Includes papers relating to Hoover's involvement in regulating radio as Secretary of Commerce, 1921-1928. The library is operated by the National Archives.
In addition to a large number of artifacts from the company, the collection includes eight cassettes of the Fitch Bandwagon, March, 1945-May, 1945 and 18 issues of the monthly newsletter, "Bandwagon News."
Includes letters written in support of Driftmier's candidacy for the Iowa Mother of the Year Award, newspaper clippings about her career, family sketches taken from a scrapbook and a published memoir by Driftmier's daughter, Lucile Verness. A radio broadcaster, Driftmier was the founder of Kitchen-Klatter on KFNF, Shenandoah, IA.
Repository/Collector:
Iowa Women's Archives at the University of Iowa Libraries, University of Iowa
Includes biographical material, scripts of Homemaker's Half-Hour, 1945-1964, and other papers. Sunderlin was also the host of the children's program, Storybook Lady, later changed to The Children's Corner, broadcast on WOI, 1940-1958. She was also associated with the Radio Child Study Club program.
Papers primarily document Stirlen's life work as a radio minister on KFNF and KMA, Shenandoah, IA, including over three decades of transcripts of sermons. Also includes the prayers and announcements she read on the radio during her program, printed prayer pamphlets, postcards, calendars and copies of the magazine she sent out to keep in touch with her listeners.
Repository/Collector:
Iowa Women's Archives at the University of Iowa Libraries, University of Iowa
A farm magazine writer, Wherry also wrote scripts for radio in the 1930s and 1940s. Collection includes manuscripts for the WSUI program Country Landscape that aired between 1940-1941.
Repository/Collector:
Iowa Women's Archives at the University of Iowa Libraries, University of Iowa
Includes interviews and radio programs about women and sports conducted and produced by Englander for WSUI, n.d. As of 2005, the collection is unprocessed.
Repository/Collector:
Iowa Women's Archives at the University of Iowa Libraries, University of Iowa
Contains correspondence, addresses, reports, newspaper clippings, printed material and other papers relating to his career as head of the Farm Department of WHO, Des Moines, 1936-1970.
Odell was the host of radio and television programs, 1950s-1970s, in Des Moines and Chicago. Collection includes some newspaper clippings relating to her radio work in the 1950s.
Repository/Collector:
Iowa Women's Archives at the University of Iowa Libraries, University of Iowa
Consists of manuscripts, clippings, correspondence, diaries, transcripts of radio discussions, scrapbooks and photographs relating to his work in agriculture.
Contains scripts from programs, mostly Homemaker's Half Hour, which were broadcast over WOI and sponsored by the University's Textiles and Clothing Dept. (Program titles for the other scripts are not indicated.) The programs focused on dressmaking, general fabric care and laundry tips. Most of the bound scripts come with a title page listing the author/speaker and title(s) of the speech. (In University Archives)