Includes articles, scripts and photographs of Tait Cummins, a sports writer and broadcaster in Cedar Rapids. His second wife, Dorothy Ireland Cummins, also worked at WMT.
Contains transcripts of Field's program, the Letter Basket, broadcast on KFNF, station publications, programming schedules, postcards and photographs of radio personalities. The collection provides an account of the development of commercial radio.
Contains papers relating to Ackley's career with KSO and KRNT, Des Moines owned by the Iowa Broadcasting Co. Ackely was a newscaster and master of ceremonies for special programming, transcriptionist and music director. Includes scripts, ephemera, a scrapbook and photographs.
Includes scripts for Have You Heard, written by Edith Webber in the 1940s for WHO, Des Moines. The program included book reviews and commentary about fashion, music, historical figures, etc. Also includes material relating to George Webber's career as the founder of KWDM-AM in 1948 which became KWKY in 1959 after it was sold to 3M. George Webber also started KWDM-FM in 1964.
Includes newsletters, souvenir programs, newsclippings, files on WHO, Des Moines radio and television history, information about the station's founder, B. J. Palmer, and scrapbooks.
Includes hundreds of transcription discs dating from the 1930s and reel-to-reel tapes of WHO programs, including many wartime broadcasts by Jack Shelley and Herb Plambeck, and hundreds of sporting events called by Jim Zabel.
Includes scripts by Ross for Mr. & Mrs. Blandings and Suspense, three recordings of Suspense and other papers related to his television and film career. See online finding aid for list of other scripts which are not identified as being radio or television.
Includes correspondence, minutes of the board of directors, convention reports, financial records and committee and membership files. Also includes copies of the organization's publications such as the "Commentator" and "RTNDA Bulletin." Correspondents include Edward R. Murrow. As of 2005, much of the collection remains in a semiprocessed and/or unprocessed state although there is an online finding aid.
Contains biographical information in the form of newspaper clippings and feature articles about Atkinson. Also includes letters and cards of thanks she received following her performances and lectures, several performance programs and announcements and materials pertaining to her 1997 Woman of the Year Award. Beginning in 1943, Atkinson had a radio show on WMT during which she sang songs in response to listener requests. In 1952 she began serving as a typist and Spanish translator in the editing department of Collins Radio (now part of Rockwell International) and later became a production scheduler. For additional information about material related to her radio career check the finding aid.
Repository/Collector:
Iowa Women's Archives at the University of Iowa Libraries, University of Iowa
Consists of correspondence, printed matter, farm market related news broadcasts, market research data, surveys and related papers involving his broadcasts on WOI which were heard on 26 additional stations.
Collection is divided into several series. The Birkby series contains clippings about Birkby, including a 1991 "New Yorker" article by Jane and Michael Stern that relates the history of KMA and KFNF and the radio homemakers and includes an interview with Evelyn and Robert Birkby. The KFNF and KMA series, 1926-1987, contains primarily newsletters and recipe books, some taken from the homemakers' programs. Among the homemakers featured are Jessie S. Young, Edith Hansen, Florence Falk, Evelyn Birkby and Billie Oakley. The KMA Radio series also in cludes a small collection of photographs. The Miscellaneous Radio Homemaker materials includes books by radio homemakers from South Dakota and Oklahoma. The Photographs series, 1948-1965 and n.d., consists of photographs of Birkby and other radio homemakers. The Audiovisual series includes a video documentary about the radio homemakers and audio tapes of radio homemaker programs.
Repository/Collector:
Iowa Women's Archives at the University of Iowa Libraries, University of Iowa
Includes correspondence, reports, radio talks, 1948-1971, memoranda, minutes, teaching notes, lectures, biographical information, photographs and other papers. Bulk of material relates to agricultural and home economics extension work in Iowa and food production during World Wars I and II.
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)