Includes correspondence, minutes of the board of directors, convention reports, financial records and committee and membership files. Also includes copies of the organization's publications such as the "Commentator" and "RTNDA Bulletin." Correspondents include Edward R. Murrow. As of 2005, much of the collection remains in a semiprocessed and/or unprocessed state although there is an online finding aid.
Contains biographical information in the form of newspaper clippings and feature articles about Atkinson. Also includes letters and cards of thanks she received following her performances and lectures, several performance programs and announcements and materials pertaining to her 1997 Woman of the Year Award. Beginning in 1943, Atkinson had a radio show on WMT during which she sang songs in response to listener requests. In 1952 she began serving as a typist and Spanish translator in the editing department of Collins Radio (now part of Rockwell International) and later became a production scheduler. For additional information about material related to her radio career check the finding aid.
Repository/Collector:
Iowa Women's Archives at the University of Iowa Libraries, University of Iowa
Consists of correspondence, printed matter, farm market related news broadcasts, market research data, surveys and related papers involving his broadcasts on WOI which were heard on 26 additional stations.
Collection is divided into several series. The Birkby series contains clippings about Birkby, including a 1991 "New Yorker" article by Jane and Michael Stern that relates the history of KMA and KFNF and the radio homemakers and includes an interview with Evelyn and Robert Birkby. The KFNF and KMA series, 1926-1987, contains primarily newsletters and recipe books, some taken from the homemakers' programs. Among the homemakers featured are Jessie S. Young, Edith Hansen, Florence Falk, Evelyn Birkby and Billie Oakley. The KMA Radio series also in cludes a small collection of photographs. The Miscellaneous Radio Homemaker materials includes books by radio homemakers from South Dakota and Oklahoma. The Photographs series, 1948-1965 and n.d., consists of photographs of Birkby and other radio homemakers. The Audiovisual series includes a video documentary about the radio homemakers and audio tapes of radio homemaker programs.
Repository/Collector:
Iowa Women's Archives at the University of Iowa Libraries, University of Iowa
Includes correspondence, reports, radio talks, 1948-1971, memoranda, minutes, teaching notes, lectures, biographical information, photographs and other papers. Bulk of material relates to agricultural and home economics extension work in Iowa and food production during World Wars I and II.