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.