Contains personal and professional correspondence, photographs and other papers relating to the actress's career plus sound recordings of Life Can Be Beautiful and other unidentified programs, 1939-1977.
Papers of the founder of the National Academy of Broadcasting, Inc. and a teacher of music in schools and on the radio. Includes correspondence, articles and addresses, scrapbooks, press releases, printed materials, scripts and sound recordings. The correspondence is largely of a personal nature but letters written during the 1930s occasionally display her efforts to become recognized as a pioneer in educational broadcasting. Scripts and teachers' manuals relate to her position as broadcasting director for CBS's American School of the Air. Also includes scripts and recordings for several radio series used to promote NAOB as well as other instructional materials such as "How to Speak and Write for Radio," 1944, which she developed to teach broadcasting techniques.
Includes scripts for a series of programs, 1933, produced by KSTP, to celebrate the 22nd anniversary of the founding of the Camp Fire Girls. A folder list with additional information about this collection is available in the repository.
Alicia Alonso speaks with Kyra Lynn Kaptzan about her early dance training in Spain and Cuba; dance companies she saw in Cuba; the circumstances of her leaving Cuba for the U.S.; her dance training and early career in New York City, including her joining Ballet Theatre; her problems with her eye sight; reasons she concentrates on technique; founding Ballet Nacional de Cuba; touring with Ballet Alicia Alonso; dances choreographed on her; her approach to Giselle; her curtain call bows; leaving the U.S. to live in Cuba and focus on the Ballet Nacional de Cuba; the recruiting of dancers; her staging of ballets for other companies; her own choreographing; the company's choreographers, including Alberto Alonso; family members who work in her company; cultural exchanges with the U.S.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Papers of a broadcaster associated with WHA, Madison, WI relating chiefly to the Homemaker Program which she supervised. Includes listener correspondence, annual reports, committee minutes, 1938-1955, and a subject file containing scripts, circulars and information on program content.
The Soviet All-Union Radio Committee Collection consists of excerpts of classical music, opera, and folk music on tape, all by Russian composers and performed by Russian musicians, from the late 1940s and early 50s. The tapes were used in radio programming by the All-Union Radio Committee (Vsesoiuznoe radio).
Audio recordings from 1976-1987 on 1/4 inch open reel. The collection consists of "Reflections on Georgia," produced for broadcast on WUGA on old farm ways, saints and spirits, etc. Also included is audio of "Folklore in Georgia" featuring performances of local folk musicians including Howard Finster and "Bicentennial Minutes" featuring information about Georgia and UGA.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
314 recordings
Repository/Collector:
Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection
Primarily audio from 1943-1986. The collection consists of audio recordings and segments of various programs penned by Sloane, and recordings of some of his lectures, interviews, and phone conferences. Among the programs available are The Right to Live (1947, NBC) and Joy of Bach (1978). The only videocassette in the collection is a recording of part one of Kids Like These. Allan Sloane is a Peabody Award Winner.
Content types:
Sounds and Other
Extent:
135 recordings
Repository/Collector:
Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection
Martin Bookspan interviews composer and teacher Allan Blank. The composer talks about his teaching experience at number of schools and universities, such as University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa; about his background, and about his career as a violinist with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, conductor, and composer. He discusses his Two studies for brass quintet, Rotation, and Thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird, based on poems by Wallace Stevens, excerpts of which are played during the interview.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Contains professional correspondence, 1952-1975, extensive scripts for various radio programs on the CBS Network, 1948, 1950-1975, and miscellaneous memorabilia.
J. Allen Frear, Jr. (1903-1993) was a politician from Dover, Delaware (Kent County). A member of the Democratic Party, Frear served two terms as U.S. Senator from Delaware. The Senator J. Allen Frear, Jr. papers are primarily those of his congressional career, when he represented Delaware in the U.S. Senate from 1949 to 1960, though the collection also includes personal material from pre- and post-Congressional periods. The collection dates from 1917 to 1963, with bulk of the material dating from 1949 to 1961. The collection consists of correspondence, memoranda, reports, legislation, speeches, clippings, photographs, and audio-visual material. Personal material includes correspondence, class notes, travel brochures and post cards, and memorabilia.
