Transcripts of radio speeches given over WNYC pertaining to the history and government of the City of New York starting on January 13, 1930 through June 24, 1937.
Contains correspondence, radio and television scripts, clippings and other material in scrapbooks. Includes materials relating to The Goldbergs, House of Glass and Mrs. G Goes to College. See unpublished finding aid for more information.
The Frank Page Collection contains publications, newspaper clippings, photographs, postcards, and other memorabilia mostly about the Louisiana Hayride artists.
Content types:
Still image, Text, and Performed music
Formats:
Photographic print, Text document, Pressed 78rpm disc, and Pressed 45rpm disc
Extent:
3 linear feet
Repository/Collector:
Noel Memorial Library, Northwest Louisiana Archives at LSUS
Collection of approximately 125 photographs, many of which show radio characters from the 1930s in costumes depicting their radio personas. There are also interior shots of the radio stations showing studios equipped with grand pianos and showing the sound effects man with various instruments to create sound effects. Also included are photographs of broadcasting equipment and station transmitters. Photos may include WOW, Omaha and KOIL, Lincoln, NE.
Includes portraits of Scott, his various bands and his work and other entertainers at WDAY. Includes photographs of Lawrence Welk, Pat Kelly, Laura Campbell and Don Roseland.
Includes audio recordings and scripts for New York Philharmonic radio programs, l 940s-ca.1980, letters from listeners, 1951-1956, program notes, press releases and other papers relating to fund raising, radio membership and the radio programs.
The station records of WLBZ begin in 1931, and consists mostly of station logs (1931-1956). Also included are some audio tapes and materials concerning licensing and operations
Content types:
Spoken word, Still Image, Text, and Performed music
Formats:
Pressed 78rpm disc, Pressed 45rpm disc, Open reel tape (unknown material), Analog audiocassette, and Digital audio file (including MP3, WAV, AIFF, etc.)
Extent:
30 Boxes/36 Linear Feet (including paper archives)
Papers consist of agriculture related materials produced or collected by Kadderly during his work overseas as a farm broadcaster on the radio and newsclippings announcing his departure from KOAC in 1933.
Contains production material, including scripts and phonograph recordings, relating to Corwin's work as a writer for stage, screen and radio, 1937-1967.
The Leo Reisman collection contains primarily private acetate disc recordings of Reisman's radio performances of the 1930's, as well as Reisman's personal collection of commercial 78 rpm discs. Included among the noncommercial recordings are extensive holdings of his Philip Morris Show and Schaefer's nine o'clock revue appearances. Less complete holdings for Lucky Strike's your hit parade are also included. The commercial disc collection is comprised mostly of Reisman's commercially released recordings, as well as a small number of other artists' recordings
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
809 recordings
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Radio and TV scripts, correspondence, newsclips, publicity materials, photographs, 90 reels of TV film, and sound recording. Radio dramatist, joined production staff of NBC in 1930. Wrote One Man's Family, 1932-1959, I Love a Mystery, 1939-1944, and other programs.
From 1932 to the mid-1940s, Paul Rhymer's "Vic and Sade" was one of the more popular and critically acclaimed afternoon radio shows in all America. Rhymer (1905-1964) grew up in Bloomington, attended Illinois Wesleyan University, and wrote for The Pantagraph before moving to Chicago and enjoying tremendous success in the radio business. The collection includes 51 episodes from the years from 1932 to 1944.
Content types:
Spoken word
Formats:
Optical disc (including CD, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-R, DVD-RW, VCD) and Analog audiocassette
Includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, concert programs, 1945-l966, and other memorabilia of the Mandolin Club of Newark. The group performed on WORAM, 1932-1933, and later on WGCP. Much of material is in German.
