Contains various, but limited, material about some of the radio shows sponsored by General Mills, 1930s-1950s. The partially processed collection includes some scripts (the program titles are listed individually in the Index), audio recordings, photographs and newsletter articles.
Includes a series of KUOM scripts, November, 1950-March, 1953, probably related to the Minnesota Chippewa or Ojibwa Indians, and other papers relating to Mudgett's work dealing with the Chippewa Indian culture.
Repository/Collector:
Archives & Special Collections, University of Louisville
Includes material for a Caddie Woodlawn memorial program broadcast in February, 1940 on the Idaho State University radio station dealing with the adventures of growing up on the Wisconsin frontier in the 1860s.
Repository/Collector:
Children's Literature Research Collection, University of Minnesota
Contains biographical information, personal correspondence, materials pertaining to Ukrainian American organizations and cultural activities and historical material on Ukraine and Ukrainians in America, including a program booklet of the Third Annual Ukrainian Radio Day held on August 29, 1948 in Pittsburgh, PA.
Repository/Collector:
Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota
Nurczynski arranged music for the Shep Nolan Band and Krakowiaki who played live on the Echoes of Poland. Papers consist primarily of published and mimeographed sheet music. Mainly in Polish with some English material. See also Walter and Valeria Nurczynski Collection below.
Repository/Collector:
Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota
Includes a publicity kit issued by American Relief for Italy, Inc. in 1947 containing radio spots, proclamations, editorial announcements and a fact sheet about the organization's activities.
Repository/Collector:
Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota
Contains correspondence, memorabilia, newspaper clippings, speeches, scrapbooks and files on various organizations to which Dundurs belonged, including those related to the Latvian American community. Some time after 1951, Dundurs worked as a radio talk show host. Check with repository to determine if papers cover his radio career.
Repository/Collector:
Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota
Contains personal and church related papers and sheet music, including concert leaflets and programs commemorating the Slovenian Radio Hour in Pueblo City, CO. Some of the materials are in Slovenian.
Repository/Collector:
Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota
Consists of correspondence, minutes, newspaper clippings, reports, newsletters and miscellany pertaining to the Service Bureau for Intercultural Education, including materials related to Americans All, Immigrants All.
Repository/Collector:
Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota
Clippings in the collection pertain to Quilici's anti-fascist radio work and to the movemenet to erase General Italio Balbo's name from Chicago streets and parks.
Repository/Collector:
Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota
Contains correspondence and published items, newspaper clippings on fascism, socialism and World War I, photographs, pamphlets, cartoons and caricatures by Fort Velona and materials pertaining to Arturo Giovannitti and New York politicians. Valenti also worked for the Italian American station WHAY in Connecticut. Check with repository to determine if papers cover his radio career.
Repository/Collector:
Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota
Papers reflect Jaskolski's involvement with the Polish Variety Hour and Voice of America. Also includes materials pertaining to many Polish American organizations in the Boston area.
Repository/Collector:
Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota
Contains biographical material, personal correspondence, materials relating to his legal and literary careers and civic and political activities, miscellany, photographs, newspaper clippings, ephemera, scripts of radio broadcasts, speeches, lectures, short stories and book manuscripts.
Repository/Collector:
Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota
Komichak worked as engineer and assistant manager for WPIT-AM and FM, Pittsburgh, PA and was director of Ukrainian radio programming. Papers are in Ukranian and English.
Repository/Collector:
Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota
Contains tape recordings, slides, newspaper clippings, correspondence and financial records relating to Rasins's Latvian American broadcasting and other Latvian American community activities in Colorado Springs, CO and the Twin Cities, MN.
Repository/Collector:
Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota
Records of a national organization composed of many Polish American fraternal, social, cultural, professional, veteran and other similar organizations. Collection includes many press releases, papers relating to a special commission dealing with radio and television issues and a radio address commemorating the fifth anniversary of the invasion of Poland.
Repository/Collector:
Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota
Contains both personal papers and organizational records and includes correspondence, minutes, reports, publications, scripts, newspaper clippings, listener aids, research files and phonograph records from Americans All, Immigrants All for which DuBois served as consultant, 1938-1939.
Repository/Collector:
Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota
Consists of correspondence, newspaper clippings, sheet music (mostly of songs sung by Valeria), radio scripts, and financial reports of the Polish War Relief Committee of Boston, ca. 1944. From 1937-1944 Nurczynski produced Echoes of Poland. Also includes correspondence and photographs of Alexandra J. Jaskolski and papers of Karol Jaskolski.
Repository/Collector:
Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota
Contain biographical information, postcards, newspaper clippings and correspondence, much relating to the Ukrainian community and including material on the Ukrainian Family on Radio and other radio announcements.
Repository/Collector:
Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota
Contains materials relating to all aspects of Sherlock Holmes in different media, including a log of Sherlock Holmes on radio, 316 Edith Meiser radio scripts, 154 sound recordings of the broadcasts on 33 1/3 rpm and 16" transcription discs and much more. A print guide to the collection, "Edith Meiser and Her Adventures with Sherlock Holmes: A Guide to the Edith Meiser Collection at the University of Minnesota," is available from the Department of Special Collections for $10.
Repository/Collector:
Special Collections and Rare Books, University of Minnesota
Includes scripts for a series of programs, 1933, produced by KSTP, to celebrate the 22nd anniversary of the founding of the Camp Fire Girls. A folder list with additional information about this collection is available in the repository.
