This collection contains materials collected by Roy Wetzel, a broadcast journalist and NBC News executive, related primarily to U.S. politics and elections. It includes audio recordings of broadcasts taped from radio stations such as WJR, a CBS affliliate station based in Detroit, Michigan, made during the 1950s.
The vast majority of the collection is the full contents of the Leo Sarkisian Music Library transferred from the Voice of America in Washington, D.C. to the University of Michigan for preservation, teaching, and research use. The media library supported Sarkisian’s research and recording career at VOA (1963-2012) and served as the principal analog audio resources for the production of the Music Time in Africa radio show. The collection also includes personal papers and memorabilia from Leo Sarkisian and his wife Mary. New materials in digital form are added to the collection as tape recordings and personal papers are digitized.
Content types:
Performed music, Still image, and Text
Formats:
Pressed LP disc, Pressed 45rpm disc, Optical disc (including CD, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-R, DVD-RW, VCD), Analog audiocassette, Polyester open reel tape, Acetate open reel tape, Digital audio file (including MP3, WAV, AIFF, etc.), Photographic negative, and Text document
Includes documentation of the dispute between Interlochen and James C. Petrillo, head of the American Federation of Musicians, over the use of non-union amateur musicians in the radio broadcasts of Interlochen performances.
Repository/Collector:
Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan
Contains correspondence and other materials relating to his career with the hospital, including radio scripts on Michigan topics prepared for the broadcasting service of the university.
Repository/Collector:
Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan
Includes recordings of This is Washington, radio reports to his constituents on his senatorial activities, 1951, and Meet Your Congress, 1951, 1953-1954, containing discussions of politics, domestic and foreign policy during the Eisenhower administration and other issues of then current interest. Also includes recordings of additional radio programs and 1940 campaign broadcasts.
Repository/Collector:
Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan
Contains papers relating to Blumenshine's career withWOOD-AM and FM during the 1960s. Also includes details of WOTV policy, procedures and staff and examples of both audio and audio visual tapes used in broadcasting.
Records include production logs, 1945-1946, radio scripts, 1942-1952 and n.d., radio scrapbook poems, 1948-1953, and miscellaneous reports, news releases, surveys and other materials.
Sound recordings of Echoes of a Century, a series of programs broadcast on 150 stations throughout the United States illustrating the story of Holland, MI from the origins of the Dutch settlers' decision to immigrate to the New World to the then present-day.
Contains bound and unbound transcripts of radio sermons, mostly from the 1930s, some sound recordings, personal papers, correspondence, issues of "Social Justice" and other papers by and about Coughlin.
Repository/Collector:
National Shrine of the Little Flower Catholic Church
Includes minutes of meetings, financial transactions, correspondence and station and contest logs. One bound volume contains early logs for WKAR, 1924, and W8SH, 1927-1931, as well as minutes of meetings, 1932-1936, a list of operators, 1927-1936, treasurer's reports, 1933, and vibration experiment notes, 1925. The records also include two boxes of QSL or "Radio Contact Cards," 1927-1950, arranged alphabetically by state and city. Certificates and commemorative QSL cards, 1929-1986, are filed separately.
Includes a complete bound set of William Cameron's talks, 1934-1942, and printed music programs, 1934-1942 and 1945-1946. Also contains two reel-to-reel audio recordings of Cameron's talks, September 1941-1942.
Includes correspondence, radio transcripts, scrapbooks and recordings of broadcasts. Cushing was a news editor and vice president of WJR, Detroit, MI and moderator of In Our Opinion.
Repository/Collector:
Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan
Contains papers relating to Detzer's work as a writer and editor for "Reader's Digest," including scripts and other papers concerning his activities as a script writer for radio, television and motion picture production.
Repository/Collector:
Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan
Contains correspondence, autobiography, reports, radio scripts and other papers relating to Sublette's career with the Detroit Civil Service Commission and his outside interests.
Contains correspondence, financial material and printed miscellanea largely concerning the operation of WJR, Detroit, MI and the history of radio broadcasting in general, including a transcript of an oral history interview and John F. Patt's remembrances of radio pioneer George A. Richards. Also includes a letter from Father Charles Coughlin, 1929, containing brief comments on religious broadcasting.
Repository/Collector:
Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan
A writer for radio and television and an advertising executive, the papers include scripts for I Remember Mama, The Firefighters and Reflections. Also includes materials relating to his other work.
Repository/Collector:
Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan