Includes articles, scripts and photographs of Tait Cummins, a sports writer and broadcaster in Cedar Rapids. His second wife, Dorothy Ireland Cummins, also worked at WMT.
Contains transcripts of Field's program, the Letter Basket, broadcast on KFNF, station publications, programming schedules, postcards and photographs of radio personalities. The collection provides an account of the development of commercial radio.
Contains biographical information in the form of newspaper clippings and feature articles about Atkinson. Also includes letters and cards of thanks she received following her performances and lectures, several performance programs and announcements and materials pertaining to her 1997 Woman of the Year Award. Beginning in 1943, Atkinson had a radio show on WMT during which she sang songs in response to listener requests. In 1952 she began serving as a typist and Spanish translator in the editing department of Collins Radio (now part of Rockwell International) and later became a production scheduler. For additional information about material related to her radio career check the finding aid.
Repository/Collector:
Iowa Women's Archives at the University of Iowa Libraries, University of Iowa
Papers primarily document Stirlen's life work as a radio minister on KFNF and KMA, Shenandoah, IA, including over three decades of transcripts of sermons. Also includes the prayers and announcements she read on the radio during her program, printed prayer pamphlets, postcards, calendars and copies of the magazine she sent out to keep in touch with her listeners.
Repository/Collector:
Iowa Women's Archives at the University of Iowa Libraries, University of Iowa
A farm magazine writer, Wherry also wrote scripts for radio in the 1930s and 1940s. Collection includes manuscripts for the WSUI program Country Landscape that aired between 1940-1941.
Repository/Collector:
Iowa Women's Archives at the University of Iowa Libraries, University of Iowa
Collection is divided into several series. The Birkby series contains clippings about Birkby, including a 1991 "New Yorker" article by Jane and Michael Stern that relates the history of KMA and KFNF and the radio homemakers and includes an interview with Evelyn and Robert Birkby. The KFNF and KMA series, 1926-1987, contains primarily newsletters and recipe books, some taken from the homemakers' programs. Among the homemakers featured are Jessie S. Young, Edith Hansen, Florence Falk, Evelyn Birkby and Billie Oakley. The KMA Radio series also in cludes a small collection of photographs. The Miscellaneous Radio Homemaker materials includes books by radio homemakers from South Dakota and Oklahoma. The Photographs series, 1948-1965 and n.d., consists of photographs of Birkby and other radio homemakers. The Audiovisual series includes a video documentary about the radio homemakers and audio tapes of radio homemaker programs.
Repository/Collector:
Iowa Women's Archives at the University of Iowa Libraries, University of Iowa
Includes interviews and radio programs about women and sports conducted and produced by Englander for WSUI, n.d. As of 2005, the collection is unprocessed.
Repository/Collector:
Iowa Women's Archives at the University of Iowa Libraries, University of Iowa
Includes letters written in support of Driftmier's candidacy for the Iowa Mother of the Year Award, newspaper clippings about her career, family sketches taken from a scrapbook and a published memoir by Driftmier's daughter, Lucile Verness. A radio broadcaster, Driftmier was the founder of Kitchen-Klatter on KFNF, Shenandoah, IA.
Repository/Collector:
Iowa Women's Archives at the University of Iowa Libraries, University of Iowa
Odell was the host of radio and television programs, 1950s-1970s, in Des Moines and Chicago. Collection includes some newspaper clippings relating to her radio work in the 1950s.
Repository/Collector:
Iowa Women's Archives at the University of Iowa Libraries, University of Iowa