Consists of office files of individuals, correspondence, minutes, reports, photographs, scripts of radio programs and spots, sermons preached on the air, articles, addresses and staff papers about religious broadcasting. Includes papers relating to The Protestant Hour.
Contains scripts written by Gaeta for television and radio commercials during the 1950s, especially for Mentholatum, but also for other products advertised by JWT.
Digital images, with searchable database, for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955. Radio programs can be searched separately at http:// scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/adaccess/.
Repository/Collector:
John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising and Marketing History
An artificially created collection of information about client accounts held by JWT that provides information about the agency's management of client advertising campaigns. The collection includes account histories, research reports, memoranda, correspondence, printed material, clippings, brochures and pamphlets, product labels and packaging designs. Additionally, the files document deliberations about such topics as media selection, markets and target audience for individual advertising campaigns. The largest account files are those relating to Chesebrough-Pond's, Inc., the General Cigar Company, the Andrew Jergens Company, Oneida Limited, Pan American World Airways, Standard Brands, Inc. and the United States Playing Card Company. The online finding aid lists other clients. The only radio program specifically mentioned in the finding aid is the Chase and Sanborn Hour, 1929-1943, although radio material could be included in other client history materials.
Repository/Collector:
John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising and Marketing History
Includes scripts written by Bregman for David Dickon's program, Parade of American Songs, broadcast weekly over WEVD, New York in the early 1930s. Collection includes other materials relating to folk music and Bregman's personal life.
Repository/Collector:
Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Includes scripts of Alliance broadcasts, 1925-1939 and 1945. The programs were broadcast from Richmond, New York, and Washington, DC and gave information on specific occupations and discussed vocational guidance issues. Additional records for the Alliance from 1947 to 1963 can be found in the Amber Arthur Warburton papers also located in the Manuscript Department.
Includes correspondence, notes, scripts, films and other items relating to Fisher's career in radio and in television news broadcasting. Online finding aid lists names and dates of scripts but not for what radio program.
Repository/Collector:
Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Includes an interview with Arthur Jackson, commonly known as Peg Leg Sam, an African American blues harmonica player and medicine show performer, about his experiences in show business, medicine shows, radio broadcasting and riding freight trains.
Repository/Collector:
Southern Folklife Collection, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Julian Price was a businessman, journalist, and civic leader. A native of Greensboro, NC, Price was the grandson of Jefferson Standard Insurance executive Julian Price (1867-1946). Price lived in Asheville, NC, from 1990 until his death in 2001, using his extensive wealth and philanthropic spirit to fuel a revitalization of Asheville’s downtown. Price was very interested in radio and print journalism, and recorded a number of interviews for broadcast on public radio stations. This collection contains over 50 cassette recordings of Price’s radio programs.
Content types:
Spoken word and Performed music
Formats:
Analog audiocassette, Optical disc (Including CD, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-R, DVD-RW, VCD), Text document, Photographic negative, Photographic print, and VHS (including SVHS and VHS-C)
Consists primarily of advertisements for various Liggett & Myers tobacco products such as Chesterfield, Fatima and Piedmont cigarettes, ca. 1910-1950s, as well as advertisements for competitors during the 1970s. Also includes scripts for radio and television commercials, 1949-1961.
Contains sound recordings of radio programs on issues related to the work of the Highlander Folk School, including labor issues with the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA).
Repository/Collector:
Southern Folklife Collection, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Contains correspondence and other files, including considerable material pertaining to radio productions at the university during the 1950s and a large number of scripts.
Repository/Collector:
University Archives, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Includes material that documents three advertising agencies : D' Arey Masius Benton & Bowles (DMB&B), Benton & Bowles (B&B), and D'Arcy-MacManus & Masius (D-MM). Most of the radio related material is in the "Clients Series, 1931-1985, n.d., bulk 1970-1980s, n.d." Includes material about the Maxwell House Radio Showboat, May, 1933, and six scripts about great composers broadcast on Prudential's The Family Hour, 1943.
