Contains correspondence and manuscripts, including drafts, typescripts, notes, photographs, mimeographed scripts and printed materials relating to Hall's plays, radio and television scripts, short stories and novels.
Repository/Collector:
Rare Book and Manuscript Collections, Butler Library
Letters about the formation of the Committee on Award of the Marconi Memorial Medal. The medal was to have been awarded annually for contributions to radio and David Sarnoff had been chosen as the first recipient but the Committee was dissolved as a result of a disagreement with the policies of the Italian government and the medal was never awarded.
Repository/Collector:
Rare Book and Manuscript Collections, Butler Library
Contains correspondence and manuscripts consisting of letters, poems, short stories, novels, plays, broadcast transcripts for Invitation to Learning and other papers.
Repository/Collector:
Rare Book and Manuscript Collections, Butler Library
Includes 501 scripts for the Claudia series plus sound recordings of some of the programs, scrapbook clippings and an audio tape interview of Franken (with typescript transcripts) conducted by her grandnephew, David Korr, in October, 1977.
Repository/Collector:
Rare Book and Manuscript Collections, Butler Library
Consists chiefly of correspondence and production files relating to the creation, production and performance of their works for stage, screen, radio and television.
Repository/Collector:
Rare Book and Manuscript Collections, Butler Library
Clippings from the "Hartford Courant" and "Boston Post" describing the hurricane of September 22, 1938, including accounts of a group of amateur radio enthusiasts who relayed vital orders to mobilize national guardsmen, open roads to isolated communities and sent messages to worried relatives of victims.
A news release for the program relating to literary awards of 1949. Includes remarks of Edgar T. Rigg on the presentation of the award to Robert Frost.
Papers relating to his studies of ants as pets and his invention of the ant farm. Some of the papers are radio scripts for broadcasts over NBC, March-June, 1938.
Contains scripts for radio plays and dramatic readings, 1936-1938, and news broadcasts, 1949-1955, by noted journalists and writers, including Stephen Vincent Benet, Norman Lewis Corwin, Cedric Foster, Fulton Lewis, Edward R. Murrow, and William N. Robson.
The Sarnoff Collection at TCNJ includes artifacts related to David Sarnoff's life; RCA, NBC, Victor Talking Machine Company, and Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of America; the history of radio, television, broadcasting, audio and video recording and reproduction, electron microscopy, radar, vacuum tubes, transistors, solid-state physics, semiconductors, lasers, liquid-crystal displays, integrated circuits, microprocessors, computers, communications satellites, and other technologies RCA played an important role in inventing and developing; and some of the many people, beside Sarnoff, who made these technologies work.
Contains materials on a variety of musical topics, including files on Johnny Mercer and his contemporaries, country music, various aspects of radio and television and several miscellaneous topics relating to twentieth century music and/or the music business.
Repository/Collector:
Georgia State University Special Collections and Archives
Contains papers of Johnny and Ginger Mercer and related materials, including audio recordings, sheet music, scripts, scrapbooks, correspondence, photographs, business records, lyrics, clippings and autobiographical materials.
Repository/Collector:
Georgia State University Special Collections and Archives
Eighteen transcriptions of The Happy Two broadcast over WAGA, Atlanta, GA from May-September of 1948. The program featured performers Shorty Bradford and Lee Roy Abernathy.
Repository/Collector:
Georgia State University Special Collections and Archives
Includes biographical information, correspondence, manuscripts, scrapbooks, some sound recordings and other papers focusing primarily on Mercer's career in film, radio and theater.
Repository/Collector:
Georgia State University Special Collections and Archives
Consists of commercial and non-commercial sound recordings of tunes, songs, music, radio shows and dictated letters by Mercer and his friends, colleagues, collaborators and fans. Some recordings contain interviews, dictated letters, and other non-musical material.
Repository/Collector:
Georgia State University Special Collections and Archives
Contains correspondence, photographs, memorabilia, secondary material about Crosby, materials from Crosby societies and fan clubs and an extensive collection of sound recordings of Crosby radio programs, including The Bing Crosby Show, 1949-1954, Kraft Music Hall, 1943-1946, Minute Maid Fresh Squeezed Orange Juice, 1949-1950, Philco Radio Time, 1946-1949 and miscellaneous programs, 1936-1960.
Repository/Collector:
Gonzaga University Archives and Special Collections
Bulk of the collection is correspondence concerning rights to a Traven story adapted for radio and television by Ted Allan, a playwright who worked for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
Includes manuscripts, cassette tapes and transcripts of interviews of Muni, photographs, programs, clippings, letters (mostly copies), scripts and articles relating to Muni's life and career. For collection details relating to radio check preliminary list in repository.
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.
Contains 69 transcription discs, 1941, 1947 and 1950, of the Hoosier Hop broadcast on WOWO, Ft. Wayne, IN. Also contains photographs, publicity materials and songbooks.
Contains papers, including scripts for the Hoagy Carmichael Show, 1945, and Columbia Broadcasting System Presents Hoagy Carmichael, 1947-1948, memorabilia and sound recordings.