"Russian War Relief Program," from 10/25/41 (accruing to the label, it apparently aired from 8:05 to 8:30) (3 discs) - "Address by James F. O'Neill, National Commander of the American Legion," from 1/6/48 (2 discs) - "The Rock, Story of Morton Sobell" (1 disc) - "You on Trial" (8 discs) - Testimony from the House Unamerican Activities Committee (Adrian Scott, Edward Dmytrik, Sam Ornitz) - "Voices of Resistance" (2 discs) and "New Voices of Resistance" (1 disc) - "National Mobilization for Human Needs" (1 disc)
Over 70,000 Old Time Radio Episodes freely available through our Library as well as an online Encyclopedia containing print and graphical resources and links to other sites for research.
Content types:
Spoken word, Still image, and Text
Formats:
Digital audio file (including MP3, WAV, AIFF, etc.)
Near complete collection of recordings of NBC Symphony Orchestra broadcasts plus some recordings of radio programs of Toscanini conducting the New York Philharmonic.
Includes transcripts of radio broadcasts, 1935-1949, reflecting Schenker's activities as a commentator at WTIC, Hartford, CT chiefly concerning events leading up to and during World War II and its aftermath, including D-Day, Pearl Harbor and the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Includes radio scripts, (Box 10, folder 311; Box 11, folder 334) for many of Nathan's productions, 1930s-1940s, including interviews done for the Catholic Charities Fund Appeal, 1943, Beyond the Call of Duty for the Young Men's Christian Association, Comrade Borozova, n.d., Flashbacks by Paddy, n.d., How Things Started, n.d., It's A Man's World, 1941, New Frontiers, 1938?, One Hundred Years With Youth, n.d., the panel discussion program Opinion Requested, 1945, for the Army-Air Force broadcast on WOR, Report From the Front, 1944, the instructional series The Story of Us All, 1940, broadcast on WEAF, That's News, n.d., They Chose to Die, 1941, Today's News For Tomorrow's Citizens, 1944, Your Rights and Mine, 1940-1941, and We've Got Something, n.d.
Repository/Collector:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University
Contains a copy of a 78rpm recording that includes the speech Miss Earhart made over a transatlantic radio hookup the day after she landed in Ireland, May, 1932.
Repository/Collector:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University
Contains personal and professional papers, newspaper clippings, outlines for possible television series, memorabilia and other papers. Includes some material relating to Coxe's pulp character, Flashgun Casey, Crime Photographer, which later became a radio series, Casey, Crime Photographer.
Repository/Collector:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University
Broadcasting to the world the latest information from the oil fields of Texas, Arkansas and the Great Southwest, March 26, 1923. Note: This may be a transcript of a broadcast.
Repository/Collector:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University
Contains the July 18, 1954 broadcast that includes the poetry of Dylan Thomas and a discussion by Reuel N. Denny, Elder J. Olson and Alan Simpson. Note: Description was unclear as to whether the material was a sound recording or a transcript.
Repository/Collector:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University
Includes scripts for many radio programs that moved to television. See online finding aid for list of scripts. Scripts donated after 1964 may not be listed. Note: On different pages of the University's web site, this collection is listed as "television scripts" and "radio and television scripts." The latter reference notes that there are 5,000 scripts in the collection and that only a portion of the collection has been indexed.
Repository/Collector:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University
Contains a condensation of the book read by McFee on WJZ, Newark, NJ on Sunday, December 24, 1922. Includes a printed notice of the broadcast which may have been sponsored by the United Fruit Company.
Repository/Collector:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University
Includes radio and television scripts for Theatre Guild on the Air (a.k.a. U.S. Steel Hour), plus correspondence and other papers. Also includes non radio related Theatre Guild papers. Scripts are stored in 125 boxes, arranged alphabetically by title. Correspondence is arranged alphabetically. Note: Sound recordings of the programs are in the Music Library.
Repository/Collector:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University
Collection of 46 scripts for the program broadcast on WICC. The programs were extra-curricular productions that were written and acted by students of the Department of Drama, Yale University.
Includes tapes, arrangements, photographs, scrapbooks, clippings and memorabilia. Contact library for more information about any radio related material in the collection.
Collection includes an unknown quantity of recorded radio broadcasts. Other than a complete run of the Theatre Guild on the Air there is no catalog of the collection that can be accessed by the public. Library staff will, however, respond to written or email inquiries regarding the availability of specific programs or performers. Inquiries should be as specific as possible, noting that it is easier for the library to search by performer than by program.
Contains scrapbooks, manuscript arrangements, numerous commercial recordings and 27 half-hour radio programs that, according to the library web site, were never aired and have not yet been cataloged.
Clippings from the "Hartford Courant" and "Boston Post" describing the hurricane of September 22, 1938, including accounts of a group of amateur radio enthusiasts who relayed vital orders to mobilize national guardsmen, open roads to isolated communities and sent messages to worried relatives of victims.