Repository/Collector:
John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising and Marketing History
The Archives are organized into more than 45 separate collections, each with its own online finding aid that describes in very general terms the types of documents in the collection and which may or may not include radio related material. For example, the "Quaker Oats Account Files, 1945-1965, 1977" collection contains 3l Aunt Jemima reports, 1945-1965, 1977 but does not indicate whether radio is discussed in any of the reports . A complete list of the JWT finding aids is available at: http://scriptori um .lib.duke.edu/ dynaweb/findaids/
Repository/Collector:
John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising and Marketing History
Includes correspondence and printed material presenting the station's attempts to get favorable ratings and more power from the Federal Radio Commission for WPTF, the station owned by Durham Life.
Contains papers relating to Congressman Whitener's private and unofficial affairs, including press releases concerning the topics of his weekly radio programs, schedules of when programs were to be aired and some information about pay TV.
Contains subject files, appointment books, assignment notebooks, scripts, official press packs and other papers documenting more than 20 years of Benton's career at various divisions of CBS News.
Repository/Collector:
Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Papers dealing with Bernhardt's writings relating to country, old-time, bluegrass and gospel music, including Uncle Joe Johnson, a radio personality at WPAQ, Mount Airy, NC. The Uncle Joe Johnson materials include a magazine article written by Bernhardt for "Bluegrass Unlimited" about WPAQ and a number of photographs of Uncle Joe Johnson and others.
Repository/Collector:
Southern Folklife Collection, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Included in the large collection of Smith's papers and writings is the radio script for "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" and material regarding the musical version of the story.
Repository/Collector:
Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Contains reel-to reel recordings of Faier's disc jockey programs aired on KPFA, Berkeley, CA and WBAI, New York, including The Midnight Special on WBAI and an acetate recording of Dillybean Radio Spots.
Repository/Collector:
Southern Folklife Collection, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
The Audio Tape Series includes recordings of radio programs, interviews and readings related to Ortiz's activism. (In the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History & Culture.)
Includes sound recordings and related materials chiefly containing radio programs, 1958-1961 and n.d., hosted by Brooks and sponsored by the Hayward, CA chapter of the NAACP. The programs are mostly concerned with the status of African Americans in the mid-20th century.
Repository/Collector:
Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Contains about 100 items dealing with radio plays, including correspondence, copyright notices, playscripts and other materials, chiefly from the 1930s and 1940s. Some of the radio plays were written by Holman while others were edited by him. Many of the plays were used in the Forum of the Air series which aired in the late 1930s.
Repository/Collector:
Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Contains personal and professional papers of Carroll who was associated with the J. Walter Thompson Co. (JWT) and the development, writing and production of many radio programs, including Kraft Music Hall. Also contains material relating to his work as a ghost writer for Bob Hope and with the Office of War Information.
Repository/Collector:
John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising and Marketing History
Contains papers relating to Crutchfield's career, including his work at WBT, Charlotte, NC as a radio announcer, program director and general manager, as president of the Jefferson Pilot Broadcasting Company, 1965-1977, and also his career at CBS.
Repository/Collector:
Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The bulk of the items in the collection pertain to Kuralt's career between the 1970s and the 1990s and include scripts, publicity materials and a small amount of fan mail.
Repository/Collector:
Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
By far the bulk of the papers are Federal Trade Commission files. As an attorney-examiner with the FTC between 1941 and 1962, Gardner worked with cases involving alleged deceptive advertising practices in the print media and radio. Collection includes worksheets for 1948-1951 from the Division of Radio and Periodical Advertising.
A formerVice President of JWT, the majority of the collection focuses on JWT through short company histories and the establishment and growth of departments such as Broadcast and Radio. Also of interest is the Oral Interview Series.
Repository/Collector:
John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising and Marketing History
The collection consists of materials related to radio stations and television stations in the United States and Mexico, 1930-2005. Materials include program guides, radio playlists, station newsletters, promotional materials, newspaper and magazine articles, station-produced publications, correspondence, press releases, and about 56 press release photographs from KBBQ in Burbank, Calif. Some KBBQ photographs depict country music recording artists, including Lynn Anderson, Eddy Arnold, Glen Campbell, Jimmy Dean, Merle Haggard, Lee Hazlewood, Ferlin Husky, Waylon Jennings, Jerry Lee Lewis, George Lindsey, Roger Miller, Buck Owens, Ray Price, Jeannie C. Riley, Tex Ritter, Nancy Sinatra, Hank Thompson, Sheb Wooley, and Tammy Wynette; Hollywood tailor Nudie Cohn; and actor Andy Griffith. Station publications include about 150 issues of Stand By! from WLS in Chicago, Ill., from the 1930s and 1940s. There is also material relating to the Southern Baptists Radio-Television Commission.
