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.