Consists of manuscripts, clippings, correspondence, diaries, transcripts of radio discussions, scrapbooks and photographs relating to his work in agriculture.
Recordings of a San Francisco Bay Area independent radio news program from 1984-1987 covering labor issues with a primary focus on California. Includes numerous interviews with local labor leaders regarding significant strikes and labor struggles such as the historic Latina-led Watsonville Cannery Strike, United Farm Workers' (UFW) "Wrath of Grapes" campaign, and the month-long SEIU Local 250 Kaiser healthcare workers strike; as well as issues regarding AIDS, plant closures, and other workplace concerns.
Content types:
Spoken word
Formats:
Analog audiocassette and Digital audio file (including MP3, WAV, AIFF, etc.)
Extent:
27 audiocassette tapes
Repository/Collector:
Labor Archive and Research Center, J. Paul Leonard Library
An enlargement on a series of two broadcasts over the Smith-Douglass radio network, February 8 and 9, 1950, in answer to comments on the South by Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt in her column, "My Day."
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.
Radio files contain scripts for Green Valley, U.S.A., It's the Navy, The Long Way Home, Men, Machines, and Victory, On the Beam, First in the Air and various United Nations Radio and public service programs. Also contains sound recordings for several of the programs and some general correspondence concerning Lampell's wartime broadcasting for the Army Air Force.
Contains materials relating to Lansworth's career as a radio writer and author, including correspondence, 1943-1969, scripts, research notes, photographs, publicity materials and newspaper clippings for Murder Will Out and Whodunit?, 1940-1955. Also includes 21 sound recordings of Murder Will Out and other materials relating to Lansworth's career.
Radio program Latino USA began production by KUT and the Center for Mexican American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin in 1993. In 2010 production moved to the Futuro Media Group. Still produced by Maria Hinojosa and aired on NPR today, Latino USA presents stories on Latina/o history, culture, and current affairs.
Content types:
Performed music, Spoken word, and Sounds (Other than music & language)
Formats:
Analog audiocassette, Optical disc (including CD, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-R, DVD-RW, VCD), and Digital audio file (including MP3, WAV, AIFF, etc.)
Extent:
410 audio cassettes, 331 compact discs, and 133 Audio Files, plus unprocessed materials.
Includes scripts, production materials, outlines, synposes, research notes and treatments for many radio and television programs, 1940-1987, including the following radio programs: Duffy's Tavern, The Bob Hope Show, General Fuquas' Warcast, The Fred Allen Show, and The Joan Davis Show. Collection also includes other professional correspondence.
Includes correspondence and transcripts of Lazaron's sermons on many programs, 1926-1946, including Church of the Air, 1931-1939, Message of Israel, 1934-1946, Town Hall Meeting of the Air, 1938-1954, and Wheel of Life.
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.
Contains correspondence, publicity, etc. for a 39-week radio series which was prepared by Time Inc., sponsored by the University of Rochester and broadcast over WHAM.
Scripts adapted by Reade from Terence Rattigan's "The Winslow Boy" and Robert Louis Stevenson's "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" for the Theatre Guild on the Air. Collection includes two drafts of each script, including the final broadcast version.
Repository/Collector:
Temple University Libraries, Special Collections Research Center
Includes script and production materials for approximately 80 television series, 20 radio programs, and 10 motion pictures and teleplays. Unpublished finding aid.
Repository/Collector:
Arts Library, Special Collections, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
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 books, articles, scripts, including radio scripts, monologues and jokes written by Levenson. Also includes material written about him, as well as phonograph recordings, audio tapes, films, correspondence and memorabilia.
Consists mainly of scripts for radio and television programs written by Levy, 1933-1965, including the Ben Bernie Show, Bert Lahr Show, Duffy's Tavern and My Friend Irma.
Consists mainly of scripts, correspondence, notes, story lines and fan mail for many of the radio and television programs for which Lewis wrote. Also includes Lewis's subject files, general correspondence and materials relating to the Writers Guild of America, West. Lewis wrote for the following radio programs: Sparring Partners, Philco Hall of Fame, Jonathan Trimble, Esq., Behind the Mike and The Charlie McCarthy Show.