Content types:
Spoken word, Text, Still image, and Two-dimensional moving image
Formats:
Text document, Open reel tape (unknown material), Analog audiocassette, Motion picture film, and Photographic print
Extent:
192 recordings, 80 feet, 75 boxes and 2 oversized boxes
Repository/Collector:
University of Delaware Library, Special Collections
Radio scripts and broadcasts for Town Hall Tonight, The Chesterfield Supper Club, Jack Benny Show, Bing Crosby Show, Bob Hope Show, Henry Morgan Show and The Big Show.
Correspondence, articles, biographies, date books, diaries, radio scripts, histories and speeches documenting Allen's career as editor of "Harper's Magazine," director of the Foreign Policy Association, author of many popular works on American social history and an overseer of Harvard University.
Papers relate to the beginnings of educational radio broadcasting. Includes minutes, 1926-1938, of the University of Chicago Radio Committee and papers on the Rocky Mountain Radio Council, Denver, 1945-1949, the University Broadcasting Council, Chicago, 1935-1938, and the University of Chicago Roundtable, 1938-1963.
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.
Contains over 400 recordings of Slate's broadcasts, including his programs with co-hosts Leo Durocher and Jimmy Piersall as well as recordings of post-game interviews and press conferences with athletes and luncheons of the Southern California Sports Broadcasters Association. Also includes typescripts used in his broadcasts, photographs and publicity material related to his shows. As of 2005, the collection was partially processed.
Repository/Collector:
American Radio Archives, Thousand Oaks Library Foundation
In 1st work: Siegfried Borries, violin ; Radio Berlin Symphony Orchestra ; Otto Rota [i.e. Artur Rother], conductor. In 2nd-3rd works: Alice Howland, soprano ; David Weber, clarinet ; Leopold Mitman [sic], piano. In 4th work: Stradivari Records Chamber Music Ensemble. In 5th work: Saxon State Orchestra ; Karl Böhm, conductor. David Randolph, host ; with unidentified radio announcer.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Includes biographical information on Munsch who hosted Just For Women on WEW, 1940s-1950s, and Alva Dopking who was chief of the St. Louis bureau of the Associated Press.
Pack was a pioneer in the radio broadcasting industry who worked primarily with KALL and KSL. Included are radio scripts, correspondence, newsclippings and personal and professional papers. Boxes 1-14 contain scripts, 1931-1945, for ongoing feature programs written mainly by Pack, including Famous Furniture Stories, Organ Stories, Pioneer Stories and Spelling Bee as well as some audition scripts and campaign proposals. A separate collection includes photographs of KSL. See online finding aid for a list of the programs and dates.
Repository/Collector:
J. Willard Marriott Library, Special Collections, University of Utah
Papers of a writer of dramatic series, specials and quiz programs for radio and television. Includes scripts and drafts for Big Town and some television programs. Also includes script for "Summer is Forever" aired on the Children' s Hour.
WOON-AM, formerly WWON-AM in Woonsocket, RI. Of their archived programs, recordings date to 1953 (HS Hockey) and also include excerpts from one of the oldest continuous morning shows in the country (Coffee 'An, dating to the '50's).
In 1st work: Nikolai Graudan, violoncello ; Joanna Graudan, piano. In 2nd work: Budapest [String] Quartet. In 4th work: I. Stravinsky, composer and conductor. David Randolph, host.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Public radio program "In Recital at Ambassador," on KUSC, Los Angeles, featured live performances of principally classical music from the Ambassador Auditorium in Pasadena, California.
