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).
Collection comprises 135 15-minute episodes of Freedom Story, a radio program produced by Spiritual Mobilization, Inc., from 1951 to 1956. The programs feature dramatizations on conservative and libertarian themes and commentary.
Content types:
Spoken word
Formats:
Analog audiocassette and Digital audio file (including MP3, WAV, AIFF, etc.)
Extent:
135 digital audio files
Repository/Collector:
University of Oregon Special Collections and University Archives
Compilation of 31 cassettes of numerous short advertisements for local, regional and national companies which aired on Portland area stations. Includes spots for the Oregon Shakespearean Festival, 1959, Blitz-Weinhard Brewing Co. and the U.S. National Bank.
Twentyeight cassettes of different programs, including a promotional spot for a performance by the United States Air Force Band at the Astoria Armory, the Douglas Grader Show broadcast from the Clatsop County Fair and a number of commercials for various Astoria area merchants, including Garcia Ford, Bjorklund's and the Owl Drug Store.
Compilation of 50 discs containing educational programs produced under the auspices of the Portland Public Schools as well as programming produced by KGW or released from other affiliates. Programs include The American Challenge, a U.S. history series, Their Name was Courage, historical dramas about Washington state, Bill Scott, Forest Ranger, a conservation program sponsored by the U.S. Forest Service, live coverage of the 1941 Benson High School dance and a drama from Reed College, 1939.
Collection of 25 recordings containing local and national news programs (NBC and ABC), including World War II and Korean War news and the historical series Mr. President. Local programs include the sports news program Radio Box Score and the country music program Neath Western Skies.
Collection of 150 discs containing local and national programs on World War II and the early Cold War. Highlights include: D-Day invasion news, a translation of a Hitler speech from Danzig, live coverage of an atomic bomb detonation, speeches by presidents Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower, British prime minister Winston Churchill and New York governor Thomas Dewey. National entertainment programs include soap operas such as Lora Lawton and musical variety shows. Local highlights include Roosevelt's speech from Bremerton, WA, local news programs, Mayor Earl Riley's blackout order for Portland following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, coverage of the last run of the Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway's train to Seaside, OR, educational programs such as Reading is Fun and the local variety show, Grandpappy and Pals.
Collection of 400 discs containing local and national news programs (CBS), including reports on World War II, the Korean War and the Cold War as well as the speeches of Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Winston Churchill and others. Local programs include documentaries on the Tillamook Burn, 1943 and 1953, live reports on Kaiser shipyard launchings, 1941-1945, reports on the Vanport Flood, 1948, the Northwest Neighbors talk show, the historical drama "Song of the Columbia," the award-winning documentary on African-American physician Dr. Charles Drew entitled "Who Killed Dr. Drew," Kid Critics, featuring Portland area grade school children reviewing books, Pacific Power and Light and Northwest Electric commercials, 1941-1947, and a live concert with Jane Powell from Portland's South Park Blocks.
Three audio cassettes of numerous short public service announcements which aired on Portland area stations. Includes spots for the Oregon Junior Symphony, 1958, the Odd Fellows, 1970, and the Oregon State Game Commission.
Compilation of 40 recordings of advertisements promoting the purchase of U.S. savings bonds which aired on Portland area stations. The spots often featured celebrity guest stars, including Mel Torme, Maureen O'Hara, "Tennessee" Ernie Ford and others.
Contains correspondence, program schedules and scripts that document library radio programs, including Ask Your State Library, 1942-1943, and Library Hour, 1949.
Include speeches, radio program materials, publications and teaching materials prepared in her role as an extension specialist in child development and family life at Oregon State College and Iowa State University.
Contains Wilson's personal and professional papers and includes scripts for the 15 minute radio spots prepared by the Oregon State Game Commission which Wilson headed. The programs were broadcast bi-monthly over KOAC, 1940-1944.
Includes news releases, sound recordings of radio programs and public service announcements by University Extension programs in agriculture, home economics, marine resources and 4-H.
Records document the establishment and functioning of the KOAC public radio and television stations at Oregon Agricultural College (Oregon State University). Includes administrative records, radio scripts and programs and sound recordings.
Includes scripts and related notes, correspondence and documentation pertaining to several radio productions on Oregon history and geography that Munford created in the mid 1930s and early 1940s. Also includes records relating to KOAC, School of the Air and other radio programs.
Papers consist of agriculture related materials produced or collected by Kadderly during his work overseas as a farm broadcaster on the radio and newsclippings announcing his departure from KOAC in 1933.
Consists of investigation files relating to his being blacklisted during the McCarthy era, including a diary he kept during his 30-day jail sentence, correspondence, literary manuscripts and scripts for television, radio and the theater.
Repository/Collector:
Special Collections and University Archives, University of Oregon
Transcripts of three programs broadcast over KVEP, Portland, OR, March 3-5, 1930, that were sponsored by the Anti-Chain Store League of Portland and delivered by Robert G. Duncan.
Repository/Collector:
Special Collections and University Archives, University of Oregon
Galley proof of radio speech given by Governor Martin over KALE and KEX, December 6, 1937. The speech calls for a settlement to the dispute between two opposing labor groups by holding a special election on December 9, 1937.
Repository/Collector:
Special Collections and University Archives, University of Oregon
Consists primarily of book manuscripts, correspondence and an original corrected copy of an interview with Joseph Stalin, November 22, 1930, signed by Stalin. Lyons was a radio commentator. Check unpublished finding aid to determine if collection includes any radio related papers.
Repository/Collector:
Special Collections and University Archives, University of Oregon
Copy of radio address given by Senator George W. Joseph over KXL, Sept. 13, 1928. The speech opposes Chief Justice John L. Rand, candidate for re-election to the Oregon Supreme Court.
Repository/Collector:
Special Collections and University Archives, University of Oregon
Includes some radio scripts and sound recordings of interviews with Robert W. Kenny, an influential liberal who championed the rights of several of the Hollywood 10 before the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) and interviews from radio shows when Stevenson and her first husband, Philip Stevenson, were guests.
Repository/Collector:
Special Collections and University Archives, University of Oregon
Typescripts for the program prepared under the direction of Martin Schmitt for the University of Oregon Library. Includes related correspondence, program schedules and short critiques of some of the programs.
Repository/Collector:
Special Collections and University Archives, University of Oregon
Contains the papers of Claire Warner ChurchiII Thompson, including radio scripts she wrote for WPA programs and papers relating to Soldiers of the Air, 1941-1942, a series of radio dramas for the Army Recruiting Service that were broadcast on KOIN.
Repository/Collector:
Special Collections and University Archives, University of Oregon
Includes personal and professional correspondence and manuscript copies of novels and short stories. Also includes correspondence about the "Cappy Ric ks" radio rights controversy although the "Cappy Ricks" stories are not included in the collection.
Repository/Collector:
Special Collections and University Archives, University of Oregon
Includes scripts and associated material for 204 Death Valley Days radio and television programs, an index to the scripts, notebooks from summer research trips and correspondence with Death Valley acquaintances.
Repository/Collector:
Special Collections and University Archives, University of Oregon
Consists of diaries, correspondence, manuscripts of novels, short stories, poetry, radio scripts, research material, financial material and copies of her published works.
Repository/Collector:
Special Collections and University Archives, University of Oregon
Consists of manuscripts of novels, novelettes, short stories, articles, comic strip treatments, radio scripts and motion picture treatments. The correspondence relates mainly to Curry's professional and business affairs with some personal letters. Online finding aid lists titles of the radio scripts but not dates or the names of the programs.
Repository/Collector:
Special Collections and University Archives, University of Oregon
Consists of correspondence, radio scripts, writings by Butterworth, sound recordings, photographs and memorabilia. May include material related to Pages in Time.
Repository/Collector:
Special Collections and University Archives, University of Oregon
Papers deal primarily with Stone's involvement with the issue of tax reform and include his personal papers, research materials for his books, articles, radio broadcasts, newsclippings and published articles.
Repository/Collector:
Special Collections and University Archives, University of Oregon