Consists of over 10,000 broadcast quality audio recordings of vintage radio news and entertainment programming, 1920s-1961, on reelto-reel tapes, metal and vinyl discs and electronic transcriptions from studio masters. Includes episodes from most of the major radio series of that era as well as historic radio news broadcasts. An inventory for a portion of the collection can be made available to researchers.
Chiefly articles and lecture notes, mostly in English with a few in cursive Yiddish, and some printed press releases. Does not appear to contain any information related to Frank's employment as an announcer for The Voice of Israel, 1958-1961. See finding aid for more information.
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.
Contains papers relating to Sullivan's involvement with the production of Blue and Gray, Fall, 1946-May 26, 1951 and Radio Forum from its origins in 1946. Includes scripts and correspondence. Both programs were coordinated by the campus radio station WGTB and WARL, Arlington, VA.
An audition recording for the children's program Sleepy Joe meant to explain and justify the show to potential sponsors. Also includes Program #4 of These Are Americans, February 19, 1944, hosted by Chet Huntley, and a Blue Coal Minstrels program, n.d.
Check online catalog for listings of individual programs featuring or about African American performers or themes. Includes several episodes of Destination Freedom and a few Chicago Roundtable of the Air broadcasts.
Contains correspondence, literary manuscripts, articles, addresses, radio scripts, clippings, scrapbooks and other papers consisting primarily of manuscripts for Terhune's short stories and articles which relate chiefly to dogs.
Correspondence, radio broadcast transcripts and obituaries chiefly concerning Sweetser's interest in psychoanalysis and his efforts to secure funding for the psychoanalytic movement from the Rockefeller Foundation.
Correspondence, speeches, broadcast scripts, book draft, biographical material, newsclippings and photographs documenting Rash's career in broadcast journalism.
Primarily entertainment programs of the 1930s and 1940s with a few news programs and documentaries. Programs include: Adventures of Ellery Queen, Brave New World, City Hospital, Doorway to Life, Haunted House, Lux Summer Theater, Open Hearing, Pursuit of Happiness, Report to the Nation and Showboat.
Contains some 250,000 play scripts, including many little known radio scripts, some of which are being microfilmed. Scripts that have been retained in paper form include: The Goldbergs, Lone Ranger, Marx Brothers, Tarzan, Five Star Theatre, Amos 'n' Andy (1940s) and others.
Correspondence, writings, scripts, contracts, clippings and guest lists relating particularly to Information Please produced by Golenpaul for radio and television and to his subsequent publication, "Information Please Almanac."
Correspondence, autobiographical memoir, speeches and writings, business papers, clippings and scrapbooks relating primarily to Kobak's work with McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, NBC and MBS, the early years of radio and television broadcasting and to his expertise in the field of public relations and communications.
Correspondence, publicity material, scrapbooks, memoranda, research notes, speeches, articles, drafts of books, lists, surveys, reports, printed matter, photographs and other material documenting Bernays's career as a pioneer in the field of public relations and the development of that profession and its influence on American society. Includes material on Bernay's work for the radio broadcasting industry.
Includes correspondence, fan mail, radio and television scripts, news analyses, lectures, speeches, writings, book and subject files, awards, newspaper clippings, printed matter, photographs and other papers but primarily consisting of scripts of Sevareid's radio and television news broadcasts and analyses documenting his career with CBS from World War II until his retirement from CBS News in 1977.
Correspondence, transcripts of radio broadcasts and other papers pertaining primarily to Reichelderfer's career in meteorology as chief of the U.S. Weather Bureau, 1938-1963.
Correspondence, memoranda, speeches, magazine articles poetry, reports, radio broadcast transcripts and other paper chiefly documenting Farrell's career from 1945-1975, including his career as a commentator for various stations and networks from 1948-1969.
Radio scripts and broadcasts for Town Hall Tonight, The Chesterfield Supper Club, Jack Benny Show, Bing Crosby Show, Bob Hope Show, Henry Morgan Show and The Big Show.
Correspondence, articles, biographies, date books, diaries, radio scripts, histories and speeches documenting Allen's career as editor of "Harper's Magazine," director of the Foreign Policy Association, author of many popular works on American social history and an overseer of Harvard University.
Scripts span the years 1932-1949 and include: The Adventures of the Thin Man, 1944-1945, The Adventures of Topper, 1945, As the Twig Is Bent, 1941-1942, Don Winslow, 1941-1942, House of Mystery, September 1945-March 1949, July-August 1949, Juvenile Jury 1947-1949, Kate Hopkins, Angel of Mercy, October, 1940-January, 1942, February, 1942, Maxwell House Show Boat, October, 1932-January, 1935, May, 1935-September, 1937, Portia Faces Life, 1940-1944, The Raymond Scott Show, n.d., The Second Mrs. Burton, 1941-1942, We Love and Learn, 1944, When A Girl Marries, 1941-1942, A Woman of America, 1944, and Young Dr. Malone, December, 1939-October,1940, February, 1941-March, 1942. Scripts include commericals and occasionally production records, including cast lists, plot synopses, sound effects, music clearances, rehearsal sheets and the script editing circuit.
