Records of a major 1982 exhibition mounted by the National Museum of American History recounting Roosevelt's relationship with the American people through mass media, particularly radio broadcasting. Includes exhibition scripts documenting the early political years of Roosevelt and his presidency, especially emphasizing his skillful use of radio and the fireside chats during the 1930s and 1940s.
Recordings of performances from the Walnut Valley Festivals of 1981 and 1982. The annual Walnut Valley Festival in Winfield, KS features competitions and live performances of the world's foremost string instrumentalists and folk/bluegrass performers.
Sound recordings of Outdoors With Ed Dodd, weekly 15-minute programs that focused on conservation and human interaction with the natural world and included camping tips. The tone of the program is informal, usually consisting of a brief conversation between the show's host, Peter Roberts, and Ed Dodd, the creator of the Mark Trail comic strip. Occasionally there are identified guests. Also includes video taped interview with Dodd and a copy of a television program.
Audiocassettes contain radio spots, including advertisements prepared by Doak, Carrier & Associates; radio appearances particularly on WINA's "Talk Back" and recordings of various appearances at local events. Other local political figures recorded in these tapes include Paul Harris, Jane Maddux, Ed Robb, Al Weed, and Phyllis A. Whitney. One tape contains a campaign appearance by an unidentified candidate after Emily's death.
Content types:
Sounds and Other
Repository/Collector:
Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
NJ Council of Churches; WINS Radio Programs (1963-64); Radio WMCA (1966); UTS production: in cooperation with National Association of Radio (196?); WRVR broadcasts (1965)WOR Radio Programs (1963-65)
Broadcast archives of the WILL Radio's Focus 580, a public radio call-in talk program featuring interviews with newsmakers, subject matter and policy experts, authors, artists, and others addressing topics of public interest including politics, science, health, race, gender, LGBTQ, environment, education, history, literature, culture and the arts, and community life.
Content types:
Performed music, Spoken word, and Text
Formats:
Optical disc (including CD, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-R, DVD-RW, VCD), Analog audiocassette, Digital Audio Tape (DAT), Digital audio file (including MP3, WAV, AIFF, etc.), Data disk (floppy disk), and Text document
This is a live 13 hour broadcast (10 A. M.-11 P. M.) of the [7th] Wall to Wall at Symphony Space, celebrating Aaron Copland's 80th birthday, with a mix of Copland's compositions and other works by American composers; WNYC radio host was unidentified. Special guest appearences: Ruth Ford, John Ashbery, [Margaret Jory] (ASCAP), Maureen Stapleton, [Edward Albee], and Pearl Lang.
Content types:
Sounds
Formats:
CD
Extent:
12 recordings
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
In 1st work: Reginald Kell, clarinet ; [Zimbler Sinfonietta]. In 3rd and 5th works: Vienna Philharmonic Wind Group ; Roland Raupenstrauch, piano. In 6th work: Winifred Cecil, soprano ; Luigi Amodio, clarinet ; Alfredo Simonetto, piano. In 7th work: Reginald Kell, clarinet ; Louis Kentner, piano ; Anthony Pini, violoncello. In 8th work: Benny Goodman, clarinet ; New York Philharmonic ; John Barbirolli, conductor. David Randolph, host.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
In this 300th broadcast, David Randolph does away with his usual objective approach and "lets the listener hear what he likes and dislikes".--Container.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
In 1st work (version 1): [Orchestra of the] National Theatre ; Yuri Fayer, conductor. In 2nd work (1st work, version 2): Vienna State Opera [Orchestra] ; Herman Schercgen [i.e. Scherchen], conductor. In 3rd work (version 1): Vienna State Opera [Orchestra] ; Argeo Quadri, conductor. In 4th work (3rd work, version 2): Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra ; Antal Dorati, conductor. In 5th work (version 1): Pierre Bernac, baritone ; Robert Casadesus, piano. In 6th work (5th work, version 2): Walter [sic] Ludwig, baritone ; Michael Roheisen [i.e. Raucheisen], piano. In 7th work (version 1): Antonio Janigro, violoncello ; Carlo Zecchi, piano. In 8th work (7th work, version 2): Janos Starker, violoncello ; Abba Bogen [i.e. Bogin], piano. David Randolph, host ; with unidentified radio announcer.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
The collection consists of materials related to Smithsonian Institution programs, including the Duke Ellington Youth Project, in addition to gospel sheet music and related research materials from George's personal collection.
Content types:
Two-dimensional moving image, Performed music, Spoken word, Still image, and Text
Formats:
Analog audiocassette, VHS (including SVHS and VHS-C), Photographic print, and Text document
A professor of English at UMass Amherst, James A. Freeman is a scholar of seventeenth century British literature who has compiled an impressively eclectic array of publications and research projects. Educated at Amherst College (AB 1956) and the University of Minnesota (PhD 1968), Freeman joined the faculty in the English Department at UMass shortly after completing his doctorate. He has published on topics ranging from Latin and Greek poets to Shakespeare, Milton, Swift, Tennyson, James Agee, Donald Duck, 17th century regicides, and 1930s radio. He has also served as a regular contributor and editor for the Association for Gravestone Studies Quarterly. The Freeman collection consists of many hundreds of cassette tapes of radio broadcasts from the 1930s through early 1950s, reflecting the culture of commercial radio during its golden age. The collection includes representatives of most of the major genres, including comedy, drama, suspense and mystery, soap operas, and westerns. There is some depth popular programs such as Amos and Andy, the Great Gildersleeve, Philip Marlowe, and Nero Wolfe, but the collection also includes less common and short-lived shows.