Content types:
Performed music and Spoken word
Formats:
Digital Audio Tape (DAT) and Polyester open reel tape
The collection contains the files of the various organizational departments of the Ambassador Auditorium, Pasadena, California, as well as audio and video recordings. Recordings of radio broadcasts include tapes of National Public Radio broadcasts, "Performance Today," "JazzSet," "Blues Stage" and also "In Recital at Ambassador," as well as a broadcast from the Ivo Pogorelich Competition.
Content types:
Performed music, Still image, Text, and Two-dimensional moving image
Formats:
Analog audiocassette, Digital Audio Tape (DAT), Polyester open reel tape, VHS (including SVHS and VHS-C), Betamax, U-matic (including U-matic S), Open reel video, Photographic print, and Text document
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
Contains a copy of a 78rpm recording that includes the speech Miss Earhart made over a transatlantic radio hookup the day after she landed in Ireland, May, 1932.
Repository/Collector:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University
Consists of governance and financial documents, reports, correspondence, memoranda and notes pertaining to radio programs, courses and programs to promote workers' education, adult and vocational schools and educational programs, 1921-1951.
Mostly flyers for individual programs giving show title, cast of characters and text of DuPont advertisements run during the show. Some programs list featured players or contain plot summaries.
Consists of a complete run of the scripts, and sound recordings for a majority of the programs (a list of the shows is available). Also includes 697 photographs relating to the program. The majority are views of live performances and include photos of actors and actresses, the DuPont Chorus, live audiences and the production staff. Other miscellaneous photographs include DuPont Company exhibits advertising the show, of awards being presented to the DuPont Company and of tours of DuPont plants being given to actors and actresses.
Sound recordings of the series broadcast on WBAA, Purdue University. The interviews examine local and national social issues, including crime, religion, intimidation, protest, AfricanAmerican journalism and art, housing and the National Urban League.
Repository/Collector:
Manuscripts and Visual Collections Department, William Henry Smith Memorial Library
Fragmentary records of the labor union which represented motion picture, television and radio writers and of its predecessor, the Screen Writers Guild. Records consist of agreements negotiated between members and the television industry, a constitution, by-laws, a code of working rules and a bulletin of credits for 1949.
From radio broadcast titled "Manhattan at Large," originating station unknown. Stanley Michaels, host; guests include Dr. Edmund Carpenter, Pamela Mann, Herman D. Farrell, Jr, Randle Borshi,
Produced by the Longhorn Radio Network and the Center for Mexican American Studies for KUT, the "Mexican American Experience" (and its brief successor, "A esta hora conversamos") archive contains interviews, music, and informational programs related to the Mexican American community and their concerns. Topics covered on these programs include political activities of Mexican Americans, Mexican American folklore and folk medicine, corridos, Tejano music, Mexican American musicians, voting rights, education, health, farm workers' unions and working conditions, and some Mexican and Central American topics. "The Mexican American Experience" was first produced by Alejandro Saenz; writers include Andres Tijerina and Santos Reyes. Subsequent moderators and producers include Armando Gutierrez and Linda Fregoso. Linda Fregoso was also the producer and interviewer for "A esta hora conversamos."
Content types:
Performed music, Spoken word, and Sounds (Other than music & language)
Formats:
Open reel tape (unknown material) and Optical disc (including CD, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-R, DVD-RW, VCD)
Created by the Institute of Latin American Studies and KUT, the "Latin American Review" radio program was broadcast as part of the Longhorn Radio Network. Covering all of Latin America and the Caribbean, the program aired from 1973 to 1984. The program was primarily divided into two segments, a news segment, dealing with reports from different parts of Latin America, and an interview segment, in which an individual or small group was interviewed. A diverse number of topics were covered including human rights abuses, economic conditions, music, popular culture, and the history and politics of the region. Originally airing as the "Latin American Press Review" the program had its title changed in 1976 to "Latin American Review."
