Contains mostly correspondence but also includes drafts of scripts, contracts, clippings and a few photographs, including material related to The Eternal Light.
Contains radio and television scripts, 1940s-1950s, some published, some typescript versions written by Wishengrad for The Eternal Light. Also includes a few scripts for Have Seen the Light, WQXR, 1947, Birthday of the World, 1950s, for ABC, and the NBC Inter-American University of the Air, 1944.
Includes correspondence and other files of WEED, Rocky Mount, NC and scattered files of WBAR, Bartow, FL, both of which were owned by William Avera Wynne. The WEED files include program logs, channel surveys and communications with the FCC and both the NBC and ABC radio network offices.
Repository/Collector:
Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Consists primarily of correspondence and legal papers relating to the financial affairs of Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre as handled by Welles's personal attorney, L. Arnold Weissberger. Includes copies of contracts and agreements between Welles and Columbia Artists as his representative, between Welles and RKO, other legal documents relating to Mercury Theatre insurance policies for both Orson and Virginia Welles and photographs, mostly of theatre productions and performers.
Consists of the correspondence, papers and memorabilia relating to the career of Orson Welles. Includes 142 bound scripts and more than 140 sound recordings for most of the programs and series in which Welles appeared after 1937, including Mercury Theatre on the Air, Campbell Playhouse, Orson Welles Almanac (Lady Esther), Ceiling Unlimited, Hello Americans, This Is My Best and Mercury Summer Theatre. See detailed online finding aid at www.indiana.edu/~liblilly/lilly/mss/html/welles.html. See also Weissberger Mss. Collection for additional Welles radio related material and additional Welles collection covering his film career.
Consists of correspondence, writings and memorabilia of William Anthony Parker White, critic, editor and writer most widely known by the pseudonym Anthony Boucher. Includes scripts and extensive files for the series Adventures of Ellery Queen, The Casebook of Gregory Hood and Sherlock Holmes, all dating from the mid-1940s.
Consists mostly of scripts for NBC affiliated, Chicago based programs collected by William Wokoun. Includes The Guiding Light, Captain Midnight, Lone Journey, Ma Perkins, Masquerade, The Road of Life, Today's Children, Vic and Sade and Woman in White. Also includes emcee scripts for music and variety shows and commercial scripts for various products and companies. See online finding aid for complete list.
Includes a few radio plays by Dorothy Markey, a writer, union activist and communist who wrote under the name Myra Page in the 1930s-1950s. The radio plays are included in the "Short Writings" folder and are identified by name.
Repository/Collector:
Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Contains virtually complete documentation of her professional writing career, including radio plays, 1922-1947, and a transcript of a radio talk, 1947. See online finding aid for details.
Repository/Collector:
Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin
This collection includes print materials related to the development and organization of NPR, as well as the program archive consisting of over 100,000 audio tapes beginning with the first broadcast in 1971.
Repository/Collector:
Special Collections in Mass Media & Culture, University of Maryland
WRUC - Union College; Producer: Radio Division, Department of Theater Arts, University of California at Los Angeles and Audio-Visual Aids Section of the Los Angeles City Schools
Near complete collection of recordings of NBC Symphony Orchestra broadcasts plus some recordings of radio programs of Toscanini conducting the New York Philharmonic.
Contains approximately 150,000 discs from the early 1930s to the late 1960s, including comedy, drama, public affairs, musical variety, sports, news, information and international shortwave broadcasts. Everything recorded through 1953, plus a selection of programs after 1953, has been preserved and is cataloged on SONIC. Also check the publication "Radio Broadcasts in the Library of Congress, 1924-1941," (LOC, 1982).
Contains materials relating to the General Motors's show, The Parade of the States: A Tribute to Nebraska, broadcast on April 25, 1932 over the NBC network.
Martin Bookspan interviews American composer and pianist Netty Simons. Simons talks about her studies at New York University with Percy Grainger, and later privately with Stefan Wolpe. She speaks about both of her teachers, and compares their personalities and their influences on her works. She discusses avant-garde music, and her career as a composer. The composer also talks about each of the following works, excerpts of which are then played during the interview: Trialogue no. 1: the tombstone told when she died and Trialogue no. 2: myselves grieve (for mezzo-soprano, baritone and viola; text by Dylan Thomas), Silver thaw (for 1 to 8 players) (1969), Five sprays of the snow fountain (for two pianos) (1970); and reads fragments from two poems by D. Thomas.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Contains tape recordings, slides, newspaper clippings, correspondence and financial records relating to Rasins's Latvian American broadcasting and other Latvian American community activities in Colorado Springs, CO and the Twin Cities, MN.
