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.