Content types:
Performed music, Spoken word, and Sounds (Other than music & language)
Formats:
Open reel tape (unknown material), Optical disc (including CD, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-R, DVD-RW, VCD), and Text document
Extent:
472 Reel-to-reel audio tapes (+253 duplicates), 91 compact audio cassettes, and scripts-3.5 linear feet.
1963-1970. Large collection of audio masters on reel-to-reel polyester tape of radionovela (radio soap opera) programs produced by the America's Production Inc. in Miami, Florida during the late 1960s. The company was created by Louis J. Boeri who saw an opportunity to fill the void in Spanish-language radio programming after the collapse of the industry in post-revolutionary Cuba. The programs were produced, written, and performed by a group consisting primarily of professionals, writers, technicians, and performing artists who left Cuba during or just after the 1959 Revolution and Mexican writers as well. In addition to the tapes, there is a small amount of marketing print material that describes the production process and provides program catalogs with synopses of many of the radionovelas produced by API that were licensed to radio stations across Latin America, the United States, and Europe. A small selection of titles and episodes have been dubbed onto compact discs and are available for consultation. There is also a small amount of video and film related to the production of a telenovela (television soap opera).
Contains transcripts of radio and television scripts, 1939-1958, including those of Francis C. Stifler, texts of radio broadcasts, 1921-1943, relating to the church's missionary work and public relations material including samples of radio broadcasts, 1923-1924.
The collection consists of original manuscripts, correspondence, and related documents for "The American Story," the prize-winning, continuing script series prepared and distributed to radio stations as a public service by Broadcast Music, Inc., in association with the Society of American Historians. Designed to bring authoritative American history before wide audiences, "The American Story" was inaugurated in July 1954. Contributors to this series of 212 papers have been such outstanding historians as George Dangerfield, Marquis James, Frank Luther Mott, Allan Nevins, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Bruce Catton, Richard B. Morris, Howard Mumford Jones--115 altogether, faculty members of 48 colleges and universities as well as private individuals.
Extent:
2.5 linear ft (ca.750 items in 5 boxes)
Repository/Collector:
Rare Book and Manuscript Collections, Butler Library
American Women in Radio and Television (AWRT), now called the Alliance of Women in Media (AWM), is the preeminent organization for women in the broadcasting industries. AWRT was founded in 1951 in response to the National Association of Broadcasters' decision to dissolve its women's division. Today, AWRT has over 2,000 members and is a powerful advocate, educator and supporter of women in communications. The AWRT records, which span the years 1947 to 1999, mainly document the organization's yearly national conventions.
Repository/Collector:
Special Collections in Mass Media & Culture, University of Maryland
Includes three transcription discs for The Labor Parade issued by the Radio Division of the American Federation of Labor, 1938. It is likely these recordings were distributed to local unions.
A series of Saturday afternoon talks by Harry Randolph Daniel of the U.S. Department of Commerce broadcast by CBS. Library has first and second series of the broadcasts.
Records of a national organization composed of many Polish American fraternal, social, cultural, professional, veteran and other similar organizations. Collection includes many press releases, papers relating to a special commission dealing with radio and television issues and a radio address commemorating the fifth anniversary of the invasion of Poland.
Repository/Collector:
Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota
Collection of 514 audio tapes with broadcasts from the Golden Age of Radio. Mostly entertainment shows of various genres but also includes some news items and speeches. For a list of the contents check: http://www.umsl.edu/~whmc/guides/whm0256.htm.
Repository/Collector:
Western Historical Manuscript Collection, University of Missouri-St. Louis
Pianist and composer, Mary Lou Williams, was long regarded as the most important female musician in jazz, both as an instrumentalist and as a composer. In this interview she briefly describes some of the difficulties of being recognized as a musician in the male-dominated world of jazz. She also discusses her sacred works, which at the time of the interview were being performed at the St. Thomas church in Harlem.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Contains excerpts from a radio program in which Jonathan Schwartz plays recordings of various songs written by Ira Gershwin as a tribute to the lyricist, and comments on them. Program is incomplete.
