Includes more than 1,200 hours of interview programs and related broadcasts documenting all phases of McBride's radio career, 1935-1970s. See also separate collection of McBride's papers in the Manuscript Division.
Includes sound recordings and papers related to Walsh's career collecting, researching and writing about early popular recordings and recording artists. Includes correspondence with prominent artists and collectors, research notes, photographs of performers, scripts for Walsh's radio shows, drafts of his columns and articles, clippings, bound journals, advertisements, scrapbooks and ephemera. Series III of the collection includes scripts for Walsh's regular broadcasts on WDBJ and WSLS, Roanoke, VA. The majority of the scripts date from 1943-1949 and are for Walsh's Wax Works. Many of the scripts include separate playlists. Many of the programs showcased a particular recording artist or composer and an index to these shows is attached to the end of the finding aid. Also contains a few scripts for Walsh's Sunlight and Shadows show, 1947, 1948, and a folder of unidentified and partial scripts.
Scripts (some autographed by performers) and a photograph acquired by DeMartino while working backstage at CBS during the mid-1940s. Includes scripts for The Frank Sinatra Show, April 26 and December 4, 1944, Philip Morris Playhouse, January 27, February 11 and February 18, 1944, and Your Hit Parade, October 16, 1943, April 8, 1944 and August 25, 1945. The scripts include advertisements for sponsors.
Contains 1,298 records of news and commentary by Swing, 1938-1947. Some of the records have brief summaries. See Manuscript Division for collection of Swing scripts.
Consists of sound recordings, film footage, photographs and accompanying manuscript documentation on two widely publicized expeditions to Oceania and Indonesia in 1940 and 1941 that documented music and dance in the South Sea islands. Includes a copy of the NBC Blue Network program broadcast live from Suva, Fiji by the Fahnestock expedition on August 19, 1940.
Collection of Yiddish radio broadcasts on transcription discs and audio tape; plus sheet music, manuscripts and photographs documenting Yiddish culture, theater, and music, primarily in the New York City area, but also including documentation from other parts of the United States, from the 1920s to circa 1960, collected by Henry Sapoznik. Manuscripts include correspondence, manuscript music, photocopies, and other material.
Collection includes memoranda, correspondence, speeches, reports, policy statements and pamphlets covering the creation of the network, its growth in the field of radio and its subsequent expansion into television broadcasting. The materials span 1922-1986, but most date from the mid-1920s through the late 1940s. Additional files include: Topical folders, 1922-1986 (649 folders); Advertisers, 1927-1961 (38 folders); Personnel and organizations, 1926-1980 (88 folders); Committees, councils, and internal organizations, 1923-1973 (122 folders); Board of directors, 1926-1956 (100 folders); Network affiliates, 1923-1983 (44 folders); General reports, 1930-1936 (67 folders); Annual reports, 1932-1959 (6 folders); Programs, subject lists, schedules, samples, 1931-1972 (126 folders); Speeches, 1923-1990 (63 folders); Programs, schedules, transcripts, and masterbooks, 1922-1979 (28 folders); Election news, 1962-1988 (55 folders); Consultant reports, 1947-1957 (14 folders); Pamphlets (566 folders)
Autographed draft and corrected typescripts of Corwin's 1941 broadcast We Hold These Truths. Also includes An American in England, a series of plays given over the CBS network from New York City in December 1942.
Correspondence, writings, scripts, contracts, clippings and guest lists relating particularly to Information Please produced by Golenpaul for radio and television and to his subsequent publication, "Information Please Almanac."
Correspondence, memoranda, reports, speeches, writings, financial records, research notes, awards, printed matter and photographs documenting Denny's career. Part II of the collection documents Denny's role as moderator, 1935-1952, of America's Town Meeting of the Air.
Chiefly material relating to Meet the Press, including letters, 1957-1968, from viewers, radio and television scripts, 1945-1970, newspaper clippings, 1945-1973, and lists of program broadcasts, 1945-1969. See listing in Recorded Sound section for audio recordings of the programs.
Correspondence, autobiographical memoir, speeches and writings, business papers, clippings and scrapbooks relating primarily to Kobak's work with McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, NBC and MBS, the early years of radio and television broadcasting and to his expertise in the field of public relations and communications.