Includes thousands of radio broadcasts dating back to 1944. Programs featured prominent guests in national politics, science, sports and the humanities. Also includes papers and photographs relating to the Club.
This collection documents the for-profit and nonprofit work of Donald W. Callender, Jr., an industrial archaeologist whose career in the greater Delaware-Pennsylvania-New Jersey area has involved maintenance and restoration of railroads and rail cars. In addition, Callender was involved in the establishment of a regional living history museum, the leadership of historic preservation organizations, and efforts to restore the Wilmington Waterfront and increase tourism to the city. The collection also documents his personal interest in sailing and tall ships and his involvement in the Kalmar Nyckel Foundation.
Content types:
Text and Spoken word
Formats:
Text document, Analog audiocassette, and Microfilm
Includes CBS radio scripts of his coverage of World War II in Europe, post-war documentaries and transcripts from the CBS Rome news bureau, 1951-1953, and from The World Tonight, 1961-1965. Also includes other papers.
Contains papers relating to the founding of WRVA, Richmond in 1925 Virginia's first radio station. Includes daily program logs, 1925-1932, broadcast and publicity material, scrapbooks, photographs and some phonograph records. Lucy was an announcer, writer, producer, performer and general manager of the station during its early years. Also includes papers relating to the Lams & Brother Company, a tobacco firm that owned the station.
Repository/Collector:
Library Special Collections and Archives, Virginia Commonwealth University
Consists mostly of correspondence, a speech and notes, ca. 1932, regarding WMBG and WRVA. Lucy was a manager for WRVA and also worked for the Larus & Brother Company that owned WRVA.
This series contains documents relating to Olin D. Johnston's campaign for governor in 1942 and for the U.S. Senate in 1944. Included are speeches, radio addresses, lists of political operatives, and correspondence relative to the campaigns.
This series contains documents relating to Ransome J. Williams' campaign for governor in 1946. Included are speeches, radio addresses, lists of political operatives, and correspondence relative to the campaigns. Arrangement by county illustrates his strategy and tactics according to the region of the state.
Contains radio scripts and other papers related to Campbell's career as a government advisor, consumer advocate, economics professor, representative of international organizations to the United Nations and author.