Contains correspondence and published items, newspaper clippings on fascism, socialism and World War I, photographs, pamphlets, cartoons and caricatures by Fort Velona and materials pertaining to Arturo Giovannitti and New York politicians. Valenti also worked for the Italian American station WHAY in Connecticut. Check with repository to determine if papers cover his radio career.
Repository/Collector:
Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota
Sound recording of the Housewives Protective League program broadcast on July 11, 1956 on WCCO featuring Juergen Nash and Tom Swain, Executive Director of the Minnesota Statehood Centennial Commission, discussing the goals and plans for the centennial celebration, including the roles of women in the celebration.
Includes a series of KUOM scripts, November, 1950-March, 1953, probably related to the Minnesota Chippewa or Ojibwa Indians, and other papers relating to Mudgett's work dealing with the Chippewa Indian culture.
Repository/Collector:
Archives & Special Collections, University of Louisville
Typescript of "Radio Forty Two Years Ago" written by the spouse of Rudy Hilgedick who was instrumental in building Duluth's first radio station, WJAP. The reminiscence is centered on the first broadcast of a Christmas midnight mass, December 25, 1922. Topics include a description of the studio, the station's range, listening devices used at the time and the use of volunteer performers and staff. Several excerpts from cards and letters received from listeners throughout the U.S. after the broadcast are also included.
Transcripts of Hitchcock's radio speeches on the progress and problems of the 1935 Minnesota legislative session of which he was a member from St. Louis County.