Repository/Collector:
Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota
Consists mainly of scripts along with budgets, treatments, correspondence, research materials, contracts, outlines and synopses for many of the radio, television and motion pictures written or produced by Niss, plus professional correspondence, two scrapbooks, 94 phonograph records, an audio tape for Twenty-first Precinct, 1954-1955, one phonograph record for Gang Busters, 1954, material related to Charlie Wild, Private Detective and other television and film related material.
Contains writings about Peale in articles, clippings and publications, along with writings by Peale, including articles, booklets, radio addresses, 1936-1945, a handbook and sermons.
Scripts for a series of broadcasts over KWSC. Written by Milo Wesley Goss, the scripts include biographies of John Akins, Lulu Downen, George Draper, Clifford Drury, Garret Kincaid and May Squires.
Repository/Collector:
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University
WGLT is licensed to Illinois State University and is affiliated with NPR. It was originally a student operated radio station, signing on the air on April 24th, 1962 as a closed circuit radio station. A few years later, on February 4, 1966, the station received FCC licensing and began FM boradcasting. The station became a full NPR member in the 1970's. Both the audio and paper records are unprocessed. In the past year, the university archivist and the station’s general manager (along with a School of Communication professor) started the process to inventory all the audio and paper records.
Content types:
Performed music, Sounds, Spoken word, and Text
Formats:
Open reel tape (unknown material), VHS (including SVHS and VHS-C), and 8-track cassette
A phonograph record and transcript of the May 28, 1952 student raid on WVBR and the broadcasting of music and a false news report concerning Russian bombings of London and Marseilles.
Transcripts, on microform, of the Radio Pioneers Oral History Project from Columbia University. (See full listing under Columbia University Collections.)
Radio and television scripts written by Frank Siedel. See related Anson F. Hardman collection on the development and production of the program. Sound recordings and films of the program are located in the Audio-Visual collection. The program was broadcast on WTAM.
Broadcasting to the world the latest information from the oil fields of Texas, Arkansas and the Great Southwest, March 26, 1923. Note: This may be a transcript of a broadcast.
Repository/Collector:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University
Contains personal and professional papers, including materials and photographs relating to the comedy team of Olsen and Johnson and their shows. Materials range from their vaudeville days beginning in the 1920s through their success on Broadway and radio in the 1930s and 1940s to their later years performing in smaller venues in the 1950s. Includes radio scripts from 1930s and 1950s.
Repository/Collector:
Manuscripts and Visual Collections Department, William Henry Smith Memorial Library
A very small collection containing some papers, scripts and recordings. The only radio related item is a recording of the "War of the Worlds," Mercury Theatre of the Air program.
Includes course information, papers, correspondence and research projects relating to the Communications classes that Rich taught at BYU and an autobiography of his career in broadcast education involving KBYU.
Photocopies of papers selected from KPFA, Berkeley files by Vera S. Hopkins, a retired staff member, to document the founding, development and problems of listener sponsored radio, 1946-1984. Emphasis is on the early history of Pacifica and on KPFA.
Repository/Collector:
Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley
A dozen reels of NBC programs, 1927, 1929, that were "recorded" onto an experimental sound-on-film format that led to the development of the RCA Photophone system. The programs include Walter Damrosch conducting the GE Symphony Orchestra.
Contains music scores, manuscript scores, phonograph records, correspondence, music journals, photographs and guitar music manuals. Papas performed live on WCAP.
Includes typescripts from Van Valkenburgh's program, Sheriff's Story, a weekly program produced by KTUC, 1948-1951, concerning law enforcement, crime and criminals in Pima County.
Contains papers relating to Sullivan's involvement with the production of Blue and Gray, Fall, 1946-May 26, 1951 and Radio Forum from its origins in 1946. Includes scripts and correspondence. Both programs were coordinated by the campus radio station WGTB and WARL, Arlington, VA.
Primarily scripts of Swing's radio broadcasts, including those presented on the Voice of America. Also includes correspondence, lectures, addresses, articles and other papers. See Recorded Sound section for audio recordings of Swing's broadcasts.
Personal and official correspondence, diary, orders to duty, awards, citations, transcripts of radio broadcasts, memoranda and clippings relating to Wilkinson's duties as deputy commander, South Pacific area.
