Collection of recordings made by Rev. Park W. Huntington and broadcast by station WDEL of Wilmington, DE from 1954 to 1961. Contains tape recordings of progam "This is the Hour." Huntington was a pastor of St. Stephen's Lutheran Church in Wilmington, and served as regiment chaplain of the 198th Anti-Aircraft Regiment of the Delaware National Guard during WWII.
172 reel tapes of off-air recordings, made from 1951 to 1969, mostly broadcast recordings of performances by the NBC Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony Orchestra, and Metropolitan Opera.
The first public radio station in western New England, WFCR Five College Radio has provided a mix of high quality, locally-produced and nationally syndicated programming since May 1961. In 2012, the station reached over 175,000 listeners per week, with a mix of classical and jazz music, news, and entertainment. The WFCR Collection contains nearly 4,500 reel to reel recordings of locally-produced radio programs, reflecting over fifty years of the cultural and intellectual life of western Massachusetts. Drawing upon the talents of the faculty and students of the Five Colleges (Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, and Smith Colleges and UMass Amherst), the collection offers a remarkable breadth of content, ranging from public affairs to community and national news, cultural programming, children's programming, news and current events, scholarly lectures, classical music, and jazz.
Content types:
Performed music, Sounds (Other than music & language), and Spoken word
Formats:
Analog audiocassette and Polyester open reel tape
Extent:
462 linear feet
Repository/Collector:
UMass Amherst Libraries, Special Collections & University Archives
Educational radio scripts distributed to local stations by a music licensing corporation. Includes sample scripts for Book Parade, The World of the Mind, and The American Story. Also includes the complete run of the sub-series A. Lincoln, 1809-1865 written by Bruce Catton, Allen Nevins, Carl Sandburg and other Lincoln scholars and some promotional materials for The World of the Mind.
Transcription discs of "Austin," an episode of the radio series March of Minnesota apparently broadcast on WCCO, Minneapolis. Program was a dramatized history of Austin stressing the role of the meatpacking industry and includes studio interviews with four Austin residents followed by music by the Minnesota Symphony.
Yucca Flats Documentary, a radio documentary made in 1953 by Reed Hixon and Howell, president of KREX/KREX-TV, Grand Junction, CO about the effectiveness and results of the first atomic bomb tests at Yucca Flats, NV.
Transcript of Healey's broadcast on KPTK, Santa Monica, on the occasion of her resignation from the Communist Party, July 9, 1973. Healey broadcast on KPTK for 20 years. Duplicate transcript is available at UC/Berkeley.
Repository/Collector:
Department of Special Collections, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)