Papers documenting Burger's personal life and professional career in radio, television, public relations and consulting through scrapbooks, videotapes, notes and printed materials. Burger worked at CBS, 1941-1954.
Repository/Collector:
Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin
Includes papers relating to Formby's ownership of numerous radio stations in Texas, including KPAN in Hereford, KFLD in Floydada, KTVE in Tulia, KSML in Seminole, KACT in Andrews and KLVT in Levelland.
Repository/Collector:
Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University
With over 300,000 recordings on tape, disc, cylinder, and piano roll, the Historical Music Recordings Collection is both the depository for University of Texas at Austin recordings and those of select orchestras, radio stations, national and international arts organizations. Named collections within the HMRC include: Irving Feld Radio Dramas; UT Radio House Transcription Discs; Mary Henrietta Chase Collection of Bing Crosby Lacquer Discs; KUT open-reel tape; Longhorn Radio Network open-reel tape; KMFA "20th century Romantics"; Austin Symphony Orchestra; Houston Symphony Orchestra; HMRC-CDs; 16-inch transcription discs (general collection).
Content types:
Performed music, Sounds (Other than music & language), and Spoken word
Formats:
Pressed LP disc, Pressed 78rpm disc, Pressed 45rpm disc, Lacquer disc, Optical disc (including CD, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-R, DVD-RW, VCD), Metal disc, LaserDisc, Cylinder, Analog audiocassette, Digital compact cassette, Digital Audio Tape (DAT), Polyester open reel tape, Acetate open reel tape, Motion picture film, VHS (including SVHS and VHS-C), Betamax, U-matic (including U-matic S), Text document, and Piano rolls
Extent:
300,000 items
Repository/Collector:
The University of Texas at Austin, Fine Arts Library
Reel-to-reel and cassette tapes, with performances by numerous Swing-Era bands including Artie Shaw, Count Basie, and many others. The principal focus of the collection, however, is Benny Goodman, with live performances, airchecks, and electrical transcriptions.
Content types:
Performed music
Formats:
Analog audiocassette, Polyester open reel tape, and Acetate open reel tape
A very large amount of sheet music, both popular and classical, including a significant segment of choral and sacred works from when WOR employed an in-house radio orchestra.
Memorabilia from a classical music radio station in New York City, WNCN 104.3, and includes items reflecting efforts by its Listeners Guild to keep the station on the air in a classical format.
Includes approximately 1,700 tapes of the following radio drama series: The Black Museum, The Detectives, NBC University Theater, Theatre Royal, Suspense, The Queen's Men, The Lives of Harry Lime, Inner Sanctum and The Scarlet Pimpernel. A list of the contents of most of the tapes is available.
Repository/Collector:
Fine Arts Library,The University of Texas at Austin
Collection documents individual performers and minstrel show companies, including touring companies and contains material on Daily Paskman's Radio Minstrels.
Repository/Collector:
Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin
Consists of materials that are primarily visual in nature and portray approximately 1,700 musicians and musical groups, including Billy Carlin, Paul Whiteman, Anne Shirley, the WIOD Orchestra, Rudy Vallee and Eddie Cantor.
Repository/Collector:
Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin
Papers and audio tapes relating to Toscanini and the NBC Symphony. Tapes (approximately 500 10" reels) include a complete set of tapes for Toscanini: The Man Behind the Legend, including the Toscanini Centennial Series, 1961-1967, interview tapes recorded for the show and tapes of a few rehearsals. Papers include guest lists, scripts, correspondence, station lists, publicity materials, etc. Gillis was a producer at NBC during the Toscanini era.
Repository/Collector:
University of North Texas Music Library, University of North Texas
Contains papers documenting Cronkite's career as a United Press wire reporter and war correspondent before joining CBS in 1950. A second collection, "CBS Evening News Archive, 1962-1981," documents Cronkite's television program.
Repository/Collector:
Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin
Includes manuscripts for two radio plays: "Three Outcasts," which dramatizes the stereotypes found in children's rhyme and "The Circular Road," which explores a child's bereavement in the Jewish-Irish community. Names of programs on which the plays were broadcast is not shown.
Repository/Collector:
Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin
Over 250 16-inch broadcast transcriptions dated from July of 1941 through February of 1950, divided more or less evenly between news material (principally from the NBC "Blue" network) and "classical" music: largely orchestral music, with some opera selections.