Includes papers relating to WCSC-AM and WXTC-FM, Charleston, SC owned by the Rivers family which owned WCSC, Inc. Collection also includes some unidentified sound recordings that were received by WCSC as promotional items. Access to these discs may be restricted. See also the separate listing for the John Rivers Communications Museum in Charleston, SC.
Repository/Collector:
Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Papers document Jones's primary career as an executive for several major advertising agencies, including the Leo Burnett Company, Campbell-Ewald Company, D.P. Brother and Company, Wilding Advertising and William R. Biggs/Gilmore Associates. Materials consist primarily of correspondence, memoranda, notes, reports, scripts and audio visual materials that document the development of print, radio and television advertising campaigns for a wide variety of clients. The bulk of the materials appear to deal with television.
Repository/Collector:
John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising and Marketing History
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
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
Fifteen reels of audio tape containing radio commercials, programs for Won's Frozen Chinese Foods and Schlitz beer, the radio show Ford Startime and some unidentified radio programs.
Repository/Collector:
John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising and Marketing History