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22. What Must Be Done radio series
- Description:
- These materials comprise a thirteen-part radio series of public service broadcasts produced by Sam Chase for WLIB radio in New York in cooperation with Newsweek Magazine.
- Content types:
- Performed music and Spoken word
- Formats:
- Open reel tape (unknown material)
- Extent:
- 13 audiotape reels (6.5 hours)
- Repository/Collector:
- Archives of African American Music and Culture
- Online finding aid:
- View on webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu
23. Grauer, Ben. Ben Grauer papers
- Description:
- Radio and television announcer, reporter, commentator, and host, Grauer began his career as a child actor on the Broadway stage and in silent movies. After graduating from college in 1930, he was hired by the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) and became one of its most famous "voices." The collection includes correspondence, manuscripts, diaries, radio, television, and "Film" scripts, notes, subject files, documents, financial records, photographs, memorabilia, clippings, and printed materials. The manuscripts consist of early writings; radio, television, "Film", and sound recording scripts with related notes and correspondence. The majority of the Scripts File are for NBC productions, but also included are scripts for the Voice of America, commercials, "Film"s, and records. Among Grauer's many "firsts" in broadcasting are the first live report of Count Folke Bernadotte's assasination, the first radio show to present cash prizes ("Pot 'o Gold"), and NBC television's first live news event, the opening of the 1939 New York World's Fair. Also included is one audio tape recording of "Salute to Ben Grauer," Nov. 15, 1950, an off the air recording.
- Formats:
- Open reel tape (unknown material)
- Extent:
- 80 linear ft. (171 boxes, 1 audio tape)
- Repository/Collector:
- Rare Book and Manuscript Collections, Butler Library
- Online finding aid:
- View on www.columbia.edu
24. James F. Byrnes Collection
- Description:
- Interviews and speeches by James F. Byrnes from the 1930s to 1970s.
- Content types:
- Spoken word
- Formats:
- Open reel tape (unknown material), Analog audiocassette, and Optical disc (Including CD, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-R, DVD-RW, VCD)
- Extent:
- 95 items
- Repository/Collector:
- McKissick Museum, South Carolina Broadcasters Association Archives
25. Carol Cline Papers
- Description:
- The collection documents Carol Cline’s interest and acclaim in the Dayton, Ohio radio community and the public relations industry. Also included is documentation on Cline’s international travels and civic commitment. The bulk of materials date from 1939-1966 and include correspondence, notes, news clippings, photographs, public relations materials, audio reels of "Carol’s Corner" radio broadcast interviews of famous and accomplished individuals, and a scrapbook. Cline interviewed high profile individuals from Miami Beach, Florida in 1963, including Mayor Kenneth Oka, and Marshal Wise, Director of the Cuban Refugee Center. Cline also interviewed professors and students from Cornell University, her alma mater. Cline’s interview subjects included several political figures, such as Congressman Robert Taft, Jr., Senator Paul Douglass, and Frances Perkins (former Secretary of Labor from 1934-1945). Entertainers interviewed by Cline included Bob Newhart, Roberta Peters, Helen Hayes, Peter Nero, Alan King, Jimmy Durante, and Liberace. Authors Abigail VanBuren, and Amy Vandervilt were a few of the authors interviewed. Among the Dayton Personalities were Roz Young, S.C. Allyn, Allan Eckert, Si Burick, Phil Donahue, and Dayton Philharmonic founder and director, Paul Katz.
- Content types:
- Spoken word, Still image, and Text
- Formats:
- Acetate open reel tape and Open reel tape (unknown material)
- Extent:
- 2.5 linear feet. 155 ¼" reel to reel audio tapes, the majority of which are 3" reels, however 5" and 7" tapes are also present.
- Repository/Collector:
- Wright State University, Special Collections & Archives Department
- Online finding aid:
- View on www.libraries.wright.edu
26. Charlotte Shedd Papers
- Description:
- Charlotte Shedd was born in Austria in 1913 as Charlotte Kraus, and became a student of the performing arts. In 1938, she was denied the right to appear on stage because of the Nazi occupation of Austria, the Nuremberg Laws, and her father's Jewish background. On Christmas Eve 1938, she escaped to America with a nearly expired Austrian passport and began her singing career. Shortly thereafter, she met Eleanor Roosevelt's bodyguard, who introduced her to the First Lady, beginning a close friendship that lasted until Mrs. Roosevelt's death in 1962.
- Content types:
- Performed music and Spoken word
- Formats:
- Text document and Open reel tape (unknown material)
- Extent:
- Approximately 120 recordings, microfilm, 4.6 feet, paper copies
- Repository/Collector:
- University of Delaware Library, Special Collections
- Online finding aid:
- View on www.lib.udel.edu
27. The Gay Peoples Union Collection
- Description:
- The Gay Peoples Union Collection presents digital copies of primary source materials documenting GPU and Milwaukee’s gay liberation movement. Materials were selected from the following collections held by the Division of Archives and Special Collections of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries: the Gay Peoples Union Records, GPU News, and the Eldon Murray Papers.
- Content types:
- Spoken word and Text
- Formats:
- Optical disc (including CD, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-R, DVD-RW, VCD), Analog audiocassette, Open reel tape (unknown material), and Digital audio file (including MP3, WAV, AIFF, etc.)
- Extent:
- 1.2 cubic ft. (4 boxes), 29 audio reels, 1 audio cassette
- Repository/Collector:
- University of Wisconsin Digital Collections
- Online finding aid:
- View on digicoll.library.wisc.edu
28. Jack Gibson Collection
- Description:
- Jack "The Rapper" Gibson was a pioneer in Black radio, as well as an innovator, a leader, and a mentor to many in the radio and music industries. His work as a Black radio deejay spanned the early days of Black radio in the 1940s through the Civil Rights Movement, and included stints at WERD-Atlanta, WLOU-Louisville, WMBM-Miami, WCIN-Cincinnati, and WABQ-Cleveland. After retiring from radio in 1961, he became a successful music industry executive working for Motown, Decca, and Stax Records. In 1976, he launched the industry magazine Jack the Rapper, the oldest Black trade publication targeted to radio, and for the next twenty years organized the annual "Jack the Rapper’s Family Affair," a Black music convention drawing generations of performers and music industry executives. His professionalism, continuous fight for racial equality and justice, and endearing human qualities made him a legend in the industry. This collection documents his long career in radio and music through personal correspondence, clippings, memorabilia, photographs, publicity materials, airchecks, interviews, lecture materials, and over 500 issues of his trade magazine "Jack the Rapper's Mellow Yellow."
- Content types:
- Two-dimensional moving image, Performed music, Spoken word, Still image, and Text
- Formats:
- Analog audiocassette, Open reel tape (unknown material), VHS (including SVHS and VHS-C), Optical disc (Including CD, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-R, DVD-RW, VCD), Text document, and Photographic print
- Extent:
- 19 boxes (13 linear feet)
- Repository/Collector:
- Archives of African American Music and Culture
- Online finding aid:
- View on webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu
29. WJBC Radio Collection
- Description:
- The WJBC Radio Collection consists of eight boxes and 41 folders containing materials ranging from 1924 to 2000. Items in the collection include written histories of the station, audit reports, correspondence, memos, newspaper articles, magazine articles, newspaper ads, ad development materials, advertising rate cards, posters, flyers, pamphlets, program schedules, souvenir booklets, notes for radio announcements, catalogues, stationary, awards, notes for Don Munson’s book, reel-to-reel tapes, cassette tapes, microcassettes, CDs, radio show transcripts, and Steve Vogel’s daily planners.
- Formats:
- Open reel tape (unknown material), Optical disc (including CD, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-R, DVD-RW, VCD), and Analog audiocassette
- Extent:
- 8 boxes
- Repository/Collector:
- McLean County Museum of History
30. Leon Elam Collection
- Description:
- Recordings of the Carolina Outreach program from the 1960s and 1970s.
- Content types:
- Spoken word
- Formats:
- Open reel tape (unknown material)
- Extent:
- 200 items
- Repository/Collector:
- McKissick Museum, South Carolina Broadcasters Association Archives