Content types:
Spoken word
Formats:
Analog audiocassette
Extent:
27 linear feet
Repository/Collector:
UMass Amherst Libraries, Special Collections & University Archives
Contains material relating to Hildreth's career as a broadcast executive, including his position as founder and executive of the Hildreth Network which included WABI, WPOR and the Aroostook Broadcasting Company.
A tape from WMOT, Memphis, TN that includes 25 minute public radio modules of Count Basie memorabilia. See online finding aid for a list of the songs and performers.
Contains scripts written by Gaeta for television and radio commercials during the 1950s, especially for Mentholatum, but also for other products advertised by JWT.
Correspondence, scrapbooks, radio scripts, clippings and other papers relating chiefly to Riis's work as a journalist documenting the plight of urban slum dwellers in New York City.
Papers of the Catholic priest known as the "Father Coughlin of the South" who broadcast on The Pastor's Fireside on radio and television. Includes sound recordings and transcripts of Terminiello's memoirs plus letters, sermons, clippings and other papers.
Repository/Collector:
University of Notre Dame Archives, University of Notre Dame du Lac
Consists of manuscripts of novels, novelettes, short stories, articles, comic strip treatments, radio scripts and motion picture treatments. The correspondence relates mainly to Curry's professional and business affairs with some personal letters. Online finding aid lists titles of the radio scripts but not dates or the names of the programs.
Repository/Collector:
Special Collections and University Archives, University of Oregon
A Wisconsin broadcasting executive, the 1958-1969 portion of the collection includes correspondence and subject files relating to Bartell's personal business ventures in the field of radio and TV. Includes some unidentified sound recordings, possibly of Bartell's radio scripts, n.d.
Papers of an educational broadcaster associated with WHA and WHATV, Madison, WI, 1931-1968. Engel was an assistant director in charge of legislative and public relations. The collection deals exclusively with educational broadcasting and contains articles, clippings, surveys and reports. Most documentation concerns the development of WHA, particularly its early history. The balance deals with Engel's other activities in educational broadcasting with the Wisconsin Broadcasters Association, the National Association of FM Broadcasters, the University of Wisconsin Radio and Television Committee and other Wisconsin educational stations.
Consists of radio scripts of series produced by Bacher, sound recordings of Treasury Star Parade and various screenplays and treatments sent to Bacher but never produced. Also includes materials on Palmolive Beauty Box Theatre, Texaco Star Theatre, Maltine Story Hour, Maxwell House Showboat and Camel Caravan.
Repository/Collector:
Department of Special Collections, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
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
In addition to papers related to Dooley's career and personal life, the collection includes transcripts and tapes of That Free Men May Live, Dooley's weekly program on KMOX St. Louis.
Repository/Collector:
Western Historical Manuscript Collection, University of Missouri-St. Louis
Seventeen volumes of scripts, some written by Roy LaPlante, and aired on KYW, Philadelphia. Show was a weekly fifteen minute program narrated by school children. Collection also includes sound recordings of the same program, mostly 1944-1945 and one from 1948, and recordings of The World of Yesterday, The Crow and the Daylight, The Mouse Merchant and The Legend of the Willow Plate.
Repository/Collector:
Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Education Department, University of Pennsylvania
Consists mostly of post-1950 materials related to Williams's personal life and career as a writer, editor and journalist although there are some earlier papers, including correspondence, photographs and some material from 1959 dealing with WOY.
A strong opponent of Father Charles E. Coughlin, the audio visual series of the collection includes Ryan's address, "Roosevelt Safeguards America " in which he urged Catholics to repudiate Coughlin and support the New Deal and Roosevelt. The address was broadcast on national radio on October 8, 1936.
Repository/Collector:
American Catholic History Research Center and University Archives, Catholic University of America
The organization has a set of radio historian John Dunning's interviews of radio personalties (about 50+ interviews), approximately 100 scripts of mixed genre, including Escape, First Nighters, Gunsmoke and The Whistler, a collection of 1,200 16" transcription discs of mixed genre, including big bands, AFRS and World War II bond drives that are being transferred to CDs as of 2005 and a lending library of cassettes.
Consists of newspaper clippings, radio broadcast programs, reproductions of paintings, correspondence, diary entries, pamphlets and miscellaneous items related to Grover's career as a broadcaster and as an artist.
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.
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
Airchecks of local and national radio programming up to 1979 with emphasis on years 1955-1969. Archive includes news,sports,interviews,DJ airchecks, documentaries and specials.
Content types:
Performed music and Spoken word
Formats:
Optical disc (including CD, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-R, DVD-RW, VCD) and Analog audiocassette
Describes 27,000 broadcasts of news and public affairs programs, 1943-1971. The catalog is arranged chronologically by date of broadcast and thereunder by program series, title, keyword or personal name reference.
