KBOO’s analog audio archive includes almost 7,500 items of radio programming in 5, 7, 10″ open reel, CDs, cassettes, DATs, and minidiscs format. KBOO Community Radio went on the air in June of 1968, and radio program recordings date from the late 1940s. This is a collection created from institutional records. This collection is unprocessed. Our archives include Oregon artists Ken Kesey, Ursula LeGuin, Gus Van Sant, political figures such as Kent Ford, and Winona LaDuke, as well as hundreds of poets, hundreds of artists, and hundreds of activists, both recorded lectures, panels, conferences, and street actions. We also have significant live music recordings from Doc Watson to Elliot Smith.
Content types:
Text, Spoken word, Performed music, and Sounds
Formats:
Optical disc (including CD, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-R, DVD-RW, VCD), MiniDisc, Analog audiocassette, Digital Audio Tape, Open reel tape (unknown material), Digital audio file (including MP3, WAV, AIFF, etc.), and Text document
Extent:
Numbers are estimates, as some labeled items are bundled and dates were not recorded for all items. 7600 individual items: 1,361 10" open reel (1947-2001), 1,865 7" open reel (1948-1969), 99 5" open reel, 1,500 cassettes (1948-2008), 112 digital audio tapes (1969-2004), 217 minidiscs (1969-2004), 2,433 optical discs (1967-2013).
Collection comprises 135 15-minute episodes of Freedom Story, a radio program produced by Spiritual Mobilization, Inc., from 1951 to 1956. The programs feature dramatizations on conservative and libertarian themes and commentary.
Content types:
Spoken word
Formats:
Analog audiocassette and Digital audio file (including MP3, WAV, AIFF, etc.)
Extent:
135 digital audio files
Repository/Collector:
University of Oregon Special Collections and University Archives
Compilation of 31 cassettes of numerous short advertisements for local, regional and national companies which aired on Portland area stations. Includes spots for the Oregon Shakespearean Festival, 1959, Blitz-Weinhard Brewing Co. and the U.S. National Bank.
Twentyeight cassettes of different programs, including a promotional spot for a performance by the United States Air Force Band at the Astoria Armory, the Douglas Grader Show broadcast from the Clatsop County Fair and a number of commercials for various Astoria area merchants, including Garcia Ford, Bjorklund's and the Owl Drug Store.
Compilation of 50 discs containing educational programs produced under the auspices of the Portland Public Schools as well as programming produced by KGW or released from other affiliates. Programs include The American Challenge, a U.S. history series, Their Name was Courage, historical dramas about Washington state, Bill Scott, Forest Ranger, a conservation program sponsored by the U.S. Forest Service, live coverage of the 1941 Benson High School dance and a drama from Reed College, 1939.
Collection of 25 recordings containing local and national news programs (NBC and ABC), including World War II and Korean War news and the historical series Mr. President. Local programs include the sports news program Radio Box Score and the country music program Neath Western Skies.
Collection of 150 discs containing local and national programs on World War II and the early Cold War. Highlights include: D-Day invasion news, a translation of a Hitler speech from Danzig, live coverage of an atomic bomb detonation, speeches by presidents Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower, British prime minister Winston Churchill and New York governor Thomas Dewey. National entertainment programs include soap operas such as Lora Lawton and musical variety shows. Local highlights include Roosevelt's speech from Bremerton, WA, local news programs, Mayor Earl Riley's blackout order for Portland following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, coverage of the last run of the Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway's train to Seaside, OR, educational programs such as Reading is Fun and the local variety show, Grandpappy and Pals.
Collection of 400 discs containing local and national news programs (CBS), including reports on World War II, the Korean War and the Cold War as well as the speeches of Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Winston Churchill and others. Local programs include documentaries on the Tillamook Burn, 1943 and 1953, live reports on Kaiser shipyard launchings, 1941-1945, reports on the Vanport Flood, 1948, the Northwest Neighbors talk show, the historical drama "Song of the Columbia," the award-winning documentary on African-American physician Dr. Charles Drew entitled "Who Killed Dr. Drew," Kid Critics, featuring Portland area grade school children reviewing books, Pacific Power and Light and Northwest Electric commercials, 1941-1947, and a live concert with Jane Powell from Portland's South Park Blocks.
Three audio cassettes of numerous short public service announcements which aired on Portland area stations. Includes spots for the Oregon Junior Symphony, 1958, the Odd Fellows, 1970, and the Oregon State Game Commission.