Includes scripts Ueland wrote for the following radio shows: the Anne Herrold Program, a radio news program broadcast in Minneapolis, March 11-May 28, 1936, Tell Me More, a program that featured Ueland's answers to listeners' personal problems, June-July, 1942, and Stories for Girl Heroes, a children's program that profiled notable women.
Includes typed copies of talks on heredity and eugenics presented over various radio stations, 1928 and 1933, and correspondence regarding talks on WRHM, 1933-1934.
Includes material on radio advertising, possibly for Adlerika, a laxative and a treatment for appendicitis, Adla tablets for stomach ailments, Daru liver pills and Vino!, a vitamin tonic. An inventory that provides additional information about these materials is available in the repository.
A sound recording of the program aired on WDGY, Minneapolis, MN. Broadcast live from Don Leary's Record and Radio Store in Minneapolis, the show featured records produced on the Continental label.
A sound recording of an interview with Dr. Albert J. Chesley, secretary and executive officer of the Minnesota State Board of Health on Public Health Is People broadcast on KSTP, May 19, 1955.
Includes papers relating to Franey's involvement with the WLOL radio and WTCN television show Sportsmen's Roundtable, 1947-1959, and other papers documenting his career as a journalist, conservationist and leader of the Izaak Walton League of America (IWLA).
Two dismantled scrapbooks, 1906-1942 and n.d., containing correspondence, programs and newspaper clippings relating to her career as a pianist and her work as an accompanist on WCCO, 1923-1925.
Contains correspondence, reports, minutes, clippings, financial records and radio and television scripts relating to Satterlee's life and work, mainly 1941-1961, with women's clubs and dealing with consumer affairs.
Sound recording of the Housewives Protective League program broadcast on July 11, 1956 on WCCO featuring Juergen Nash and Tom Swain, Executive Director of the Minnesota Statehood Centennial Commission, discussing the goals and plans for the centennial celebration, including the roles of women in the celebration.
Typescript of "Radio Forty Two Years Ago" written by the spouse of Rudy Hilgedick who was instrumental in building Duluth's first radio station, WJAP. The reminiscence is centered on the first broadcast of a Christmas midnight mass, December 25, 1922. Topics include a description of the studio, the station's range, listening devices used at the time and the use of volunteer performers and staff. Several excerpts from cards and letters received from listeners throughout the U.S. after the broadcast are also included.
Includes papers relating to the Murphy family's ownership of radio stations, possibly the Murphy Broadcasting Company. Check inventory in repository for additional information.
A microfilm edition of earlier scrapbooks, 1928-1952, containing biographical sketches, photographs and poems of members of the League compiled in 1952. Included on the microfilm is a volume entitled "Minnesota Centennial Poetry: History with Music on Radio" consisting of scripts for a series of 13 radio programs presented in 1949.
Sound recording produced by Robert C. Bruce in 1991 in which he chronicles his 50 years as an actor, writer, producer and director in radio, television and motion pictures.
Advertising proofs, brochures, booklets, catalogs and photographs documenting work done for more than 130 different companies headquartered mainly in Minneapolis and St. Paul, MN that were clients of this Minneapolis advertising agency. An inventory with additional information is available in the repository.
Sound recording and scripts, written by Charles Sarjeant, of the official Minnesota statehood centennial radio broadcasts dramatizing 100 years of Minnesota progress and the future aired on WCCO in 1958.
The Library contains several individual collections of Minnesota political figures, many of which include some print and audio material relating to radio addresses delivered by the individuals. Check online catalog by name.
Scrapbook (compiler unknown) of clippings concerning Twin Cities radio stations and personalities including both network and local stations. Contains programming information for WCCO and KSTP. Annotations sometimes give information on subsequent careers of persons pictured.
Script for broadcast over KSTP on December 15, 1937 for Minneapolis United, an organization of Minneapolis businessmen, discussing the problems of businesses in Minneapolis in 1937.
Includes an audio tape of Twin City Roundtable, January 16, 1955, featuring the club which was established in 1947 to foster friendship and understanding among individuals of different racial, cultural and religious backgrounds.
Includes scripts for the CKFI, Fort Frances, Ontario program Rainy Lake Legends based on stories by I.W. Hinckley and other authors about the Rainy Lake region and Fort Frances, ON.
Transcripts of Hitchcock's radio speeches on the progress and problems of the 1935 Minnesota legislative session of which he was a member from St. Louis County.
Contains correspondence, newspaper clippings, speeches, news releases and unpublished manuscripts relating to McGovern's career on KSTP as a journalist and public relations manager.
Contains correspondence, speeches, newspaper clippings, genealogical materials and audio material relating to Rishworth's career in radio education and broadcasting and as the first educational director of a commercial radio station in the U.S. Rishworth also appeared as Uncle Tom on KSTP in the 1930s and worked in radio in Texas and Oregon in the 1950s.
Contains papers relating to Tedesco's ownership and management of 12 radio stations, including KCHY, Cheyenne, WY and the Northern States Broadcasting Corporation of the Black Hills, Rapid City, SD.
Disassembled scrapbook of a Minneapolis metal dealer and junk yard operator who served as a special assistant in the Minneapolis regional office of the War Production Board during World War II. The scrapbook contains letters, press releases, scripts of radio spot announcements, clippings, speeches, advertisements and other material documenting publicity for a 1943 salvage campaign in Minnesota and the Dakotas known as the Farm Scrap Program.
Includes radio scripts, outlines and other notes for Moritz's weekly Christian program, Good News Broadcast, which was broadcast over KMHL, Marshall, MN during the 1950s plus information on other radio broadcasting, 1949-1956.