Interviews and live concerts by local and national bands, several commercial music recordings, selected Pacifica programming. Date range = 1950s-70s, with additional material from 80s + 90s
Contains about 3,000 books. Although the emphasis of the collection is on technical material relating to radio and television hardware, there is a considerable amount of material on radio and television programs and performers. Also houses a collection of audio cassettes of radio progrmas. Holdings are listed online.
Includes correspondence, manuscripts of books and articles, transcripts for lectures, addresses and radio broadcasts, including some sound recordings. Her career in radio included The Magic Key, Let's Talk It Over, Tales of Great Rivers, Column of Air and Prayers Through the Ages. Sergio was a news commentator on WQXR, NY and ABC.
Printed and duplicated reports on surveys of radio listeners, including a study on teenage listening habits and a "diary of radio listening" for a Radio Research project.
Repository/Collector:
University Archives, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Collection of 46 scripts for the program broadcast on WICC. The programs were extra-curricular productions that were written and acted by students of the Department of Drama, Yale University.
Raymond Loewy was born in Paris on November 5, 1893. He was the third son of Maximillian and Marie (Labalme) Loewy and grew up in a bourgeois household. As a boy, he developed an interest in transportation and machines. At age seventeen, Loewy enrolled in a pre-engineering school, an experience that prepared him for the technical aspects of an industrial design career.
Includes orchestral arrangements, sheet music, playbills, programs, personal papers, correspondence, photographs and memorabilia. Loftesness was an announcer and musicologist at KSOO, Sioux Falls, IA and did publicity for Fred Waring.
Includes photographs of radio programs and personalities. Contact the Museum for information about specific programs or people included in the collection.
Consists of material related to Pollock's career as a writer and includes various drafts of teleplays, screenplays, radio scripts, outlines and treatments for productions and correspondence files. Pollock was mistakenly blacklisted and later cleared.
Repository/Collector:
Arts Library, Special Collections, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
Papers document Weiller's radio career beginning in 1945 with WINN and include scripts for her program Lady Lookout, 1949-1953, a radio talk show log for 1946 and scripts for A Woman's Way aired on WAVE, 1956-1971.
Repository/Collector:
Archives & Special Collections, University of Louisville
A Congressman, author and poet, Patrick was also a radio personality for WAPI and WBRC. Collection includes unidentified radio scripts, 1932-1946, and five recordings, n.d., of the program Coffee With Congress.
Papers of a freelance writer of books, articles and radio scripts. The radio section contains correspondence and scripts for Cavalcade of America, The Court of Missing Heirs, The Eternal Light, Labor for Victory, The March of Time, Win the War and other programs and specials.
Contains mainly scripts for motion pictures, radio and television written by Raison along with treatments and outlines, 1937-1963, correspondence, 1944-1971, research notes and a scrapbook. Includes material for the Chase and Sanborn Hour.
Collection of this expert on the Soviet Union includes general correspondence, transcripts of hearings and remarks, newsclippings and scripts of his program Soviet Press and Periodicals aired on KPFA, Berkeley, CA.
Founded in 1995, by founder and former executive director Mark Sommer, the Mainstream Media Project (MMP) was a nonprofit public education organization focused on print and broadcast media about creative approaches in achieving peace, security, and sustainability in an interdependent global community. Until its closing in early 2014, it was particularly involved with placing top policy analysts, social innovators, and on-the-ground organizers on radio and television stations across the country and globe. One such project, A World of Possibilities radio show, founded in 2001, was an award-winning one hour weekly show hosted by Sommer. A program "of spirited global conversations," featuring interviews searching for understanding of, and solutions to, longstanding global public affairs challenges, A World of Possibilities was nationally and internationally syndicated until it ceased broadcasting in 2011. The MMP Records contain over ten linear feet of CD and DVD masters of uncut interviews and produced radio shows. Shows, including Heart of the Matter and A World of Possibilities, explore promising new thinking and experimentation in fields ranging from energy, food, water, and wilderness to human rights, global security, and public health, and include interviews with leading experts and innovators, such as Studs Terkel, Pete Seeger, Laurie Garrett, Wangari Maathai, Frances Moore Lappe, Howard Gardner, Lily Yeh, Robert Reich, Majora Carter, Van Jones and many more. The collection also contains MMP business files, consisting of correspondence, reports, articles, grant information, and organizational materials.
