Collection consists of bound and unbound trade journals and clipping scrapbooks relating to the history and development of the radio and television broadcasting industry. Includes bound "Yearbooks of Broadcasting" magazine, 1961-1962 and 1964. Also includes papers relating to the daily radio column that Codel wrote for the Radio News Bureau and which appeared in a number of newspapers across the country.
Papers document Coe's work as a producer and director in the theatre, television and film. However, the collection does include recordings of the radio detective series Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar in which Coe was not involved.
The Gay Peoples Union Collection presents digital copies of primary source materials documenting GPU and Milwaukee’s gay liberation movement. Materials were selected from the following collections held by the Division of Archives and Special Collections of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries: the Gay Peoples Union Records, GPU News, and the Eldon Murray Papers.
Content types:
Spoken word and Text
Formats:
Optical disc (including CD, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-R, DVD-RW, VCD), Analog audiocassette, Open reel tape (unknown material), and Digital audio file (including MP3, WAV, AIFF, etc.)
Contains records of The Breakfast Club, 1933-1968, and Don McNeill's TV Club, 1950-1951, and related personal papers of McNeill. Includes program scripts and outlines, publicity and advertising material, photographs, clippings and scrapbooks, films of Breakfast Club simulcasts, TV Club programs and other television programs featuring McNeill. Also includes sound recordings of several Breakfast Club programs from the 1940s and 1950s and master audiotapes for the last seven months of The Breakfast Club, May-December, 1968.
Repository/Collector:
Raynor Memorial Libraries, Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Collection includes a wide variety of printed ephemera (e.g. pamphlets, bulletins, newsletters, publicity and promotional materials, programs, directories, reports, studies and related materials) separated from the manuscript collections covering different aspects of broadcasting. Includes recordings of Dr. Crane's Radio Talks, Volume I, 1948, a collection of broadcasts by Dr. Crane, a Northwestern University psychologist, on topics concerning applied psychology for the lay person.
Microfilm copies of interviews of Phillips Carlin' Hans V. Kaltenborn, Raymond F. Guy, Mark Woods and William S. Hedges compiled by the Radio Unit of the Oral History Collection of Columbia University.
Includes scripts for the Morning Cheer, Bear and Magic Number programs sponsored by the Gillette Rubber Company and broadcast over WTAQ, Eau Claire, WI. Scripts include advertising for the Gillette Rubber Company, jokes, humorous sketches, and stories. Also includes a folder containing historical information about WTAQ.
Includes scripts for Adventures of a Modern Mother, a dramatic series broadcast by NBC, 1940-1941, which was written by Gomme. Also includes a folder of photocopied memorabilia and correspondence.
Consists mainly of radio scripts, 1941-1944, for broadcasts sponsored by a labor group organized during World War II and reactivated during the Korean War to coordinate union aid to government war programs. Topics covered in the scripts include war profits, overtime duty, the draft, workers' education and labor's attitude toward the national war effort.