This collection contains over 5,000 submissions to the National Story Project, a program that aired from 1999 November until 2001 July on National Public Radio's (NPR's) Weekend All Things Considered. The National Story Project was created and supervised by American author, Paul Auster. The collection primarily contains printed e-mail submissions and letters received through the mail. In addition to the stories, some participants sent cassette tapes or "CD"s of themselves reading their stories or performing music to accompany the submission. Also included are books, photographs, newspapers, magazines, pamphlets and other materials either meant to verify their submission as true, add context to their submission, or to show other formats that their submissions had appeared in previously.
Formats:
Analog audiocassette and Optical disc (Including CD, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-R, DVD-RW, VCD)
Extent:
7.5 linear feet
Repository/Collector:
Rare Book and Manuscript Collections, Butler Library
The collection consists of original manuscripts, correspondence, and related documents for "The American Story," the prize-winning, continuing script series prepared and distributed to radio stations as a public service by Broadcast Music, Inc., in association with the Society of American Historians. Designed to bring authoritative American history before wide audiences, "The American Story" was inaugurated in July 1954. Contributors to this series of 212 papers have been such outstanding historians as George Dangerfield, Marquis James, Frank Luther Mott, Allan Nevins, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Bruce Catton, Richard B. Morris, Howard Mumford Jones--115 altogether, faculty members of 48 colleges and universities as well as private individuals.
Extent:
2.5 linear ft (ca.750 items in 5 boxes)
Repository/Collector:
Rare Book and Manuscript Collections, Butler Library
Radio and television announcer, reporter, commentator, and host, Grauer began his career as a child actor on the Broadway stage and in silent movies. After graduating from college in 1930, he was hired by the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) and became one of its most famous "voices." The collection includes correspondence, manuscripts, diaries, radio, television, and "Film" scripts, notes, subject files, documents, financial records, photographs, memorabilia, clippings, and printed materials. The manuscripts consist of early writings; radio, television, "Film", and sound recording scripts with related notes and correspondence. The majority of the Scripts File are for NBC productions, but also included are scripts for the Voice of America, commercials, "Film"s, and records. Among Grauer's many "firsts" in broadcasting are the first live report of Count Folke Bernadotte's assasination, the first radio show to present cash prizes ("Pot 'o Gold"), and NBC television's first live news event, the opening of the 1939 New York World's Fair. Also included is one audio tape recording of "Salute to Ben Grauer," Nov. 15, 1950, an off the air recording.
Formats:
Open reel tape (unknown material)
Extent:
80 linear ft. (171 boxes, 1 audio tape)
Repository/Collector:
Rare Book and Manuscript Collections, Butler Library
Prose manuscripts, related correspondence, notes, printed material, and audio tapes of Thomson. Included are notes and drafts of many of Thomson's early articles, and numerous manuscripts of columns published in the HERALD TRIBUNE in the 1940s. Thomson's special interests reflected in these writings are modern music, American hymns, and the performance of music in Europe. Also, 125 reels of tapes of Thomson's program on radio station WNCN (New York), 1969-1970.
Formats:
Open reel tape (unknown material)
Extent:
17 boxes, 1 oversize folder, 125 audio tape reels
Repository/Collector:
Rare Book and Manuscript Collections, Butler Library
Mimeographed daily broadcast content reports of the U.S. Information Agency, Broadcast Service, Munich Radio Center, the "Voice of America." The reports are from the end of November 1954 through May 1956.
Extent:
19 boxes
Repository/Collector:
Rare Book and Manuscript Collections, Butler Library
Included are Sanger's personal diaries (1936-1967) relating to WQXR. Also included is a complete bound file of the WQXR PROGRAM GUIDE (June 1936-December 1963) containing a record of the broadcasting of classical music in New York City, the daily schedule, and essays on composers, music festivals, individual compositions and music in general by such writers as Irwin Edman, Will Durant, M. Lincoln Schuster, Edward Johnson, John Barbirolli, as well as by Sanger and his co-founder, John V. L. Hogan. There are also four tape recordings of radio broadcast interviews with Mr. Sanger aired in 1973.