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
Correspondence, articles, clippings, printed material, photographs and other papers pertaining chiefly to McBride's career in journalism and radio. See separate collection of her radio broadcasts in the listings of Recorded Sound Division collections.
Includes scripts and some production information for the Ozzie and Harriet Show, 1946-1952, Suspense, 1946-1951, and television shows. Also includes a small amount of advertising spots and other radio, television and motion picture scripts. Additionally there is script material for an unproduced Orson Welles project.
Repository/Collector:
Arts Library, Special Collections, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
Consists of Wyler's files as head of the Seminary's Office of Public Information which became the Communications Department which was involved with the Seminary's radio programs. See also Record Group 8, Radio and Television Department, and Record Group 11, Communications Department.
Woods discusses his early days at Broadcasting Corporation of America and NBC, an administrative view of broadcasting, commercials, the division of NBC into two networks and the formation of ABC.
Contains the papers of Claire Warner ChurchiII Thompson, including radio scripts she wrote for WPA programs and papers relating to Soldiers of the Air, 1941-1942, a series of radio dramas for the Army Recruiting Service that were broadcast on KOIN.
Repository/Collector:
Special Collections and University Archives, University of Oregon
The Massachusetts Review is an independent quarterly of literature, the arts, and public affairs. Co-founded by Jules Chametzky and Sidney Kaplan in 1959 to promote eclectic, nontraditional, and underrepresented literary and intellectual talent, the Review has been an important venue for African American, Native American, and feminist writers and poets, mixing new and established authors. The records of the Massachusetts Review document the history and operations of the magazine from its founding to the present, including general correspondence and nearly complete editorial files for published works. The collection also includes a small number of audio recordings of MR2, a radio show hosted by Review editor David Lenson with interviews of writers, artists, and cultural critics.
Content types:
Sounds (Other than music & language), Spoken word, and Text
Formats:
Digital audio file (including MP3, WAV, AIFF, etc.)
Extent:
Five recordings of MR2, radio show on WMUA
Repository/Collector:
UMass Amherst Libraries, Special Collections & University Archives
Copies of commercial discs, test and unissued discs and radio transcription discs, ca. 1920s-l950s, accumulated from various sources by Nashville gospel music researcher Doug Seroff. Tapes consist of harmony selections, primarily religious songs, by a wide variety of Negro quartets.
News + public affairs shows (including coverage of Vietnam War protests + student takeover of campus administration building), freeform music shows, and "Film" and video interviews with former station workers. Additional documentation includes runs of station program guides. Dates pick up in 60s and run through 70s and beyond.
Content types:
Sounds and Other
Formats:
Disc (Commercial, Homemade, Transcription), Reel-to-reel, Audiocassette, Film, Videotape, Digital tape (DAT, DCC), and CD
Assorted recordings from 1930s to 1980s, including the following: Recordings of events at the University of South Carolina and Clemson University, 1970s; "Carolina Cares" public service announcements, 1970s-1980s; Entries for SCBA awards, 1970s-1980s; Charleston Folk Series, In the Tradition, and Straw in the Fire programs, 1980s; Episodes from classic radio dramas, 1930s-1960s (e.g., The Shadow, The Lone Ranger, Gunsmoke)
Content types:
Spoken word
Formats:
Open reel tape (unknown material) and Analog audiocassette
Extent:
525 items
Repository/Collector:
McKissick Museum, South Carolina Broadcasters Association Archives
A variety of print and audio collections related to the culture of the Jewish people. Also the home of the Chicago Jewish Archives. Check online catalog for specific radio related material.
Collection documents the history of WRNL and includes copies of newspaper articles, photographs and text tracing the history of the Richmond station founded in 1937. The station was the successor to WPHR, Petersburg, VA.
