Contains correspondence and manuscripts, including drafts, typescripts, notes, photographs, mimeographed scripts and printed materials relating to Hall's plays, radio and television scripts, short stories and novels.
Repository/Collector:
Rare Book and Manuscript Collections, Butler Library
Letters about the formation of the Committee on Award of the Marconi Memorial Medal. The medal was to have been awarded annually for contributions to radio and David Sarnoff had been chosen as the first recipient but the Committee was dissolved as a result of a disagreement with the policies of the Italian government and the medal was never awarded.
Repository/Collector:
Rare Book and Manuscript Collections, Butler Library
Contains correspondence and manuscripts consisting of letters, poems, short stories, novels, plays, broadcast transcripts for Invitation to Learning and other papers.
Repository/Collector:
Rare Book and Manuscript Collections, Butler Library
Includes 501 scripts for the Claudia series plus sound recordings of some of the programs, scrapbook clippings and an audio tape interview of Franken (with typescript transcripts) conducted by her grandnephew, David Korr, in October, 1977.
Repository/Collector:
Rare Book and Manuscript Collections, Butler Library
Consists chiefly of correspondence and production files relating to the creation, production and performance of their works for stage, screen, radio and television.
Repository/Collector:
Rare Book and Manuscript Collections, Butler Library
Clippings from the "Hartford Courant" and "Boston Post" describing the hurricane of September 22, 1938, including accounts of a group of amateur radio enthusiasts who relayed vital orders to mobilize national guardsmen, open roads to isolated communities and sent messages to worried relatives of victims.
A news release for the program relating to literary awards of 1949. Includes remarks of Edgar T. Rigg on the presentation of the award to Robert Frost.
Papers relating to his studies of ants as pets and his invention of the ant farm. Some of the papers are radio scripts for broadcasts over NBC, March-June, 1938.
Contains scripts for radio plays and dramatic readings, 1936-1938, and news broadcasts, 1949-1955, by noted journalists and writers, including Stephen Vincent Benet, Norman Lewis Corwin, Cedric Foster, Fulton Lewis, Edward R. Murrow, and William N. Robson.
The Sarnoff Collection at TCNJ includes artifacts related to David Sarnoff's life; RCA, NBC, Victor Talking Machine Company, and Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of America; the history of radio, television, broadcasting, audio and video recording and reproduction, electron microscopy, radar, vacuum tubes, transistors, solid-state physics, semiconductors, lasers, liquid-crystal displays, integrated circuits, microprocessors, computers, communications satellites, and other technologies RCA played an important role in inventing and developing; and some of the many people, beside Sarnoff, who made these technologies work.
Contains materials on a variety of musical topics, including files on Johnny Mercer and his contemporaries, country music, various aspects of radio and television and several miscellaneous topics relating to twentieth century music and/or the music business.
Repository/Collector:
Georgia State University Special Collections and Archives
Contains papers of Johnny and Ginger Mercer and related materials, including audio recordings, sheet music, scripts, scrapbooks, correspondence, photographs, business records, lyrics, clippings and autobiographical materials.
Repository/Collector:
Georgia State University Special Collections and Archives
Eighteen transcriptions of The Happy Two broadcast over WAGA, Atlanta, GA from May-September of 1948. The program featured performers Shorty Bradford and Lee Roy Abernathy.
Repository/Collector:
Georgia State University Special Collections and Archives
Includes biographical information, correspondence, manuscripts, scrapbooks, some sound recordings and other papers focusing primarily on Mercer's career in film, radio and theater.
Repository/Collector:
Georgia State University Special Collections and Archives
Consists of commercial and non-commercial sound recordings of tunes, songs, music, radio shows and dictated letters by Mercer and his friends, colleagues, collaborators and fans. Some recordings contain interviews, dictated letters, and other non-musical material.
Repository/Collector:
Georgia State University Special Collections and Archives
Contains correspondence, photographs, memorabilia, secondary material about Crosby, materials from Crosby societies and fan clubs and an extensive collection of sound recordings of Crosby radio programs, including The Bing Crosby Show, 1949-1954, Kraft Music Hall, 1943-1946, Minute Maid Fresh Squeezed Orange Juice, 1949-1950, Philco Radio Time, 1946-1949 and miscellaneous programs, 1936-1960.
