Includes an incomplete set of scripts and programs, scrapbooks, correspondence and newsclippings concerning radio programs on technology and science aired on The World Is Yours.
Forty oral history interviews (tapes and transcripts) conducted between 1970 and 1975. Also contains address and cast lists for One Man's Family, original scripts for August 16 and 19, 1936, and program ephemera. Also newsclippings, "Random Reflections," written by Morse, 1972-1974, photographs of Morse and his family and a video "Good Old Days of Radio," narrated by Steve Allen, n.d.
Papers relating to broadcasting outlets (radio and television), mostly in North Dakota, but also in South Dakota and Virgin Islands owned by Boler and his other business and political activities.
The Radio Scripts collection consists of transcripts of radio programs, both serials and single broadcasts. Among the radio series are "Freedom's People" sponsored by the Federal Security Agency of the U.S. Office of Education (1941-1942); "Give me Liberty" sponsored by the American Committee for Democracy and Intellectual Freedom (1939); "Native Sons" written by Kirk Lord and Frank Griffin; "National Urban League" sponsored by the organization of the same name during its annual Vocational Opportunity Campaign (1941-1951); "Unity at Home; Victory Abroad" consisting of speeches and dramatizations of the lives of African Americans and whites (1943); "New World A-Comin'" (1944-1966), and "Within Our Gates" presented by the Philadelphia Fellowship Commission to deal with the problem of intolerance and bigotry and to provide all citizens equal opportunity and equal rights (1945-1948). The largest group of scripts in the collection is from the radio series "New World A-Comin'." There are also several single scripts including, "Speech of Paul Robeson," "Hampton Institute Forum of the Air, 1944," "Lincoln, Douglas and the Honor Roll In the Race Relations," and "Wings over Jordan."
Content types:
Other
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Photographs depicting popular radio performers during World War II, often engaged in war conservation efforts. Approximately 1,500 photographs. ABC, CBS, MBS, NBC, WOR and WEVD are among the networks and stations represented. Also includes a series of photographs showing radio employees picking up short wave communications at the "listening posts," which were then transmitted to the News Room. Overall, this collection documents the impact not only of radio on troop morale but also of the war itself on home front entertainment. A complete list of entertainers is available in the Department of Prints, Photographs, and Architectural Collections.
Contains mainly personal correspondence between Goddard and her husband, Burgess Meredith, along with a biography of Goddard, obituaries, telegrams, postcards (original and transcribed), photographs and other material. Does not appear to contain any radio specific material.
Repository/Collector:
Jerome Lawrence & Robert E. Lee Theatre Research Institute
Consists of correspondence, biographical newspaper articles, broadcast scripts and advertisements, award certificates, travel itineraries and miscellaneous materials documenting Brine's 50 year career in broadcasting on WPRO, beginning as an announcer for Time, News and Temperature and later as the host of Salty's Shack, 1955-1968.
Scripts of 380 shows sponsored by the Union Electric Company of Missouri and broadcast first on KSD and later on KMOX. The shows present the history of the St. Louis area. Also includes photographs and recordings.
Includes correspondence with Harry Milton and others, broadcast transcripts, clippings, photographs and miscellany relating to the acquaintanceship of Milton with the British writer George Orwell in Spain during the Spanish Civil War.
More than 20,000 tapes of programs representing the full range of programming offered at the station over the years. The most complete holdings are programs dealing with local historical and political events. A finding aid is available in the repository.
Compilation of 50 discs containing educational programs produced under the auspices of the Portland Public Schools as well as programming produced by KGW or released from other affiliates. Programs include The American Challenge, a U.S. history series, Their Name was Courage, historical dramas about Washington state, Bill Scott, Forest Ranger, a conservation program sponsored by the U.S. Forest Service, live coverage of the 1941 Benson High School dance and a drama from Reed College, 1939.
Contains scrapbooks concerning her work with the WAVES, correspondence, press books, clips, photographs, etc. Barton was program director of the New York State Radio-TV Bureau.
Collection of scripts of broadcasts held on successive Tuesdays from October 18-December 20, 1938 covering topics concerning the Navajo Indians and the Navajo Reservation.
Repository/Collector:
Arizona State University Special Collections, Charles Hayden Library
Consists of approximately 14,000 phonograph records of broadcasts, including event reports, interviews and speeches with mayors, city officials and other dignitaries as well as programs of drama and music.