Content types:
Sounds
Formats:
Audiocassette
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
KBOO’s analog audio archive includes almost 7,500 items of radio programming in 5, 7, 10″ open reel, CDs, cassettes, DATs, and minidiscs format. KBOO Community Radio went on the air in June of 1968, and radio program recordings date from the late 1940s. This is a collection created from institutional records. This collection is unprocessed. Our archives include Oregon artists Ken Kesey, Ursula LeGuin, Gus Van Sant, political figures such as Kent Ford, and Winona LaDuke, as well as hundreds of poets, hundreds of artists, and hundreds of activists, both recorded lectures, panels, conferences, and street actions. We also have significant live music recordings from Doc Watson to Elliot Smith.
Content types:
Text, Spoken word, Performed music, and Sounds
Formats:
Optical disc (including CD, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-R, DVD-RW, VCD), MiniDisc, Analog audiocassette, Digital Audio Tape, Open reel tape (unknown material), Digital audio file (including MP3, WAV, AIFF, etc.), and Text document
Extent:
Numbers are estimates, as some labeled items are bundled and dates were not recorded for all items. 7600 individual items: 1,361 10" open reel (1947-2001), 1,865 7" open reel (1948-1969), 99 5" open reel, 1,500 cassettes (1948-2008), 112 digital audio tapes (1969-2004), 217 minidiscs (1969-2004), 2,433 optical discs (1967-2013).
Reports on radio listening by Crossley, Inc., a market research firm known for its "Crossley Ratings." The reports concern network programming, advertising in selected cities and audience composition and behavior.
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
The main program this group produced was the "Protestant Hour," a join venture of several southern denominations, including Presbyterians, Methodists and Baptists.
Maude Adams on Stevens College (1:13) -- Maude Adams recites prologue to Edmond Rostand's Chantecler (2:27) -- Rudy Vallee speaks with Hilaire Belloc (7:59) -- Virgil Thomson speaks about Four Saints in three acts (6:30) -- Gertrude Stein [from a 1934 radio broadcast?] (1:20) -- Fay Compton [from a 1969 television broadcast?] (3:33)
Content types:
Sounds
Formats:
Reel-to-reel and CD
Extent:
2 recordings
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Wilhelm Kempff, piano (3rd work) ; Egon Petri, piano (4th work) ; Vienna State Opera with Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra (6th work) ; Budapest Quartet (7th work) ; New Music Quartet (8th work) ; David Randolph, host ; with unidentified radio announcer and various performers.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
In 1st work: Hughes Cuénod, tenor (Narrator) ; Derrik Olsen, baritone (Tancredi) ; Dora Abel, soprano (Clorinda) ; Radio Zurich Symphony Orchestra ; Walter Goehr, conductor. In 2nd work: Eleanor Houston, soprano (Dido) ; Henry Cummings, baritone (Aeneas) ; with unidentified soloists ; Stuart Chamber Orchestra and Chorus ; Jackson Gregory, conductor. David Randolph, host ; with unidentified radio announcer.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
In 1st-5th works: Hugues Cuénod, tenor ; Hermann Leeb, lute. In 6th work (aka 5th work, version 2): Paul Matthen, bass ; Emilia Mitrani, piano. In 7th work: Lorna Sydney, second-soprano ; Wilhelm Loibner, piano. In 8th-16th works: Anna Louise Kautz and Harriet Hill, sopranos ; Mildred Greenberg, contralto ; Abram Sheer, tenor ; Bert Spero, baritone. David Randolph, host ; with unidentified radio announcer.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Cassettes contain both the full performance and two radio commercial spots of the NYSF musical On the lock-in. The radio spots were broadcast on WBLS FM.
Content types:
Sounds
Formats:
Audiocassette
Extent:
2 recordings
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
"In Stomp, the members of the Combine used music, scenes and film to talk about their lives and times. The group was predominately comprised of dropouts from various programs at the University of Texas, and the show explains in part their journey from college kids to hippies"
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center