Includes the committee's attempts to use radio to promote understanding of the implications of atomic energy in a nontechnical, easily understood form.
Autographed draft and corrected typescripts of Corwin's 1941 broadcast We Hold These Truths. Also includes An American in England, a series of plays given over the CBS network from New York City in December 1942.
Papers relating to the symposium Is Radio a Blessing or a Menace? Contributors include George Ade, Brooks Atkinson, M. H. Aylesworth, Gutzon Borglum, Ellis Parker Butler, James Branch Cabell, Sen. Arthur Capper, Irvin S. Cobb, Walter Damrosch, Benjamin De Casseres, Lee DeForest, Clarence C. Dill, W. N. Doak, James Montgomery Flagg, Daniel Frohman, Fannie Hurst, Joseph Jastrow, H. L. Mencken, George Jean Nathan, Eugene O'Neill, Gov. Gifford Pinchot, Charles Edward Russell, Upton Sinclair, Harry B. Smith, Sigmund Spaeth, Ernest Milmore Stires, Booth Tarkington, Samuel Untermyer, Carolyn Wells, William Allen White, Brand Whitlock, Owen Wister and Adolph Zukor.
Correspondence, memoranda, diaries, speeches, manuscripts of articles and books, notebooks, dispatches, releases, radio scripts, reports, reference files, pamphlets, promotional material, scrapbooks, clippings, memorabilia and photographs. Chiefly reference material pertaining to the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration and World War II.
Primarily scripts of Swing's radio broadcasts, including those presented on the Voice of America. Also includes correspondence, lectures, addresses, articles and other papers. See Recorded Sound section for audio recordings of Swing's broadcasts.
Correspondence, scripts, program listings and other material concerning Harshaw's programs Battle of Books, Carnival of Books and The Hobby Horse Presents.
Correspondence, legal proceedings, printed transcripts of radio and television broadcasts, scripts, memoranda, production inventories, office and business papers and newspaper clippings, chiefly 1941-1967. The radio papers relate primarily to American Forum of the Air, Youth Wants To Know, and All America Wants To Know.
Personal and official correspondence, diary, orders to duty, awards, citations, transcripts of radio broadcasts, memoranda and clippings relating to Wilkinson's duties as deputy commander, South Pacific area.
Contains correspondence, speeches and writings, lectures, business records, family papers, scripts, programs, playbills, publicity material, photographs and other papers relating to Price's career and other interests.
An extensive collection that includes material on the Radio Division. For more specific information see http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fedtp/fthome.html and for finding aid, http://hdl.loc.gov/1oc.music/eadmus.mu995001.
Repository/Collector:
Performing Arts Reading Room (Music Division), Library of Congress
Contains 300,000 16" and 12" transcription discs, 1942-1998 with a variety of programming. A partial inventory of pre-1959 16" discs is available. The 12" discs are cataloged in the LC online catalog where they are searchable by program title, genre, and in many cases performer name and song title.
A series of private, experimental and radio broadcast recordings made at Columbia University, principally during the 1930s. The Collection comprises a wide range of spoken arts, including documentaries, speeches, interviews and prose and poetry readings.