Repository/Collector:
Gonzaga University Archives and Special Collections
Bulk of the collection is correspondence concerning rights to a Traven story adapted for radio and television by Ted Allan, a playwright who worked for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
Includes manuscripts, cassette tapes and transcripts of interviews of Muni, photographs, programs, clippings, letters (mostly copies), scripts and articles relating to Muni's life and career. For collection details relating to radio check preliminary list in repository.
Belohlavek founded the Slovak Radio Circle aired on WJBK and later WJLB in Detroit, MI in the 1940s and hosted a half hour program sponsored by the General Stefanik Society. Papers contain a limited amount of material on the Slovak Radio Circle, including meeting minutes, membership lists, reports and correspondence. Included is a 1947 letter informing the of the cancellation of programs such as theirs that bought time from the station and then sold portions of it to individual advertisers. There are also angry letters and a petition denouncing the discontinuance of foreign language programming by the Circle's subsequent broadcasting station, WJLB, in 1948. Approximately 90% of the collection is in Slovak with the majority of documents in English being newsclippings.
Contains photographs of exhibitions sponsored by groups like the Philadelphia Electric Co. and the Electrical Association of Philadelphia that displayed a variety of electrical appliances including model homes, lighting, radios and phonographs. The collection includes documents relating to radio broadcasts.
Papers document Stanton's private life and radio and film activities as they relate to Ireland and the Irish-American community, including his career as an announcer at WIAD where he created the Irish Hour and his later ownership of WJMJ. Includes correspondence, speeches, radio scripts, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, certificates, photographs and a large amount of material on Irish history and culture.
An assemblage of materials collected by Hiteshew which document Irish music in Philadelphia. The materials include the personal papers of area musicians and broadcasters such as Thomas Caulfield, Seamus McGill, Owen B. Hunt and William Regan as well as scripts, sheet music, scrap books and phonograph records. The collection also contains a quantity of printed ephemera such as flyers, posters and programs from events sponsored by area musical organizations, including the Irish Musician's Union and fraternal organizations such as the Donegal Society, the Ancient Order of Hibernians and the Galway Society. Within the Hiteshew Collection, personal papers are grouped under individuals' names.
Contains papers related to Regan's career as a broadcaster in Philadelphia, including correspondence, clippings, printed materials, a scrapbook, uncataloged photographs and sound recordings.
Contains 69 transcription discs, 1941, 1947 and 1950, of the Hoosier Hop broadcast on WOWO, Ft. Wayne, IN. Also contains photographs, publicity materials and songbooks.
Contains papers, including scripts for the Hoagy Carmichael Show, 1945, and Columbia Broadcasting System Presents Hoagy Carmichael, 1947-1948, memorabilia and sound recordings.
Includes biographical material, scripts of Homemaker's Half-Hour, 1945-1964, and other papers. Sunderlin was also the host of the children's program, Storybook Lady, later changed to The Children's Corner, broadcast on WOI, 1940-1958. She was also associated with the Radio Child Study Club program.
Contains correspondence, addresses, reports, newspaper clippings, printed material and other papers relating to his career as head of the Farm Department of WHO, Des Moines, 1936-1970.
Consists of manuscripts, clippings, correspondence, diaries, transcripts of radio discussions, scrapbooks and photographs relating to his work in agriculture.
Contains scripts from programs, mostly Homemaker's Half Hour, which were broadcast over WOI and sponsored by the University's Textiles and Clothing Dept. (Program titles for the other scripts are not indicated.) The programs focused on dressmaking, general fabric care and laundry tips. Most of the bound scripts come with a title page listing the author/speaker and title(s) of the speech. (In University Archives)
Includes correspondence, reports, radio talks, 1948-1971, memoranda, minutes, teaching notes, lectures, biographical information, photographs and other papers. Bulk of material relates to agricultural and home economics extension work in Iowa and food production during World Wars I and II.
