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.
Includes script for a 1941 WJDX Memorial Day radio broadcast, "A Page from the Past," that was presented by the W. D. Holder Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
Consists of correspondence, printed materials, social papers, a scrapbook of photographs, newspaper clippings and other papers relating to his career which included his role as chairman of the Federal Radio Commission and the first chairman of the FCC.
Consists of bound volumes of scripts, both rough drafts and typescripts of actual broadcasts, for Magnolia Sketches broadcast over WJDX, Jackson prepared under the WPA Federal Writers' Project. The topics covered include historical sketches of towns in Mississippi, famous personalities in the state, anecdotes, stories of industry and business from early days to the time of the broadcasts and other historical material. The material was prepared and delivered by Dickson.
Includes scripts for Orchids to You written by Harkins, a Jackson florist. Each script contains biographical information on a citizen of Jackson or the surrounding territory.
Contains papers relating to the company's early involvement in radio and television broadcasting in Mississippi, including the establishment of Mississippi's first network radio station, WJDX, in 1929.
Includes a list of the first licensed stations in Mississippi, a list of the existing AM and FM stations in Mississippi showing location, date first licensed and changes in call letters, 1924-1936, program logs of WPFB, March 17 and September 2, 1932, and WROB, October 18, 1947, and studio log and meter readings for station WRBJ, 1931.
Contains a variety of materials, including compositions, correspondence, military records, newsclippings, oral history transcripts, photographs, political campaign ephemera and memorabilia, printed material, public relations material, scrapbooks, slides, sound recordings, speeches, subject files and miscellany. May contain information relating to Pittman's role as president of Tylertown Broadcasting Company and general manager of WTYL AM-FM.
Miscellaneous papers, consisting primarily of programs and articles written by and concerning Still, an African American composer. Includes a copy of Still's own manuscript of the song "Mississippi" composed for the Sound Off program and first presented on that program over the ABC network, July 26, 1948.
Contains 747 recordings, mostly on reel-to-reel tape, of off-air recordings of popular radio programs. Mixed genres. Program titles and some broadcast dates and performer information is available in an inhouse catalog.
Contains 449 transcription discs featuring local St. Louis productions and CBS network feed programming, including CBS News Analysis, Columbia Country Journal, Hedda Hopper's Hollywood, Marvels Cigarettes-Viewing the News, News of Europe, People's Platform, Goldbergs and World Today.
Includes correspondence, financial records, subject files, printed materials, yearbooks, clippings and legal documents relating to Craney's career as a pioneer in Montana radio broadcasting, founder of the Pacific Northwest Broadcasting and owner of the radio stations with the "XL" call letters in Spokane, Portland, Butte, Bozeman and Missoula and the Z Bar network.
The Museum has a collection of 85,000 hours of television and radio programming, including 4,000 radio programs. The web site maintains an online searchable database and the staff of the Museum's archives also responds to research requests.
The Museum maintains a large audio collection of radio programs that can be listened to on site. Program holdings cannot be searched online but the research staff will respond to individual queries. The New York City location maintains the main archive. If a program is not available in the Beverly Hills site, a researcher can request that it be dubbed in New York and sent to California. See the Addendum for an additional collection dealing with broadcasts of boxing matches.
The vast majority of the collection is the full contents of the Leo Sarkisian Music Library transferred from the Voice of America in Washington, D.C. to the University of Michigan for preservation, teaching, and research use. The media library supported Sarkisian’s research and recording career at VOA (1963-2012) and served as the principal analog audio resources for the production of the Music Time in Africa radio show. The collection also includes personal papers and memorabilia from Leo Sarkisian and his wife Mary. New materials in digital form are added to the collection as tape recordings and personal papers are digitized.
Content types:
Performed music, Still image, and Text
Formats:
Pressed LP disc, Pressed 45rpm disc, Optical disc (including CD, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-R, DVD-RW, VCD), Analog audiocassette, Polyester open reel tape, Acetate open reel tape, Digital audio file (including MP3, WAV, AIFF, etc.), Photographic negative, and Text document