Contains 130,000 78rpms, principally jazz and popular music, dating from the earliest days of recorded music to the 1950s. Includes thousands of radio transcription discs. Access to collection is by the Rigler and Deutsch Record Index.
Repository/Collector:
University of North Texas Music Library, University of North Texas
The center maintains a collection of oral histories, photographs and manuscripts related to Austin personalities, history and business. To check whether any of the collections include material relating to radio, users can submit an online query.
As of spring, 2005, the collection was partially processed. The portion of the collection that can be accessed by researchers does include some radio plays and possibly other radio related material.
Repository/Collector:
Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin
Includes tapes of KUT broadcasts of UT Music and Musicians featuring UT faculty, students and guest artists such as Percy Grainger. A list of the contents of most of the tapes is available.
Repository/Collector:
Fine Arts Library,The University of Texas at Austin
Contains approximately 700 tapes and discs dating from the mid-1940s. Check library's in-house database if any of these are radio broadcasts. An annotated chronological list is available.
Repository/Collector:
Fine Arts Library,The University of Texas at Austin
Includes correspondence, song lyrics, music, literary productions, diaries and logs, scrapbooks, classified files, financial records, photographs, phonograph recordings, audio tapes, newspaper and magazine clippings, radio scripts, 1941-1945 and n.d., other radio related material and scrapbooks.
Repository/Collector:
Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin