Collection of materials from over 150 unions spanning the decades from the 1920s through the 1980s. The majority of the material comes from unions active in the Southern California area, including the Radio Writers Guild, Screen Writers Guild and AFTRA.
Repository/Collector:
Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research
Includes scripts for radio announcements and advertisements, 1930-1985. Also includes sheet music for the radio jingles, "I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream for Ice Cream," "Oh My, Eskimo Pie," and "New Eskimo Pie on a Stick" and a photograph of Don Ameche.
The collection contains the records pertaining to the business and operational aspects of Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians as well as the business records of Fred Waring's America. Includes business correspondence, tours, financial records, legal papers, workshops, radio shows, television shows, photographs, and fan mail.
Content types:
Notated music and Performed music
Formats:
Pressed 78rpm disc, Lacquer disc, Metal disc, and Digital Audio Tape (DAT)
Extent:
159 Cubic Feet (51 linear feet + 1100 Digital Audio Tapes)
Repository/Collector:
The Eberly Family Special Collections Library, Penn State University Libraries
Includes biographical clippings, programs, press notices and personal memorabilia concerning Toomey's life and career as a soprano known for her work in light opera, oratorio, concerts, radio and television.
Repository/Collector:
Jerome Lawrence & Robert E. Lee Theatre Research Institute
Includes office files, audio tapes, administration and project files as well as information on radio in Ohio and the U.S. A second WOSU collection includes over 2,000 phonograph records of broadcasts, l 930s-l 940s.
Contains correspondence, speeches, program scripts, publicity photos and articles primarily concerning her career which included narrating The Woman Reporter and Woman's Page of the Air. Cumming played the role of Betty Crocker, an advertising agent for General Mills, on radio and television. Papers concerning her Betty Crocker role consist mainly of promotional literature and speeches.
Includes photographs, clippings, awards and certificates and memorabilia covering Burks's radio disc jockey career beginning in 1947 at KXLW and later with KSTL , KATZ and KADI. Also includes material on his TV career.
Contains correspondence, scrapbooks, financial papers and other papers, including a script for Art in a Democracy, a symposium presented by the Federal Theatre Project in New York City, and three 7" untranscribed tapes of an interview of Bry and Philip Evergood for an Art in a Democracy broadcast on WQXR, New York City, April 29, 1938.