Contains radio broadcast recordings, studio acetates, and performance recordings collected by Paskman of his works. Included are transcription recordings of the radio program Paramount movie parade (1933-1934); two recordings of live performances of Robert Stolz' Two hearts in 3/4 time, for which Paskman wrote the lyrics; and a live recording of the premiere performance of Halloween, a musical work with narration by Paskman. Also included is an interview with Paskman conducted by Albert Brush under the auspices of the Beverly Hills Public Library, which was broadcast over radio station KPMC (Beverly Hills, CA), December 4, 1940.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
30 recordings
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Contains radio broadcast recordings, studio acetates, and performance recordings collected by Paskman of his works. Included are transcription recordings of the radio program Paramount movie parade (1933-1934); two recordings of live performances of Robert Stolz' Two hearts in 3/4 time, for which Paskman wrote the lyrics; and a live recording of the premiere performance of Halloween, a musical work with narration by Paskman. Also included is an interview with Paskman conducted by Albert Brush under the auspices of the Beverly Hills Public Library, which was broadcast over radio station KPMC (Beverly Hills, CA), December 4, 1940.
Content types:
Sounds
Formats:
Disc (Commercial, Homemade, Transcription)
Extent:
30 recordings
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
The Metropolitan Opera has been one of the world's premiere opera companies for well over a century. Its series of live Saturday matinee radio broadcasts began in 1931, featuring host Milton Cross. The Metropolitan Opera radio scripts date from 1933 to 1974, and hold Milton Cross's writings and correspondence in addition to scripts.
Content types:
Other
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
The Packard collection includes approximately 2,500 discs created, produced, commissioned, or collected by Frederick C. Packard, Jr., during the years 1933-1963. The collection forms part of the Woodberry Poetry Room. While it does not contain a complete inventory of his work, the collection features substantial numbers of discs from all stages of the recording and production process, and constitutes the single-largest aggregate of his recordings of spoken literature. In addition to the discs he created for publication, the materials include rare outtakes; original recordings never reproduced or intended for commercial release; Harvard-related language lessons, lectures, sermons, theatrical, radio, and musical performances; and the voices of Harvard students and professors recorded in his role as Professor of Public Speaking. The collection also features listening copies that Packard (and Woodberry Poetry Room curator John Lincoln Sweeney) created based on exchanges he arranged with the Library of Congress, the British Broadcasting Corporation, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and Radio Éireann.
Content types:
Performed music and Spoken word
Formats:
Lacquer disc, Pressed LP disc, and Metal disc
Extent:
30 linear feet (90 boxes of discs, 17 boxes of original sleeves, and additional ephemera)
Includes manuscripts, notes, programs, schedules, correspondence and reports. The records document efforts to assemble information needed for a history of the station and a critique of its programming as part of the Federal Writres' Project. There is no evidence that the draft manuscript was ever published.
Includes photographs, clippings, correspondence, press releases and memorabilia relating to Latin American politics and to CBS radio broadcasting in Latin America.
Clippings from American newspapers relating to American foreign and domestic policy during the New Deal and reflecting conservative criticism of that policy. Includes pamphlets issued by the American Liberty League, 1935-1936, and texts of broadcasts of the Ford Sunday Evening Hour, 1936-1940.
Includes news dispatches, broadcast transcripts, pamphlets, clippings, serial issues and other printed matter relating to political and social conditions in Spain and to the Spanish Civil War.
Consists of rehearsal, demo, and master recordings made by Green of motion picture soundtracks, television and radio broadcasts, and concert performances. Includes sound recordings made by others in which Green is featured. Also includes copies of motion pictures and television broadcasts that relate to Green's career.
Content types:
Performed music, Spoken word, and Two-dimensional moving image
Formats:
Open reel tape (unknown material), Analog audiocassette, U-matic (including U-matic S), and Motion picture film
Contains sound recordings, original music manuscripts and published sheet music, handwritten notes, correspondence, business records, photographs, scrapbooks, newsclippings, concert programs, posters, pamphlets, books and other ephemera. See online finding aid for list of radio broadcast material.