Repository/Collector:
Motion Picture, Sound, and Video Unit (Special Media Archives Services Division)
A combination store and museum, the collection includes audio material, 1931-1955, two scripts from 1937, premiums, correspondence and other memorabilia. See website for store hours. Appointments to view collection can be made during off season.
In 1st work: Robert Casadesus, piano. In 2nd-3rd, 8th works: The Randolph Singers ; David Randolph, conductor. In 4th work: Rey de la Torre, guitar. In 5th work: Akademie Chor ; [Orchestra of the] Vienna State Opera ; Hermann Scherchen, conductor. In 6th work: Rolf Persinger, viola ; Stradivari [Records] Chamber Music Ensemble. In 7th work: Pro Musica Antiqua ; Safford Cape, conductor. David Randolph, host ; with unidentified radio announcer.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Consists of anti-semitic, anti-Afro American and extreme rightwing political and religious booklets, pamphlets, and periodicals. Includes material by Southern religious fundamentalist radio preachers and other groups.
Repository/Collector:
Department of Special Collections, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
Consists of scripts, programs and clippings. Includes scripts for "The World of Carl Sandberg," "The Charter in the Saucer," "Lust for Life," and "The Golden Door." Also includes a hardbound copy of the "The Plot to Overthrow Christmas" and an acting edition of "The Rivalry."
Repository/Collector:
Department of Special Collections, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
Interviews with Irving Hunter about early radio and country western music in Bangor in the 1930s. Includes an interview with musician Watie Akins about his employment with WLBZ, ca. 1930. Subjects covered include local and national programming, equipment used by the station, affiliations with different networks, technological advancements in radio and equipment, remote and delayed broadcasts, a discussion of performers, the process of making radio logs and more.
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.
Contains papers relating to Rabbi Feinberg's radio career, 1932-1972, including Message of Israel, 1937- 1969, Brotherhood Hour (broadcast in Canada), 1947, Grey Lib, 1972, and his career as the singer Anthony Frome on the Poet Prince on NBC, 1932-1935.
Digital images, with searchable database, for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955. Radio programs can be searched separately at http:// scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/adaccess/.
Repository/Collector:
John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising and Marketing History
An artificially created collection of information about client accounts held by JWT that provides information about the agency's management of client advertising campaigns. The collection includes account histories, research reports, memoranda, correspondence, printed material, clippings, brochures and pamphlets, product labels and packaging designs. Additionally, the files document deliberations about such topics as media selection, markets and target audience for individual advertising campaigns. The largest account files are those relating to Chesebrough-Pond's, Inc., the General Cigar Company, the Andrew Jergens Company, Oneida Limited, Pan American World Airways, Standard Brands, Inc. and the United States Playing Card Company. The online finding aid lists other clients. The only radio program specifically mentioned in the finding aid is the Chase and Sanborn Hour, 1929-1943, although radio material could be included in other client history materials.
Repository/Collector:
John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising and Marketing History
Bound volumes containing approximately 2,000 scripts and related correspondence for radio and television programs for which Ace wrote. Most of the radio scripts are for Easy Aces, 1928-1945. Also includes radio scripts for the Danny Kaye Show. As of 2005, an additional unprocessed collection of glass recordings is being transferred to the MBRS Division.
Contains papers relating to Ackley's career with KSO and KRNT, Des Moines owned by the Iowa Broadcasting Co. Ackely was a newscaster and master of ceremonies for special programming, transcriptionist and music director. Includes scripts, ephemera, a scrapbook and photographs.
Consists primarily of reports and supporting research materials collected for a study on the proposed merger of several performers' unions affiliated with the Associated Actors and Artists of America. The unions were: Actors' Equity Association (AEA), American Guild of Radio Artists (AGRA), American Federation of Variety Artists (AGVA), Television Authority (TVA), American Guild of Musical Artists (AGMA) and Chorus Equity Association (CEA).
Reports and clippings relating to the Council's use of radio. Also contains Radio/TV Fact Sheets, 1946-1971, with background information on major Ad Council campaigns. Material is located in more than one collection.
Repository/Collector:
Rare Book & Special Collections Library, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Adam Lüders speaks with Kyra Lynn Kaptzan about his early dance training at the Royal Danish Ballet School; Stanley Williams and other teachers; his apprenticeship at the Royal Danish Ballet, including performing in works such as Flemming Flindt's Swan lake and John Cranko's The lady and the fool; performing in George Balanchine's Don Quixote; leaving the Royal Danish Ballet to join the London Festival Ballet; the repertoire of the London Festival Ballet; coming to New York City at the suggestion of Peter Martins and Peter Schaufuss; joining New York City Ballet in 1975; his roles at City Ballet, including in Balanchine's Brahms-Schoenberg quartet, Agon, and Kammermusik no. 2; working with Jerome Robbins, including in Robbins' work Goldberg variations and Dances at a gathering; his favorite ballets, including Balanchine's Four temperaments, Agon, and Theme and variations; his coming performances with the Royal Danish Ballet, in New York City; leisure activities.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center