Correspondence, diary, biographical material, writings, drafts of various articles, notes, speeches and radio broadcasts, newspaper clippings and printed matter relating mainly to Eliot's career as a contributor to magazines.
Correspondence, memoranda, reports, speeches, writings, financial records, research notes, awards, printed matter and photographs documenting Denny's career. Part II of the collection documents Denny's role as moderator, 1935-1952, of America's Town Meeting of the Air.
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.
Includes correspondence, memoranda, interview transcripts, drafts of speeches, articles, books, notes, radio broadcasts, legal material, research material, family papers, press releases, printed material, posters, maps and other papers relating primarily to Smith's career.
Includes family papers and productions and projects file documenting Cronyn and Tandy's stage, screen and television performances together and separately and Cronyn's directorial and theatrical production activities. Does not contain any radio material.
Correspondence, memoranda, notebooks and notes, transcripts of interviews, radio and television scripts and other papers documenting Levine's career as a broadcast journalist and news commentator.
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.
Correspondence, transcripts of radio broadcasts and other papers relating to Papanek's years in the U.S. as representative of the Czechoslovak government in exile during World War II and to his service in the United Nations, 1945-1948.
Correspondence and papers and a photograph pertaining to his career as a sports columnist and as a panelist on the radio and television show, Information Please.
Correspondence, speeches, radio scripts, clippings of Balderston 's newspaper articles and photograph of Balderston relating to his career as journalist and playwright.
Chiefly material relating to Meet the Press, including letters, 1957-1968, from viewers, radio and television scripts, 1945-1970, newspaper clippings, 1945-1973, and lists of program broadcasts, 1945-1969. See listing in Recorded Sound section for audio recordings of the programs.
Correspondence, diaries, memoranda, articles, lectures, writings, transcripts of broadcasts, subject files, business and financial records, biographical material, appointment books, newspaper clippings and other papers documenting Bryson's public relations career and his role in developing educational radio and television programs for CBS. Includes material on Department X, a committee organized by Bryson at the request of CBS president William S. Paley to examine issues relating to global changes in politics, economics, science, technology, public opinion and social and government policy in the future.
Correspondence, diaries, drafts and galleys of playscripts for radio, screen and stage, poems, songs and fiction and nonfiction books and other papers relating chiefly to Kantor's literary career.
Scripts used in First Nighter and Talkie Picture Time programs. Written under Hale's maiden name, Margaret Halliwell, in collaboration with Dorothy de Jagers, Beatrice M. Gottlieb, Hilda Gottlieb, Jeanette I. Helm, Hal Field Leslie and Marion Waldman.
Correspondence, literary and biographical articles, radio scripts and plays, legal and financial papers, clippings, printed material, photographs and other papers.
Correspondence, radio, television and film scripts, writings, speeches, research material, notes, clippings, printed material, photographs and other papers concerning Agronsky's career as a radio and television journalist.
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.
Annotated typescripts and mimeographed copies of Adams's unpublished autobiography, other writings and notes for a proposed radio program with Homer Saint-Gaudens.
Correspondence, subject files, financial records, play and film scripts, radio and television broadcasting files, press releases, clippings, print and near-print material, scrapbooks and other records, chiefly 1924-1977, documenting the policies, organization, programs, activities and membership of the organization. Includes papers of MRA founder Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman.
Includes the committee's attempts to use radio to promote understanding of the implications of atomic energy in a nontechnical, easily understood form.
Autographed draft and corrected typescripts of Corwin's 1941 broadcast We Hold These Truths. Also includes An American in England, a series of plays given over the CBS network from New York City in December 1942.
Papers relating to the symposium Is Radio a Blessing or a Menace? Contributors include George Ade, Brooks Atkinson, M. H. Aylesworth, Gutzon Borglum, Ellis Parker Butler, James Branch Cabell, Sen. Arthur Capper, Irvin S. Cobb, Walter Damrosch, Benjamin De Casseres, Lee DeForest, Clarence C. Dill, W. N. Doak, James Montgomery Flagg, Daniel Frohman, Fannie Hurst, Joseph Jastrow, H. L. Mencken, George Jean Nathan, Eugene O'Neill, Gov. Gifford Pinchot, Charles Edward Russell, Upton Sinclair, Harry B. Smith, Sigmund Spaeth, Ernest Milmore Stires, Booth Tarkington, Samuel Untermyer, Carolyn Wells, William Allen White, Brand Whitlock, Owen Wister and Adolph Zukor.
Correspondence, memoranda, diaries, speeches, manuscripts of articles and books, notebooks, dispatches, releases, radio scripts, reports, reference files, pamphlets, promotional material, scrapbooks, clippings, memorabilia and photographs. Chiefly reference material pertaining to the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration and World War II.