The Milo Ryan / CBS Radio News Phonoarchive is a unique audio time capsule that documents many historic 20th century events. It consists of sound recordings of CBS Radio News programs, public affairs shows, actualities, speeches, interviews, wartime dramas, daily World War II news updates. The recordings capture groundbreaking broadcasts by Edward R. Murrow and his "Boys": William L. Shirer, Eric Sevareid, Tom Grandin, Larry LeSueur, Charles Collingwood, Howard K. Smith, Winston Burdett, Bill Downs, Mary Marvin Breckinridge, Cecil Brown, and Richard C. Hottelet. The collection also includes recordings of programs and speeches made by public figures during and beyond WW II, including Churchill, Eisenhower, Einstein, Hitler, and JFK. As Dr. Donald Godfrey writes in his 1973 article "History Held a Microphone": "There are twenty-two hundred and twenty-seven newscasts. All but a handful originating from CBS. Their newscasts represent every weekday without a miss, from September 7, 1939, with the Germans entering Poland, to April 2, 1945, with the allies entering Germany.... Tapes contain examples of special events coverage: the Japanese attack of Pearl Harbor, the bombing of Japan, landings in North Africa, the 13 Normandy Invasion, the World Security Conference, April, 1945, the function of the American and Russian Armies, April, 1945, the death and funeral of FDR, and miles of tape on V. E. and V.J. days. Elmer Davis' daily five minute reports are represented in entirety from his debut, September 16, 1939, to February 13, 1941, and occasionally to July 9, 1943. H. V. Kaltenbom edits the news, complete from August 27, 1939, until January 26, 1940, and sporadically thereafter. Our library includes 21 speeches by Winston Churchill, representing 12 hours of this master of language. There are 51 talks by President Roosevelt totaling 24 continuous hours." A detailed description of most of the recordings in the Phonoarchive is available in Milo Ryan's book History in Sound (UW Press).
Content types:
Performed music and Spoken word
Formats:
Acetate open reel tape, Digital audio file (including MP3, WAV, AIFF, etc.), Photographic print, and Text document
Contains several types of records documenting the activities of WNYC, including administrative files, 1948-1981, public relations files, 1967-1983, publications, 1938-1984, awards and plaques, 1949-1979, LaGuardia broadcasts, 1944-1945, and six phonodisks and scrapbooks, 1926-1971.
Several individual collections that include scripts, sound recordings, scrapbooks, special program announcements, annual reports and a subject file that contains general correspondence, reports, studies, publications, personnel files and legal documents.
Repository/Collector:
University Archives, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
The WPA Radio Scripts consist of final drafts of radio plays and other texts produced by the Federal Theatre of the Air. Most scripts are from either the New York or Los Angeles offices of the Federal Theatre Project. In some instances copies of scripts for the same program but from different jurisdictions are included in the same series. Notable programs represented in the collection include adaptations of the plays of Henrik Ibsen and Oscar Wilde, operettas by Gilbert & Sullivan, a series called A CAPELLA IN BRONZE featuring the WPA Negro Radio Chorus and focusing on stories of particular interest to African-Americans, adaptations of books such as Dickens' PICKWICK PAPERS and plays such as Tolstoy's REDEMPTION, Goldsmith's SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER and Molière's TARTUFFE. A 1939 series celebrating Jazz entitled THE STORY OF SWING devoted episodes to Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, and the Dorsey Brothers. TURNING POINTS IN FAMOUS LIVES dramatized key moments in the lives of John Paul Jones, Sarah Bernhardt, Louis Pasteur, Isaac Newton, Billy the Kid, Joseph Stalin, and others. THE LIVING NEWSPAPER, adapted from a concurrent Federal Theatre Project stage series, dramatized contemporary problems facing listeners in daily life.
Content types:
Other
Extent:
73 boxes
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Contains radio scripts designed to sway public opinion during World War II and the post World War II era, including Our Secret Weapon with Rex Stout as the "lie detective" debunking Axis propaganda, Freedom House Forum and Pride and Prejudice, a forum for representatives of different races and religions to discuss issues of prejudice.
Repository/Collector:
Princeton University Libraries, Rare Books and Special Collections