Contains a collection of automobile and petroleum industry advertisements, ca. 1920-1949 that include sheet music and other material from radio programs sponsored by gasoline, oil or automobile companies. Also includes photographs of the radio personalities appearing on the covers.
Includes personal and business papers. Papers relating to KPRC are in Hobby's personal office files and range from early architectural drawings to licenses to instructions on how to run the switchboard. Also includes files from FCC hearings, 1955-1959, and a history of the station.
Repository/Collector:
Woodson Research Center Special Collections & Archives, Fondren Library
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.
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
Consists largely of photographs and newspaper articles but also includes some personal correspondence and memorabilia. The bulk of the material relates to Camille Brown Waggaman and focuses on her radio career, 1932-1963, and the years after her retirement. Waggaman hosted a radio talk show in Alabama, Around the Town, for 31 years.
Repository/Collector:
Woodson Research Center Special Collections & Archives, Fondren Library
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.
Includes articles, scripts and photographs of Tait Cummins, a sports writer and broadcaster in Cedar Rapids. His second wife, Dorothy Ireland Cummins, also worked at WMT.
Includes records documenting the many film, video and radio production activities of the Smithsonian. See online listing for names of specific projects.
Includes materials that span the entire history of the growth of the radio industry. While most of the materials document technical aspects of radio, Series 109 and 134 contain considerable information on broadcasting history.