Primarily scripts of Swing's radio broadcasts, including those presented on the Voice of America. Also includes correspondence, lectures, addresses, articles and other papers. See Recorded Sound section for audio recordings of Swing's broadcasts.
Correspondence, scripts, program listings and other material concerning Harshaw's programs Battle of Books, Carnival of Books and The Hobby Horse Presents.
Correspondence, legal proceedings, printed transcripts of radio and television broadcasts, scripts, memoranda, production inventories, office and business papers and newspaper clippings, chiefly 1941-1967. The radio papers relate primarily to American Forum of the Air, Youth Wants To Know, and All America Wants To Know.
Personal and official correspondence, diary, orders to duty, awards, citations, transcripts of radio broadcasts, memoranda and clippings relating to Wilkinson's duties as deputy commander, South Pacific area.
Contains correspondence, speeches and writings, lectures, business records, family papers, scripts, programs, playbills, publicity material, photographs and other papers relating to Price's career and other interests.
An extensive collection that includes material on the Radio Division. For more specific information see http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fedtp/fthome.html and for finding aid, http://hdl.loc.gov/1oc.music/eadmus.mu995001.
Repository/Collector:
Performing Arts Reading Room (Music Division), Library of Congress
Contains 300,000 16" and 12" transcription discs, 1942-1998 with a variety of programming. A partial inventory of pre-1959 16" discs is available. The 12" discs are cataloged in the LC online catalog where they are searchable by program title, genre, and in many cases performer name and song title.
A series of private, experimental and radio broadcast recordings made at Columbia University, principally during the 1930s. The Collection comprises a wide range of spoken arts, including documentaries, speeches, interviews and prose and poetry readings.
Includes more than 1,200 hours of interview programs and related broadcasts documenting all phases of McBride's radio career, 1935-1970s. See also separate collection of McBride's papers in the Manuscript Division.
Includes sound recordings and papers related to Walsh's career collecting, researching and writing about early popular recordings and recording artists. Includes correspondence with prominent artists and collectors, research notes, photographs of performers, scripts for Walsh's radio shows, drafts of his columns and articles, clippings, bound journals, advertisements, scrapbooks and ephemera. Series III of the collection includes scripts for Walsh's regular broadcasts on WDBJ and WSLS, Roanoke, VA. The majority of the scripts date from 1943-1949 and are for Walsh's Wax Works. Many of the scripts include separate playlists. Many of the programs showcased a particular recording artist or composer and an index to these shows is attached to the end of the finding aid. Also contains a few scripts for Walsh's Sunlight and Shadows show, 1947, 1948, and a folder of unidentified and partial scripts.
Scripts (some autographed by performers) and a photograph acquired by DeMartino while working backstage at CBS during the mid-1940s. Includes scripts for The Frank Sinatra Show, April 26 and December 4, 1944, Philip Morris Playhouse, January 27, February 11 and February 18, 1944, and Your Hit Parade, October 16, 1943, April 8, 1944 and August 25, 1945. The scripts include advertisements for sponsors.
Collection includes memoranda, correspondence, speeches, reports, policy statements and pamphlets covering the creation of the network, its growth in the field of radio and its subsequent expansion into television broadcasting. The materials span 1922-1986, but most date from the mid-1920s through the late 1940s. Additional files include: Topical folders, 1922-1986 (649 folders); Advertisers, 1927-1961 (38 folders); Personnel and organizations, 1926-1980 (88 folders); Committees, councils, and internal organizations, 1923-1973 (122 folders); Board of directors, 1926-1956 (100 folders); Network affiliates, 1923-1983 (44 folders); General reports, 1930-1936 (67 folders); Annual reports, 1932-1959 (6 folders); Programs, subject lists, schedules, samples, 1931-1972 (126 folders); Speeches, 1923-1990 (63 folders); Programs, schedules, transcripts, and masterbooks, 1922-1979 (28 folders); Election news, 1962-1988 (55 folders); Consultant reports, 1947-1957 (14 folders); Pamphlets (566 folders)
Daily schedules that give the radio and television programming between 5:00pm-12:00am for the MBS, ABC, CBS, and NBC networks. Gives ratings for each program and sponsors when applicable. Includes weekly daytime programming schedules beginning in May, 1950. Includes both network and local programs. These schedules were used by NBC sales staff for the purpose of selling NBC network airtime to advertisers and sponsors. Beginning in December, 1952 the back pages of the schedules feature interesting tidbits of information on NBC programs to entice potential sponsors. Some schedules have handwritten corrections.
Contains approximately 150,000 discs from the early 1930s to the late 1960s, including comedy, drama, public affairs, musical variety, sports, news, information and international shortwave broadcasts. Everything recorded through 1953, plus a selection of programs after 1953, has been preserved and is cataloged on SONIC. Also check the publication "Radio Broadcasts in the Library of Congress, 1924-1941," (LOC, 1982).
Contains 1,298 records of news and commentary by Swing, 1938-1947. Some of the records have brief summaries. See Manuscript Division for collection of Swing scripts.