Contains correspondence, speeches and writings, lectures, business records, family papers, scripts, programs, playbills, publicity material, photographs and other papers relating to Price's career and other interests.
Prose manuscripts, related correspondence, notes, printed material, and audio tapes of Thomson. Included are notes and drafts of many of Thomson's early articles, and numerous manuscripts of columns published in the HERALD TRIBUNE in the 1940s. Thomson's special interests reflected in these writings are modern music, American hymns, and the performance of music in Europe. Also, 125 reels of tapes of Thomson's program on radio station WNCN (New York), 1969-1970.
Formats:
Open reel tape (unknown material)
Extent:
17 boxes, 1 oversize folder, 125 audio tape reels
Repository/Collector:
Rare Book and Manuscript Collections, Butler Library
The collection consists of 5 folders of mimeographs of Ralph W. Sockman's addresses from the National Broadcasting Company's (NBC) radio program the National radio pulpit.
Extent:
0.25 linear feet
Repository/Collector:
Rare Book and Manuscript Collections, Butler Library
Susan Stamberg is best known as a co-host on National Public Radio's All Things Considered from 1971 to 1986 and as the host of Weekend Edition Sunday from its inception in 1987 to 1989. In her later career in the 1990s, she worked as a cultural reporter on various NPR newsmagazines. The bulk of the collection documents Stamberg's career at WAMU in Washington, DC and her career at NPR from 1971 until 2011. It also contains materials from numerous other projects, including her books Every Night at Five, The Wedding Cake in the Middle of the Road, Talk, and her other writings
Repository/Collector:
Special Collections in Mass Media & Culture, University of Maryland
Includes manuscripts for mystery stories written by Wilson as well as scripts for radio shows she did on WHYY, Philadelphia, including Story Teller's Holiday, Poet's Place and other papers.
Repository/Collector:
Temple University Libraries, Special Collections Research Center
Includes two audio tapes of Stone's radio interviews of 10 producers and actors, including Cecil B. De Mille, Ed Wynne and Eddie Cantor, and other papers relating to her acting and producing careers. Stone was a radio personality in the 1940s. The catalog lists the names of the 10 interviewees but not the dates of the interviews.
Contains mainly scripts for radio and television programs written by Singer, 1944-1969. Includes scripts for The Phil Harris/Alice Faye Show and The Sealtest Village Store.
Contains mainly scripts for radio, television, theater and motion pictures written by Stark along with miscellaneous other materials, 1942-1986. Includes scripts for American School of the Air and Straight Arrow. Stark also wrote for The Lone Ranger and Escape.
Papers documenting Trout's career as a radio and television news broadcaster, 1931-1992. The "Broadcasting Files, bulk 1931-1974," include material relating to Trout's career with CBS, NBC, ABC, WSJV, WCBS and National Public Radio. Includes material relating to Franklin D. Roosevelt, political conventions, presidential elections, fireside chats, D-Day, World War II-European theater, United Nations, Dwight D. Eisenhower, King George, Queen Elizabeth and the following programs: Perspectives, Political Broadcasts, World News Round-Up, Professor Quiz and Who Said That?
Repository/Collector:
Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin
Contains correspondence, financial records, manuscripts, subject files and sound recordings of his programs Notre Dame Authors and The Story of Notre Dame, ca. 1940s. Check online finding aid for details.
Repository/Collector:
University of Notre Dame Archives, University of Notre Dame du Lac
The bulk of the papers pertains to Weaver's professional career, beginning with his employment as an advertising executive at Young & Rubicam in the late 1940s. His subsequent years at NBC are also represented although the majority of the collection relates to Weaver's various endeavors after resigning as chairman of the network.
Papers of the radio and television writer best known for Vic and Sade. Scripts for this radio program comprise the bulk of the collection but there are also materials pertaining to Keystone Chronicles, The Public Life of Cliff Norton and other programs which Rhymer wrote either as an NBC staff member or as a freelance writer. Also includes a few recordings of Vic and Sade, general correspondence, articles about Rhymer and Mrs. Rhymer's book about the Vic and Sade program.
Papers relating to Wolff's career as a writer and producer of award-winning television documentaries best known for his work for CBS News. Also includes some WBBM scripts and material on documentary radio programs.
Includes correspondence, scripts, speeches, articles, reports, press releases and clippings. Half of the collection consists of files on his produced and unproduced writings for television, motion pictures, radio and the theater.
