Consists of materials that are primarily visual in nature and portray approximately 1,700 musicians and musical groups, including Billy Carlin, Paul Whiteman, Anne Shirley, the WIOD Orchestra, Rudy Vallee and Eddie Cantor.
Repository/Collector:
Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin
Contains virtually complete documentation of her professional writing career, including radio plays, 1922-1947, and a transcript of a radio talk, 1947. See online finding aid for details.
Repository/Collector:
Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin
Contains personal and business records. Belding was the founder of Foote, Cone and Belding Advertising Agency. Includes some unidentified radio scripts and other radio related material.
Repository/Collector:
Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University
Includes editorials, political files, political campaign materials, movie promotions, business correspondence and radio station policy books. Also includes sound recordings of programs, jingles, soundtracks, music, historical recordings, interviews, editorials, soundtracks, movie promotions, easy listening music, documentaries and advertisements. McLendon started KLIF, Dallas and began the Liberty Broadcasting System, an independent affiliation that encompassed over 400 radio stations during its five years of operation. He was also the voice of the "Old Scotsman" broadcasting sports events and during the 1950s he developed the top 40 format.
Repository/Collector:
Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University
Includes papers relating to Formby's ownership of numerous radio stations in Texas, including KPAN in Hereford, KFLD in Floydada, KTVE in Tulia, KSML in Seminole, KACT in Andrews and KLVT in Levelland.
Repository/Collector:
Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University
Papers and audio tapes relating to Toscanini and the NBC Symphony. Tapes (approximately 500 10" reels) include a complete set of tapes for Toscanini: The Man Behind the Legend, including the Toscanini Centennial Series, 1961-1967, interview tapes recorded for the show and tapes of a few rehearsals. Papers include guest lists, scripts, correspondence, station lists, publicity materials, etc. Gillis was a producer at NBC during the Toscanini era.
Repository/Collector:
University of North Texas Music Library, University of North Texas
Contains 130,000 78rpms, principally jazz and popular music, dating from the earliest days of recorded music to the 1950s. Includes thousands of radio transcription discs. Access to collection is by the Rigler and Deutsch Record Index.
Repository/Collector:
University of North Texas Music Library, University of North Texas
Contains manuscripts of radio lectures on mathematics, mathematicians and the solar system by Kent and others which were aired on WTAW, College Station, TX, 1945-1950.
Papers include the order of events for the radio program that covered the ceremony decommissioning and recommissioning the battleship into the Texas Navy, April 11-June 11, 1948, and transcripts of speeches.
Contains 135 transcripts of broadcasts made by the Governor, 1939-1941, most of which were regular weekly Sunday morning half hour programs and some special events. Weekly programs were usually religion based and family oriented although he also discussed legislative and social issues. Also includes some papers relating to the broadcasts.
Bryson was a broadcaster with KTSM, El Paso, TX, 1936-1954, and later a TV news anchor. Collection includes radio scripts for several programs, including Fort Bliss Centennial, Pathfinders of Medicine, 25th Anniversary, Magoffin, Gifts of the Season, El Paso Pays Tribute, Master of Music, Over SW Trails, Voice of El Paso, Southern Union Gas Co. Industry at the Pass of the North, Men of Vision, Through the Years, Farm Reporter and other special programs.
Repository/Collector:
C.L. Sonnichsen Library Special Collections Department, University of Texas-El Paso
Personal and professional papers of a military historian and commentator, including transcripts of radio broadcasts, 1940-1942, some 1951 and others after 1965. Program dates are listed but not names of programs.
Repository/Collector:
C.L. Sonnichsen Library Special Collections Department, University of Texas-El Paso
Papers trace Fernandez's career from her early days in radio to her work in television and movie productions, through to her retirement in 1982 and subsequent activities. The collection consists of scrapbooks, photographs, honors and awards, the bulk of which are in the form of plaques.
Repository/Collector:
Library, Special Collections, University of Texas-San Antonio
Contains manuscripts, including some unidentified radio scripts, research notes and other materials documenting Texas history and folklore. The Woolfords promoted the Witte Museum in San Antonio through a radio variety show in the 1930s.
Repository/Collector:
Library, Special Collections, University of Texas-San Antonio
Contains correspondence, printed material and photographs relating to Jolley's career as a county agriculture agent, including his work on KRLD, 1953-1967.
Repository/Collector:
Willis Library Special Collections, University of North Texas
The center maintains a collection of oral histories, photographs and manuscripts related to Austin personalities, history and business. To check whether any of the collections include material relating to radio, users can submit an online query.