Extent:
3 linear ft. ( 8 boxes)
Repository/Collector:
Rare Book and Manuscript Collections, Butler Library
The collection consists of 5 folders of mimeographs of Ralph W. Sockman's addresses from the National Broadcasting Company's (NBC) radio program the National radio pulpit.
Extent:
0.25 linear feet
Repository/Collector:
Rare Book and Manuscript Collections, Butler Library
Professional and personal files including Armstrong's correspondence with professional associations, other engineers, and friends, his research notes, circuit diagrams, lectures, articles, legal papers, and other related materials. Of his many inventions and developments, the most important are: 1) the regenerative or feedback circuit, 1912, the first amplified radio reception, 2) the superheterodyne circuit, 1918, the basis of modern radio and radar, 3) superregeneration, 1922, a very simple, high-power receiver now used in emergency mobile service, and 4) frequency modulation - FM, 1933, static-free radio reception of high fidelity
Extent:
295.7 linear ft ( 573 boxes, 30 flat folders, 10 phono discs, & 5 tape reels).
Repository/Collector:
Rare Book and Manuscript Collections, Butler Library
Correspondence, speeches, memoranda, minutes, and publications, including radio talks and platform addresses given at the Society for Ethical Culture, the papers of several housing committees on which Black served, and autobiographical subject files compiled by Black and documenting his participation in many organizations and social causes.
Extent:
12 linear ft (ca. 14,035 items in 27 boxes)
Repository/Collector:
Rare Book and Manuscript Collections, Butler Library
The Bob Fass Recordings and Papers contains materials created by Bob Fass, host of the late-night program Radio Unnameable on New York City’s WBAI radio station. The collection primarily consists of audio recordings of Radio Unnameable and other radio programs hosted by Bob Fass between 1963 and 2011. A small number of video recordings, photographs, correspondence, printed ephemera, and motion picture films are also included in the collection.
Extent:
190 linear ft. (157 record cartons, 5 document boxes, 80 audiocassette boxes, and 18 flat boxes)
Repository/Collector:
Rare Book and Manuscript Collections, Butler Library
William "Billy" Friedberg (1916-1965) is best remembered as a television comedy writer, although he also wrote plays, musicals, variety reviews, short stories, and radio programs. Among his best-known works are episodes of "Car 54, Where Are You?", "As Time Goes By", and "The Phil Silvers Show". Friedberg's work represented in this collection spans many genres, including comedy review sketches, TV dramas, short stories, plays, and musicals.
Extent:
5.7 linear feet
Repository/Collector:
Rare Book and Manuscript Collections, Butler Library
The Bureau of Applied Social Research, headed by sociologist Paul Lazarsfeld, was established in 1944 and helped make Columbia a pioneering institution in the social sciences. Through empirical research, ideas regarding the functioning of individuals and groups were developed and tested. Many ground-breaking studies were conducted by Lazarsfeld and his colleagues, among the most important of which was the impact of radio and television on the American public. Through such work, the Bureau become the "birthplace" of mass communication research. Many survey techniques were developed at the Bureau, such as the focused interview and panel interviewing methods. The Bureau was eventually succeeded by the Center for the Social Sciences in 1976.
Extent:
103 boxes
Repository/Collector:
Rare Book and Manuscript Collections, Butler Library
The Andrew Sarris Papers are comprised of correspondence, drafts and manuscripts, clippings, printed ephemera, periodicals, monographs, photographs, and audio recordings related to the career and personal life of renowned film critic Andrew Sarris.
Extent:
20 linear feet
Repository/Collector:
Rare Book and Manuscript Collections, Butler Library
Contains correspondence, scripts, manuscripts and reports regarding his activities in the American radio and film industries. Included are papers regarding projects about various television and radio networks and private ventures. Also includes material regarding the Center for Mass Communications of Columbia University in which Bamouw figured prominently and files for the books he has written dealing with radio history. The online catalog listing for the Papers includes the names of more than a dozen radio related people referenced in the collection. The Radio Pioneers Oral History project also contains a transcript of a Barnouw interview.
Repository/Collector:
Rare Book and Manuscript Collections, Butler Library
Consists of correspondence, manuscripts, typescripts, notes, photographs and printed materials relating to his research, writing and teaching. Also includes correspondence concerning his syndicated radio talks.
Repository/Collector:
Rare Book and Manuscript Collections, Butler Library