A script writer for radio. The bulk of the collection consists of the scripts she wrote between 1943-1978, including Merlin the Storyteller, Eye Witness, Cavalcade of America and Let's Meet the Ladies. Some of the scripts include notes, research or memos relating to them. Also includes personal papers and tape recordings of some of the programs.
Consists of scripts, clippings, pressbooks, scrapbooks, programs, photographs, awards, records, correspondence and miscellaneous material related to Russell's career. Also includes papers related to Russell's husband, Frederick Brisson, who served as chief of radio propaganda and special consultant to the Secretary of War during World War II. Includes radio sketches on which Russell appeared for the Special Services Division, A.S.F. and also material related to the Office of Radio Production.
Repository/Collector:
Arts Library, Special Collections, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
Consists mostly of scripts for films and television, but also includes radio scripts he wrote for WLW, Cincinnati, OH, 1950-1951, and some unidentified radio scripts, 1947-1950. Also includes correspondence and business records, primarily 1966-1968.
Repository/Collector:
Department of Special Collections, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
Consists of literary manuscripts, correspondence, cassette tapes and other printed material. Includes the radio play "40-40" co-written with Studs Terkel for a WPA broadcast with related correspondence and a second play, "Columbus," for an unidentified program. Neither play script is dated.
Repository/Collector:
Department of Special Collections, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
After World War II, Sakai hosted the radio program Amerika Dayori (News from America). The collection consists of Sakai's correspondence, manuscripts, published works, notebooks and diaries.
Repository/Collector:
Department of Special Collections, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
Transcripts and other material related to the series of 17 radio discussion programs sponsored by the War Information Center of the University of Rochester in the fall of 1942 and broadcast over WHAM.
Contains correspondence, minutes of meetings, project reports, contest entries, radio scripts, photographs and scrapbooks collected or prepared by Warfield, Chairman of the Six Federated Clubs of Clarkston, for the club's entry in the "Build Freedom with Youth" contest sponsored by the General Federation of Women's Clubs.
Repository/Collector:
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University
Transcription discs of local radio broadcasts, 1946-1964, primarily of contemporary classical music performances and including some broadcasts of premieres (world premieres, first radio broadcasts, and first Washington performances), recorded by Rothschild, and some live recordings from Chamber Music Society of Baltimore concerts. Radio stations recorded include WBAL, WJZ, WCAO, WFBR, WITH, and WRC. The collection also includes several popular and jazz recordings, commercial releases, and some private home performances. Recordings of Chamber Music Society of Baltimore concerts and local radio broadcasts on reel-to-reel tapes, 1955-1991. The collection includes several world premieres from CMS concerts and other notable performances in broadcasts (first Washington performances, etc.). Radio recordings are concentrated in earlier recordings while CMS performances are concentrated later. The collection also includes a large subsection of recordings from Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz.
Content types:
Notated music, Performed music, Still image, and Text
Formats:
Lacquer disc, Analog audiocassette, Polyester open reel tape, and Acetate open reel tape
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.
Contains papers related to Regan's career as a broadcaster in Philadelphia, including correspondence, clippings, printed materials, a scrapbook, uncataloged photographs and sound recordings.
Martin Bookspan interviews American composer, pianist, and writer on music Phillip Ramey. Ramey comments on his studies composition at DePaul University in Chicago; on his teacher, composer Alexander Tcherepnin; and about musical traditions in Chicago. He talks about his career as a pianist and composer. He discusses each of the following works, which are then played in their entirety: Piano sonata no. 1, Night music (for percussion), Commentaries (for flute and piano), Leningrad rag (freely based on Scott Joplin's Gladiolus rag), 5 Epigrams for piano, 3 Epigrams for violin and piano, and Piano fantasy.
Content types:
Sounds
Formats:
CD
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Includes a 1939 program for the WVVA Jamboree and a Doc Williams Border Riders family album, ca. 1935-1945. Additional collections, listed separately under "publications" in the online catalog include a WWVA 1936 Flood Souvenir program, a WHIS Freedom for All broadcast in conjunction with a 1950 Bluefield Coal Show, a 1948 WMMN family album program, a 1951 WWVA 25th Anniversary booklet and a WPAR radio bulletin for the Farm Chat Program, 1936.
Repository/Collector:
The Cultural Center, Capitol Complex, West Virginia Division of Culture and History