Content types:
Sounds and Other
Formats:
Cylinder, Disc (Commercial, Homemade, Transcription), Reel-to-reel, 8-Track, Audiocassette, Film, Videotape, and Digital tape (DAT, DCC)
Extent:
There are 1900 items in the Radio and Television collection, but not all are recordings. There are also recordings housed outside the radio and television collection.
Documentation, sound recordings and a videotape relating chiefly to Morton's work with African American harmonica player Deford Bailey who performed on WSM's Grand Ole Opry.
Repository/Collector:
Southern Folklife Collection, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Extensive oral history of Dewey "Pigmeat" Markham, an African American performer. The oral history focuses on his career, his early work in medicine shows and carnivals and his later work on Broadway and on radio and television.
Repository/Collector:
Southern Folklife Collection, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Papers of country singer and guitarist turned band leader Glenn Thompson and his Dixie Playboys. The group appeared on a variety of radio stations, including WGH in Newport News, VA, WDLP, Panama City, FL and on the WDVA Barn Dance, WDVA, Danville, VA. Also includes papers and photographs relating to other performers who performed with Thompson on WDVA Barn Dance and at other venues. Audio recordings do not appear to be from radio programs.
Repository/Collector:
Southern Folklife Collection, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Consists of materials gathered by Meade in his study of traditional country music and Kentucky fiddlers. Contains about 50 radio items, including guides to radio programming, both weekly publications and local newspaper columns. The "Old Time Radio Programs" folder contains Meade's research notes and indicates the dates and times that programs aired on various stations. Finding aid lists specific radio stations.
Repository/Collector:
Southern Folklife Collection, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Includes transcript of a 1971 interview with Art Satherly, talent scout and recording executive for hillbilly and race record labels in the 1920s and 1930s, and interviews with Wilber Ball and Cliff Carlisle, early country musicians from Kentucky, about the early days of radio in Louisville, KY.
Repository/Collector:
Southern Folklife Collection, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Includes radio scripts and sound and video recordings documenting the careers of the Johnson Family Singers and Betty Johnson. Includes 158 scripts from WBT shows, Charlotte, NC, 1943-1965, in which the Johnson Family Singers performed and Larry Walker appeared on the Margaret Ann Show.
Repository/Collector:
Southern Folklife Collection, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Correspondence dealing with the Ledgerwood's Tennessee Fiddlers, a.k.a. the Ledgerwood-Harmison Old Time String Band, and the group's weekly broadcast on WKBN, Youngstown, OH, 1927-1930. Collection includes some sound recordings that do not appear to be from radio programs.
Repository/Collector:
Southern Folklife Collection, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
As an executive with JWT, Seymour's papers deal primarily with television but he was involved with the company's reorganization of its radio and television operations into a single Radio-Television Department as television emerged as the leading media in the United States in the 1950s.
Repository/Collector:
John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising and Marketing History
Contains diaries, correspondence, financial papers, photographs, printed materials and newsclippings related to MacKinnon's radio broadcasting and business career as well as his personal life. Some materials pertain to his work in New York where he founded WQXR, Armed Forces Master Records, Inc., the Armed Forces Radio Service and Radio Free Europe.
Includes papers and audio recordings of radio commercials for several companies. Hatcher was a copywriter and creative director for several major advertising agencies, including G.M. Basford Co., Benton & Bowles, Ogilvy, Benson, & Mather, Kenyon & Eckhardt, Batten, Barton, Durstine, & Osborn's San Francisco office, Mccann-Erickson and J. Walter Thompson .
Repository/Collector:
John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising and Marketing History
Emerson was the inventor of Bromo-Seltzer. The papers contain strategies for marketing the product, including sponsoring the Effervescent Hour that aired on numerous radio stations in the 1930s.
Repository/Collector:
Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill