Includes audio recordings and scripts for New York Philharmonic radio programs, l 940s-ca.1980, letters from listeners, 1951-1956, program notes, press releases and other papers relating to fund raising, radio membership and the radio programs.
The station records of WLBZ begin in 1931, and consists mostly of station logs (1931-1956). Also included are some audio tapes and materials concerning licensing and operations
Content types:
Spoken word, Still Image, Text, and Performed music
Formats:
Pressed 78rpm disc, Pressed 45rpm disc, Open reel tape (unknown material), Analog audiocassette, and Digital audio file (including MP3, WAV, AIFF, etc.)
Extent:
30 Boxes/36 Linear Feet (including paper archives)
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.
Contains production material, including scripts and phonograph recordings, relating to Corwin's work as a writer for stage, screen and radio, 1937-1967.
The Leo Reisman collection contains primarily private acetate disc recordings of Reisman's radio performances of the 1930's, as well as Reisman's personal collection of commercial 78 rpm discs. Included among the noncommercial recordings are extensive holdings of his Philip Morris Show and Schaefer's nine o'clock revue appearances. Less complete holdings for Lucky Strike's your hit parade are also included. The commercial disc collection is comprised mostly of Reisman's commercially released recordings, as well as a small number of other artists' recordings
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
809 recordings
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center