio file (including MP3, WAV, AIFF, etc.) and Open reel tape (unknown material)
Contains papers relating to the founding of WRVA, Richmond in 1925 Virginia's first radio station. Includes daily program logs, 1925-1932, broadcast and publicity material, scrapbooks, photographs and some phonograph records. Lucy was an announcer, writer, producer, performer and general manager of the station during its early years. Also includes papers relating to the Lams & Brother Company, a tobacco firm that owned the station.
Repository/Collector:
Library Special Collections and Archives, Virginia Commonwealth University