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.