Includes transcripts, tape recordings and correspondence pertaining to The Words We Live By, a series of conversations on the Bible between Samuel and Mark Van Doren that were part of The Eternal Light. Also includes scripts and notes for other programs by and about Samuel that were broadcast on The Eternal Light.
Contains materials relating to Shane's work in radio, television and motion pictures and includes radio scripts for Big Town, 1939-1940, and the script for the World War II propaganda fiIm "We Refuse to Die" along with a script for the radio adaptation.
Martin Bookspan interviews American contemporary composer William Mayer. Mayer talks about his studies at Yale University with Herbert Baumgartner; about his career as a composer; about his work with pianist William Masselos; and about his son pianist Stephen Mayer. Speaking about the variety of music he composed, Mayer says that he prefers to write show music. He speaks about his work as a treasurer for CRI (Composers Recordings, Inc.). The composer discusses in detail each of the following works, excerpts of which are then played during the interview: Octagon (for piano and orchestra, fifth and seventh movements) (1971), Piano sonata (first movement) (1959) that he composed in twelve-tone technique, Two news items: Hastily formed contemporary music ensemble reveals origins (for soprano and instrumental ensemble), Brass quintet (1965), Messages (for flute, string trio, and percussion) (1973), and Two pastels for orchestra.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Contains correspondence and manuscripts, mostly dealing with Arizona history covering exploration, settlement, Native Americans, Rough Riders and journalism, and some material about SpanishAmerican War veterans and their organization.
Contains a condensation of the book read by McFee on WJZ, Newark, NJ on Sunday, December 24, 1922. Includes a printed notice of the broadcast which may have been sponsored by the United Fruit Company.
Repository/Collector:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University
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 and writings of John McGreevey. Includes scripts for Armstrong Theatre of Today, Cavalcade of America, Dr. Christian, Suspense, Arizana Adventures, Poe Presents, and Nick Carter, Master Detective. McGreevey was a writer and announcer for KTAR, Phoenix, AZ, 1948-1952.
Papers of a 4-H Club and conservation leader on the staff of the University of Wisconsin Extension Service. Includes mail pertaining to Afield With Ranger Mac, an educational program which McNeel conducted for WHA for 20 years.
Martin Bookspan interviews American composer and teacher Peter Mennin. Mennin talks about his life; about both of his careers: as the president of Juilliard School and as a symphonic composer; about his work with Juilliard Orchestra; about the future of both types of young contemporary composers: avant-garde and classical music composers. The composer discusses in detail each of the following works, excerpts of which are then played during the interview: Piano concerto (first movement) (1958), Symphony no. 7: Variation-symphony (for full orchestra) (1963-1964).
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Contains correspondence, legal papers, photographs, scrapbooks and some scripts relating to Meurer's work with George Trendle on The Lone Ranger, The Green Hornet and Sergeant Preston.
Contains papers, audio and video materials reflecting Mickelson's career as a broadcast executive, including nearly 20 years with CBS beginning in 1943.
Repository/Collector:
Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin
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.
Contains two pamphlets entitled "Farm Radio Programs: WEAI, 1930," published by the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University, and "Twenty Years of Broadcasting, 1925-1945, 1947," by Charles L. Taylor, a transcript of "Radio Station Development, Cornell University" by Elmer S. Phillips and bound volumes of Farm Radio Program quarterly issues, 1930-1944.
Martin Bookspan interviews American composer of contemporary classical music Robert Moevs. Moevs talks about his teachers, Walter Piston and Nadia Boulanger; about both of his careers, as a teacher at Harvard University and Rutgers University, and as a composer; and about his students. He discusses each of the following works, excerpts of which are then played during the interview: Attis (text by G. Catullus Veronensis) (1958), A brief mass (for chorus, organ, vibraphone, guitar, and double bass) (1968), Phoenix (for solo piano )(1971), Et occidentem illustra (Dante) (for chorus and orchestra, based on Divina commedia by Dante Alighier) (1964).
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center