Collection includes sound recordings of network comedy, mystery, music, Armed Forces Radio Service, music libraries, news programs, including World War II news broadcasts, CBS and standard library of recorded sound effects as well as many manual sound effects, oral histories, scripts, including Fibber McGee and Molly and The Dennis Day Show, photographs, publications, including trade magazines, equipment and other radio memorabilia. In the future, the PPB archives will be combined with the American Radio Archives at the Thousand Oaks Library in Thousand Oaks, CA. The Pacific Pioneers is a membership organization comprised of men and women with at least 20 years professional employment in the field of radio and television broadcasting or allied fields.
Consists Primarily of black and white photographs of Rudy Vallee, his friends and associates and locations where he performed. Also includes one color photograph of Vallee and his wife Eleanor (ca. 1980), one letter from Vallee, several greeting cards and a small file of press clippings.
Contains material for Lewis's television and radio programs, including complete scripts as well as jokes and monologues written for use on these programs, correspondence, news clippings, music scores and photographs that document his entertainment career between the mid-1940s and 1960. Radio programs that are represented in this collection include Arthur Godfrey Time and both the radio and television versions of the Robert Q. Lewis Show.
Contains personal documents in Vallee's possession at the time of his death, including correspondence, scrapbooks, radio and television scripts, sound recordings, musical scores, photographs, business records, press clippings and ephemera. The bulk of accessible materials document Vallee's career in radio broadcasting and entertainment, 1925-1975.
Contains musical scores and arrangements prepared and used by the members of the Sportsmen Quartet during their performing career, 1943-ca. 1970. The group is most closely associated with the Jack Benny radio and television programs.
Contains over 11,000 recordings of radio programs, 1930-1960, as well as documentary recordings from later years plus papers that include extensive research files largely concentrating on Fibber McGee and Molly and its stars Jim and Marian Jordan. Only those sound recordings that have been transferred to cassette are available for use.