Contains transcripts of the Association's weekly radio and television program, Columbus Town Meeting, including opening statements for some of the broadcasts and other papers.
Contains radio and television scripts, script development notes, production files, correspondence, teaching materials, photographs, clippings, journal and magazine issues, artifacts, audio visual materials, original art, autographs, playbills, souvenir booklets, theatre and writer organizations materials, brochures and conference materials and posters. Includes scripts for Armed Forces Radio Service, Favorite Story, The Railroad Hour, Hallmark Playhouse, Young Love, The World We're Fighting For, Man About Hollywood, Songs by Sinatra, Lady Esther's Album, I WasThere, Meet Mr. Music, Saturday Morning, CBS Shows, The Little Show, Call For Music, Request Performance, The Unexpected and others. For a detailed list of radio scripts by program title and date check finding aid at: http://1ibrary.osu.edu/sites/speccoll/finding/LandL.html#series2.
Repository/Collector:
Jerome Lawrence & Robert E. Lee Theatre Research Institute
Collection of 25 recordings containing local and national news programs (NBC and ABC), including World War II and Korean War news and the historical series Mr. President. Local programs include the sports news program Radio Box Score and the country music program Neath Western Skies.
Collection of 400 discs containing local and national news programs (CBS), including reports on World War II, the Korean War and the Cold War as well as the speeches of Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Winston Churchill and others. Local programs include documentaries on the Tillamook Burn, 1943 and 1953, live reports on Kaiser shipyard launchings, 1941-1945, reports on the Vanport Flood, 1948, the Northwest Neighbors talk show, the historical drama "Song of the Columbia," the award-winning documentary on African-American physician Dr. Charles Drew entitled "Who Killed Dr. Drew," Kid Critics, featuring Portland area grade school children reviewing books, Pacific Power and Light and Northwest Electric commercials, 1941-1947, and a live concert with Jane Powell from Portland's South Park Blocks.
Contains transcripts of Axis and Allied propaganda broadcasts monitored by the Listening Center staff from November, 1939 through May, 1941. Also includes subject and research files of the organization.
Papers covering an overview of the company's sponsorship of several programs, including When A Girl Marries, 1939-1941, The Prudential Family Hour, 1945-1948, The Prudential Family Hour of Stars, 1948-1950 and The Jack Berch Program, 1945-1950?. Also includes scripts of the company's commercials for the programs.
Includes scripts of Women in the Making of America, 1939-1940, broadcast in cooperation with the WPA's Federal Theatre Radio Division, and Gallery of Women, a series produced by the University of Michigan, 1954, and broadcast in cooperation with the U.S. Office of Education. Also includes program outlines, posters and clippings.
Includes clippings about Jane Ashman's two radio programs, Americans All, Immigrants All, 1938, and Women in the Making of America, 1939, for which historian Mary Beard was a consultant.
Sound recording of broadcasts relating to the immigration of various national and ethnic groups to the United States. Also includes recordings of Treasury Star Parade , n.d.
Sound recordings with Elmer Holmes Davis relating to the outbreak of World War II. Includes recordings of radio addresses by leaders of the belligerent nations.
Transcripts of a series of radio talks delivered over WOSU by Oskar Seidlin relating to the 20th century German authors Franz Kafka, Rainer Maria Rilke and Thomas Mann.
Consists of manuscripts of three plays and an introduction compiled by James Boyd. The scripts were written as American propaganda plays and presented over CBS in the spring of 1941. Includes Boyd's "One More Free Man" (final title) and a mimeographed copy of Orson Welles's "His Honor, the Mayor" (annotated, probably by Boyd). The third play, "Above Suspicion," is ascribed to Sherwood Anderson although the play was not completed at his death. Anderson's idea was developed by the company and the play was presented in tribute to him.
Repository/Collector:
Princeton University Libraries, Rare Books and Special Collections
Transcription discs of the program. As of 2005, about 300+ programs have been transferred and plans are to transfer the remaining discs. Also see Adrian Michaelis Collection above.
"Many of these reel to reels and the 78s are segments, not actual broadcast recordings of lectures and recorded events. I have recordings of the events/interviews and stock background music but not the production pieces as they were aired from what I can discern."
