Papers of Rochester's first African American radio personality broadcasting on WSAY, including scripts for The Vignettes, The Gospel Hour, The Bronze Trombones, The King Coles Show and other programs, 1946-1974, and related material. Collection also includes tapes of the programs.
Repository/Collector:
Rochester Museum & Science Center, Collections and Research Department
The collection consists of noncommercial sound recordings including performances by Jascha Heifetz and Larry Adler of popular chamber music; a performance of Aaron Avshalomoff's Symphony no. 2 by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra conducted by Thor Johnson; a speech by Mrs. Gilbert Chapman broadcast in 1943 promoting the American Women's Voluntary Services; and radio and television interviews with Gilbert W. Chapman and dancer Alexandra Danilova. The interviews with Chapman were recorded from 1956 to 1962 and concern literacy and education in the United States. Notable television and radio programs represented in the collection include the Tex and Jinx television program; a Monitor radio program; and a Lee Graham television interview. Also included is the opening address (given by Mr. Chapman) of the New York Public Library 50th anniversary convocation, and a radio program featuring a story about the WNYC book festival.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
17 recordings
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Contains correspondence, manuscripts of Gernsback's articles, editorials, speeches and printed material, including runs of periodicals published by Gernsback and amateurs' manuals relating to electronics and radio.
Contains correspondence, radio scripts and speeches and research material related to Hansl's career as program supervisor, 1939-1940, for the series Women in the Making of America broadcast in cooperation with the WPA's Federal Theatre Radio Division, Gallant American Women, and Womanpower, 1943-1944.