Includes cassettes of Lankes narrating and commenting on a variety of topics, including jazz bands, vaudeville, other music groups and Fred Allen's Chase and Sanborn Program.
Repository/Collector:
Special Collections Department, Alderman Memorial Library, University of Virginia
An eclectic collection of 41 cassettes with programs of historic interest, e.g., speeches of Winston Churchill, Adolph Hilter, the invasion of Normandy, the Hindenburg disaster, Charles Lindbergh, Amos 'n' Andy, Benny Goodman, etc. A complete list of titles is filed with the collection.
Contains papers relating to the founding of WRVA, Richmond in 1925 Virginia's first radio station. Includes daily program logs, 1925-1932, broadcast and publicity material, scrapbooks, photographs and some phonograph records. Lucy was an announcer, writer, producer, performer and general manager of the station during its early years. Also includes papers relating to the Lams & Brother Company, a tobacco firm that owned the station.
Repository/Collector:
Library Special Collections and Archives, Virginia Commonwealth University
Consists mostly of correspondence, a speech and notes, ca. 1932, regarding WMBG and WRVA. Lucy was a manager for WRVA and also worked for the Larus & Brother Company that owned WRVA.
A glossy print of a publicity photograph of the Carter sisters. Original photograph made by WRVA, Richmond, VA to advertise its Old Dominion Barn Dance program.
Repository/Collector:
Special Collections Department, Alderman Memorial Library, University of Virginia
Consists of papers and sound recordings that document the history of WRVA, Richmond, VA, the role the station played in Virginia and Richmond for over half-a-century and the development of radio in Virginia and the United States. Includes applause letters, minutes, anniversary booklets, program scripts, program guides, newsletters, histories, interviews, employee questionnaires, sales manuals, audience and sales promotions, rate cards, listener surveys, posters, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, FCC applications and reports, drawings, photographs and sound recordings, 1925-1999. All programs included in the collection are listed in the Index.
This printed text is a series of hearings and reports before the Committee on Un-American Activities, House of Representatives, Eighty-sixth Congress, second session.
Consists chiefly of manuscripts of her works, including poems, essays, articles, plays, speeches and lectures, reviews and an undated radio serial, The Dark Closet.
Repository/Collector:
Special Collections Department, Alderman Memorial Library, University of Virginia
Contains 402 reel-toreel tapes (226 original reels and 176 duplicates) of music tracks and original programming broadcast by Huddleston and the Hayden Huddleston Advertising Agency, 1924-1981, on over 350 stations across the United States and Canada. Programs represented on the tapes include Lazy Bill Huggin, Breakfast at the Ponce, Let's Go to Church, What's the Answer, The Hayden Huddleston Show, Claim to Fame, Klub Kwiz, Kiddie Kollege and Klassroom Kuiz. Also includes approximately 500 index cards containing questions used on the quiz shows, 1962-1981.
Contains scripts, 1941-1942, of radio interviews of August Dietz, Maude Howlett Woodfin and Louis Booker Wright concerning the publication of books about William Byrd.
Collection documents the history of WRNL and includes copies of newspaper articles, photographs and text tracing the history of the Richmond station founded in 1937. The station was the successor to WPHR, Petersburg, VA.
Contains music scores, manuscript scores, phonograph records, correspondence, music journals, photographs and guitar music manuals. Papas performed live on WCAP.
Consists of some publicity material, legal papers, other correspondence and sound recordings. Collection is held by the son of the program's creators. Mr. VanDeventer appeared on the program as "Bobby McGuire."
Preservation of audio-taped programming from faith groups. Originated with Methodist/United Methodist materials and expanded to include other religious groups. Programs are radio interviews and programs, as well as lectures, class presentations, sermons, and more. Collection created my Mike Hickcox originally with United Methodist Communications, the individually, then in collaboration with the United Methodist General Commission on Archives and History. The focus is to preserve significant audio presentations and make them available to be heard.
Content types:
Spoken word
Formats:
Digital audio file (including MP3, WAV, AIFF, etc.) and Open reel tape (unknown material)
We have a massive collection of about 50,000 recordings on CD and vinyl, in addition to both digital and tape airchecks spanning several decades. We also have program guides, advertisements, and station produced publications.
Content types:
Performed music, Spoken word, Still image, and Text
Formats:
Open reel tape (unknown material), Digital Audio Tape (DAT), Photographic print, Digital audio file (including MP3, WAV, AIFF, etc.), Pressed LP disc, Pressed 78rpm disc, Pressed 45rpm disc, Optical disc (Including CD, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-R, DVD-RW, VCD), Analog audiocassette, MiniDisc, Text document, Printed brochure, and Printed magazine