Content types:
Sounds and Other
Formats:
Disc (Commercial, Homemade, Transcription) and Reel-to-reel
Collection contains photographs, several office newsletters generated by Mr. Flett, documents related to the quest for an F.C.C. license to broadcast, scripts, schedules and personal memorabilia.
Content types:
Still image and Text
Formats:
Photographic print and Text document
Extent:
2 linear feet
Repository/Collector:
Noel Memorial Library, Northwest Louisiana Archives at LSUS
Includes sound recordings and transcripts of broadcasts of historical programs, mostly on WFBL, including the Caravan of Industry which focused on the history of a particular industry each week. Also recordings of historical programs relating to the Syracuse Centennial, streetcars, the Village of Manlius and the Syracuse Republican Party.
A sound recording representing a compilation by Bud Greenspan of speeches, radio addresses and radio news broadcasts, 1940-1945, relating to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the events leading up to it and its aftermath. Includes facsimiles of pages from "The New York Times," December 6-9, 1941.
Includes writings, minutes of meetings, radio transcripts and serial issues relating to the promotion of patriotism in Hawaiian schools and within the Asian community in Hawaii and to military government in the Marshall Islands during World War II.
A collection of 57 sound recordings of broadcasts relating to American neutrality in World War II, the Japanese attacks on Pearl Harbor and the Philippines and the first weeks of American participation in the war. Includes speeches by President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill of Great Britain and newscasts. Collection was compiled by Roy Pryor.
Sound recording of three radio speeches broadcast on February 22, 1942 by Anderson for the working women of the Allied nations. Anderson describes the changing nature of employment for women before and during World War II, the history of sex discrimination in employment and forecasts how the employment climate for women may change after the war.
Contains a large volume of scripts and other papers relating to the Sacred Heart Program dating back to about 1942. Also includes sound recordings (in different formats), some from 1940s, then from 1960s to the present and material on the television version of the program.
Contains scripts, speeches, notes, correspondence and other material related to Eschen's career as Director of Special News Events, an announcer and reporter on KSD. Also includes audio tapes and photographs.
Contains correspondence and miscellanea relating to the broadcast of Salute to the War Mothers, 1942, and the publication of a pamphlet "Salute to the Gold Star Mothers," 1943, by the American Legion, San Francisco Post No.1.
Consists of brochures advertising Phil Spitalny's All Girl Orchestra, the General Electric Hour of Charm, 1943, and two photographs of an unidentified women's band, n.d.
Eighteen transcripts of the weekly program The Artist Reviews Art featuring Fernando Puma and Helen Waren, including scripts #15-23, October 1, 1943-February 18, 1944, broadcast on WEVD and WABF, New York City.
Contains correspondence, radio scripts, manuscripts, notes, tapes, reviews of productions, photographs, periodicals and clippings. Although online finding aid lists a box of radio scripts, the contents of the box are not shown.
Consists of predominantly scripts for stage, radio, television and film plus correspondence, photographs and printed material, including playbills, theatre programs and a small amount of personal records and memorabilia.
Includes letters relating to some of his songs, an article about Handy and a radio schedule for WGAR, Cleveland for September 24-30, 1944 featuring Handy on the cover.
Includes memoirs, broadcast transcripts, memoranda and reports, 1944-1945, relating to the activities of the Office of War Information during World War II and especially to its radio broadcasts of news and commentary in various languages to Europe from its London station.
Radio program which solicited programming requests from the listening audience. Listeners would write to the studio with ideas for skits, and the actors on the show would perform those skits on the air. Skits were written by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Lee. Each program features a different all-star cast.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
31 recordings
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Transcription discs of Shubert productions, mostly operettas, broadcast on WGN, Chicago, 1944-1954, for Chicago Theatre of the Air, The Railroad Hour, The Celanese Hour and Texaco Star Theatre. Collection also includes cassettes of productions of "The Student Prince" (remastered from discs) that aired on the Texaco Star Theatre, July 21, 1946 and The Celanese Hour, May 24, 1945. Also radio commercials advertising Broadway shows in Shubert houses.
Recording of appeals by Nicholas Kalmer to Greek-Americans to contribute medical and food relief to Greece through the Greek War Relief Association at the end of World War II. In Greek.
The collection consists of fifty one episodes from the 1946-1947 season. Most items are off-air recordings from WEAF or WNBC, New York. Episode titles are unknown unless specified.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
101 recordings
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center