Consists of correspondence, subject files, transcripts of radio broadcasts on KDKA and WWSW, 1937-1969, manuscripts, case files, family papers, audio tapes and a film of the Pittsburgh Catholic priest who was active in labor relations and social causes.
Includes papers relating to Hillman' s involvement with Republican Party politics in the 1950s and some material related to Fulton Lewis, Jr.'s radio programs. Also, Folder 141 includes what are likely transcripts of Rev. Carl Mclntire's program, Twentieth Century Hour, 1958-1961 (intermittent).
An engineer and executive for Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, the collection also includes papers relating to Davis's involvement in the beginnings of KDKA, the first commercial radio station in the United States. Also includes material about WJZ.
Papers include scripts Hodges wrote for The Children's Bookshelf and other materials related to the program and also about her role as a storyteller on Let's Tell A Story which became the nationally broadcast television program Tell Me A Story.
Includes scripts and other material for radio programs during the 1940s, including material for You Are An American, 1942-1944. The Institute was concerned about promoting better understanding and appreciation among people of all cultural and national backgrounds.
Contains a script, possibly radio, announcing Buhl Planetarium's Regional Convention of Astronomers and Stargazer's Fair in May, 1940. Also undated scripts for 78 broadcasts of Adventures in Research: Beloved Lens Maker that was part of the Modern Americans in Science and Invention Series.
Seventeen volumes of scripts, some written by Roy LaPlante, and aired on KYW, Philadelphia. Show was a weekly fifteen minute program narrated by school children. Collection also includes sound recordings of the same program, mostly 1944-1945 and one from 1948, and recordings of The World of Yesterday, The Crow and the Daylight, The Mouse Merchant and The Legend of the Willow Plate.
Repository/Collector:
Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Education Department, University of Pennsylvania
Primarily Dunning's personal collection of 94 scripts for plays, radio, TV and film and a small amount of related papers, clippings and correspondence. Catalog listing does not include any details about the radio scripts.
Belohlavek founded the Slovak Radio Circle aired on WJBK and later WJLB in Detroit, MI in the 1940s and hosted a half hour program sponsored by the General Stefanik Society. Papers contain a limited amount of material on the Slovak Radio Circle, including meeting minutes, membership lists, reports and correspondence. Included is a 1947 letter informing the of the cancellation of programs such as theirs that bought time from the station and then sold portions of it to individual advertisers. There are also angry letters and a petition denouncing the discontinuance of foreign language programming by the Circle's subsequent broadcasting station, WJLB, in 1948. Approximately 90% of the collection is in Slovak with the majority of documents in English being newsclippings.
Contains photographs of exhibitions sponsored by groups like the Philadelphia Electric Co. and the Electrical Association of Philadelphia that displayed a variety of electrical appliances including model homes, lighting, radios and phonographs. The collection includes documents relating to radio broadcasts.
Papers document Stanton's private life and radio and film activities as they relate to Ireland and the Irish-American community, including his career as an announcer at WIAD where he created the Irish Hour and his later ownership of WJMJ. Includes correspondence, speeches, radio scripts, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, certificates, photographs and a large amount of material on Irish history and culture.
An assemblage of materials collected by Hiteshew which document Irish music in Philadelphia. The materials include the personal papers of area musicians and broadcasters such as Thomas Caulfield, Seamus McGill, Owen B. Hunt and William Regan as well as scripts, sheet music, scrap books and phonograph records. The collection also contains a quantity of printed ephemera such as flyers, posters and programs from events sponsored by area musical organizations, including the Irish Musician's Union and fraternal organizations such as the Donegal Society, the Ancient Order of Hibernians and the Galway Society. Within the Hiteshew Collection, personal papers are grouped under individuals' names.
Contains papers related to Regan's career as a broadcaster in Philadelphia, including correspondence, clippings, printed materials, a scrapbook, uncataloged photographs and sound recordings.