The Gay Peoples Union Collection presents digital copies of primary source materials documenting GPU and Milwaukee’s gay liberation movement. Materials were selected from the following collections held by the Division of Archives and Special Collections of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries: the Gay Peoples Union Records, GPU News, and the Eldon Murray Papers.
Content types:
Spoken word and Text
Formats:
Optical disc (including CD, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-R, DVD-RW, VCD), Analog audiocassette, Open reel tape (unknown material), and Digital audio file (including MP3, WAV, AIFF, etc.)
Papers of Dore Schary, a playwright, motion picture executive, and activist in Jewish and liberal political causes documenting both his personal and professional life. Included are general correspondence; microfilmed scrapbooks; scripts and production material for plays and motion pictures; records pertaining to MGM; non-dramatic writings, speeches (many in recorded form), and an autobiography and a family memoir; home movies and photographs; correspondence, reports, lists, financial records, and speeches from his tenure as national chairman of the Anti-Defamation League and subject files on other organizations with which he was involved such as the American Civil Liberties Union, the American Jewish Committee, and the Democratic Party; and personal and biographical information. Documentation in the production files varies but may include correspondence, notes, variant drafts of scripts, clippings, financial records, publicity, stills, designs, and casting information. Records of Schary's years as executive producer, studio head, and vice-president at MGM include reports of executive meetings, correspondence and memoranda, and scattered financial reports. Also present are papers pertaining to the career of Schary's wife Miriam, painter M. Svet. The collection is arranged in four parts: the Original Collection, the 1968 Additions, the 1977 Additions, and the 1981 Additions. The Original Collection dates 1923-1962 and is organized in these categories: Biographical and Personal Material, General Files, General Writings, and Production Files. The 1968 Additions date 1933-1952 and consist of Production Files only. The 1977 Additions date circa 1920-1980 (though primarily 1956-1977) and again contain Biographical and Personal Material, General Files, General Writings, and Production Files, as well as a new category, Anti-Defamation League Files. Finally, the 1981 Additions date 1924-1980 (primarily 1974-1980) and include the same categories as the 1977 Additions plus a separate category for Disc Recordings. The Original Collection includes other disc recordings, and tape recordings are present in all but the 1968 additions. Some records are present only in microfilm format.
Content types:
Still image, Two-dimensional moving image, and Spoken word
Formats:
Acetate open reel tape, Lacquer disc, Pressed LP disc, Photographic print, and Microfilm
Extent:
74.2 c.f. (203 archives boxes, 1 record center carton, and 1 flat box), 37 reels of microfilm (35 mm), 26 tape recordings, 231 disc recordings, 55 reels of film, and photographs
The Agnes Moorehead Papers, 1923-1974, include material, mainly scripts, on her work as an actress. They are organized in the categories Radio, Motion Pictures, Television, and Theatre. There are also 104 scrapbooks, whose contents overlap the materials in the other series and include all Moorehead's correspondence (including greeting cards for all occasions), clippings, programs, photographs, and miscellany, 1928-1973. In addition, the collection includes files of materials submitted to Moorehead for her review but rejected by her, and miscellany. This collection extensively documents Moorehead's exceptional career, in which she was continuously employed as an actress, often in several media simultaneously, for forty-five years.
Records of a network of Catholic communications professionals which established the Gabriel Awards to recognize programs that "uplift and nourish the human spirit," including correspondence, newsletters, pamphlets, photographs, press releases and proceedings of general assemblies and awards banquets. Includes radio scripts and some recordings.
Repository/Collector:
Raynor Memorial Libraries, Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Contains records of The Breakfast Club, 1933-1968, and Don McNeill's TV Club, 1950-1951, and related personal papers of McNeill. Includes program scripts and outlines, publicity and advertising material, photographs, clippings and scrapbooks, films of Breakfast Club simulcasts, TV Club programs and other television programs featuring McNeill. Also includes sound recordings of several Breakfast Club programs from the 1940s and 1950s and master audiotapes for the last seven months of The Breakfast Club, May-December, 1968.
Repository/Collector:
Raynor Memorial Libraries, Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Contains correspondence, photographs, press clippings, programs and ephemera documenting the career of the singer/pianist Hildegarde Loretta Sell known professionally as "The Incomparable Hildegarde."
Repository/Collector:
Raynor Memorial Libraries, Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Some print material dealing with the company's sponsorship of radio programs may be available on a limited basis to qualified researchers. All sound recordings have been donated to the Museum of Broadcasting in Chicago.
Papers relating to her work in radio, television, motion pictures and theater. Over half the collection is comprised of scrapbooks, 1928-1973, containing correspondence and fan mail, clippings, programs, photographs and memorabilia. Included are materials on her frequent radio appearances on Cavalcade of America and Ceiling Unlimited.
Papers of a capital reporter and radio commentator, including correspondence, biographical material and writings for publication and broadcast. Includes CBS scripts of general news and scripts for Army Hour for which Warner was a regular commentator. Includes recordings of Army Hour and Three Star Extra.
Papers of the founder of the National Academy of Broadcasting, Inc. and a teacher of music in schools and on the radio. Includes correspondence, articles and addresses, scrapbooks, press releases, printed materials, scripts and sound recordings. The correspondence is largely of a personal nature but letters written during the 1930s occasionally display her efforts to become recognized as a pioneer in educational broadcasting. Scripts and teachers' manuals relate to her position as broadcasting director for CBS's American School of the Air. Also includes scripts and recordings for several radio series used to promote NAOB as well as other instructional materials such as "How to Speak and Write for Radio," 1944, which she developed to teach broadcasting techniques.
Papers of a broadcaster associated with WHA, Madison, WI relating chiefly to the Homemaker Program which she supervised. Includes listener correspondence, annual reports, committee minutes, 1938-1955, and a subject file containing scripts, circulars and information on program content.
Papers relate to the beginnings of educational radio broadcasting. Includes minutes, 1926-1938, of the University of Chicago Radio Committee and papers on the Rocky Mountain Radio Council, Denver, 1945-1949, the University Broadcasting Council, Chicago, 1935-1938, and the University of Chicago Roundtable, 1938-1963.
Papers of a writer of dramatic series, specials and quiz programs for radio and television. Includes scripts and drafts for Big Town and some television programs. Also includes script for "Summer is Forever" aired on the Children' s Hour.
Includes three transcription discs for The Labor Parade issued by the Radio Division of the American Federation of Labor, 1938. It is likely these recordings were distributed to local unions.
Papers of a news producer and executive with CBS, 1947-1967, and other stations. Radio related information includes CBS files containing correspondence and office memoranda to and from Fred W. Friendly, Richard S. Salant and others, news scripts, program ideas and clippings and news releases about Westin, programs he produced and CBS in general. Two scrapbooks pertain to radio programs on which he worked as a field reporter: The People Act and Nation's Nightmare of which there are 20 recorded episodes.
Two promotional sound recordings of major news stories covered by CBS correspondents in 1957 and 1958. Among the correspondents featured are Walter Cronkite, Eric Sevareid, Robert Pierpoint, Edward R. Murrow, Daniel Schorr and Howard K. Smith. Other subjects or voices include Frank Zeidler, Milwaukee Braves, Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, Charles De Gaulle, the Cold War and changes in the Russian leadership, integration and Little Rock and Middle Eastern events.