Consists of correspondence, printed matter, farm market related news broadcasts, market research data, surveys and related papers involving his broadcasts on WOI which were heard on 26 additional stations.
An assorted collection of sound recordings of programs dealing with Jewish culture and history, including entertainment, news, religious programs and public affairs. Recordings can be listened to in the Museum.
Includes autographs and photographs of Bailey, a country music and bluegrass performer on WSM's Grand Ole Opry and other radio programs in Tennessee, North Carolina and West Virginia.
Consists of autograph albums with material created in response to Emrich's appearance on NBC Weekend. No transcript or recording of the broadcast has been located.
Consists of sound recordings, film footage, photographs and accompanying manuscript documentation on two widely publicized expeditions to Oceania and Indonesia in 1940 and 1941 that documented music and dance in the South Sea islands. Includes a copy of the NBC Blue Network program broadcast live from Suva, Fiji by the Fahnestock expedition on August 19, 1940.
Collection of Yiddish radio broadcasts on transcription discs and audio tape; plus sheet music, manuscripts and photographs documenting Yiddish culture, theater, and music, primarily in the New York City area, but also including documentation from other parts of the United States, from the 1920s to circa 1960, collected by Henry Sapoznik. Manuscripts include correspondence, manuscript music, photocopies, and other material.
Comprised mostly of reel-to-reel audio tape and scripts (about 500) of Read's recordings of both original "Brer Rabbit" stories and stories he wrote based on the characters. The recordings were broadcast by radio stations nationwide. Subject files contain correspondence, contracts, marketing materials, artwork and newspaper articles related to the broadcasts. Also includes phonograph records of background music and sound effects used in the shows.
Repository/Collector:
Noel Memorial Library, Northwest Louisiana Archives at LSUS
Transcript includes a discussion of Sims's work at WJBO, Baton Rouge, LA before and after World War II and his association with station owner Charles Manship, Sr.
Repository/Collector:
Noel Memorial Library, Northwest Louisiana Archives at LSUS
Includes scrapbooks, 1948-1965, with photographs, newspaper clippings, correspondence and ephemera related to The Register, the radio and television broadcasts hosted by the paper's publisher, Orene Muse (Mrs. Elton Huckabay) in the 1940s-1950s.
Repository/Collector:
Noel Memorial Library, Northwest Louisiana Archives at LSUS
Includes radio scripts and cover letters signed by Wade O. Martin relating to the sesquicentennial observance and history of the Louisiana Purchase. The scripts include manuscript annotations by Martin.
Repository/Collector:
Noel Memorial Library, Northwest Louisiana Archives at LSUS
Contains correspondence related to Coquille's work as an entertainer on radio and stage, including notes and scripts, 1936-1956, and audio cassettes. Also contains newspaper clippings, programs, advertisements and other papers. Access restricted until 2024.
Repository/Collector:
Noel Memorial Library, Northwest Louisiana Archives at LSUS
Records include production logs, 1945-1946, radio scripts, 1942-1952 and n.d., radio scrapbook poems, 1948-1953, and miscellaneous reports, news releases, surveys and other materials.
Includes minutes of meetings, financial transactions, correspondence and station and contest logs. One bound volume contains early logs for WKAR, 1924, and W8SH, 1927-1931, as well as minutes of meetings, 1932-1936, a list of operators, 1927-1936, treasurer's reports, 1933, and vibration experiment notes, 1925. The records also include two boxes of QSL or "Radio Contact Cards," 1927-1950, arranged alphabetically by state and city. Certificates and commemorative QSL cards, 1929-1986, are filed separately.
A private collection of broadcasts of sporting events, including many regular season and World Series baseball games dating back to 1933, regular season and Bowl football games dating back to around 1935, basketball games, auto racing, including a few Indy 500s, many boxing matches dating back to 1936, a limited pre-1960 golf collection and some event highlights such as horse racing, mainly Kentucky Derbys dating back to the mid-1930s, and several NHL hockey games and highlights dating back to 1945.
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.