Includes an incomplete set of scripts and programs, scrapbooks, correspondence and newsclippings concerning radio programs on technology and science aired on The World Is Yours.
Forty oral history interviews (tapes and transcripts) conducted between 1970 and 1975. Also contains address and cast lists for One Man's Family, original scripts for August 16 and 19, 1936, and program ephemera. Also newsclippings, "Random Reflections," written by Morse, 1972-1974, photographs of Morse and his family and a video "Good Old Days of Radio," narrated by Steve Allen, n.d.
Papers relating to broadcasting outlets (radio and television), mostly in North Dakota, but also in South Dakota and Virgin Islands owned by Boler and his other business and political activities.
The Radio Scripts collection consists of transcripts of radio programs, both serials and single broadcasts. Among the radio series are "Freedom's People" sponsored by the Federal Security Agency of the U.S. Office of Education (1941-1942); "Give me Liberty" sponsored by the American Committee for Democracy and Intellectual Freedom (1939); "Native Sons" written by Kirk Lord and Frank Griffin; "National Urban League" sponsored by the organization of the same name during its annual Vocational Opportunity Campaign (1941-1951); "Unity at Home; Victory Abroad" consisting of speeches and dramatizations of the lives of African Americans and whites (1943); "New World A-Comin'" (1944-1966), and "Within Our Gates" presented by the Philadelphia Fellowship Commission to deal with the problem of intolerance and bigotry and to provide all citizens equal opportunity and equal rights (1945-1948). The largest group of scripts in the collection is from the radio series "New World A-Comin'." There are also several single scripts including, "Speech of Paul Robeson," "Hampton Institute Forum of the Air, 1944," "Lincoln, Douglas and the Honor Roll In the Race Relations," and "Wings over Jordan."
Content types:
Other
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Photographs depicting popular radio performers during World War II, often engaged in war conservation efforts. Approximately 1,500 photographs. ABC, CBS, MBS, NBC, WOR and WEVD are among the networks and stations represented. Also includes a series of photographs showing radio employees picking up short wave communications at the "listening posts," which were then transmitted to the News Room. Overall, this collection documents the impact not only of radio on troop morale but also of the war itself on home front entertainment. A complete list of entertainers is available in the Department of Prints, Photographs, and Architectural Collections.
Contains mainly personal correspondence between Goddard and her husband, Burgess Meredith, along with a biography of Goddard, obituaries, telegrams, postcards (original and transcribed), photographs and other material. Does not appear to contain any radio specific material.
Repository/Collector:
Jerome Lawrence & Robert E. Lee Theatre Research Institute
Consists of correspondence, biographical newspaper articles, broadcast scripts and advertisements, award certificates, travel itineraries and miscellaneous materials documenting Brine's 50 year career in broadcasting on WPRO, beginning as an announcer for Time, News and Temperature and later as the host of Salty's Shack, 1955-1968.
Scripts of 380 shows sponsored by the Union Electric Company of Missouri and broadcast first on KSD and later on KMOX. The shows present the history of the St. Louis area. Also includes photographs and recordings.
Includes correspondence with Harry Milton and others, broadcast transcripts, clippings, photographs and miscellany relating to the acquaintanceship of Milton with the British writer George Orwell in Spain during the Spanish Civil War.
More than 20,000 tapes of programs representing the full range of programming offered at the station over the years. The most complete holdings are programs dealing with local historical and political events. A finding aid is available in the repository.
Compilation of 50 discs containing educational programs produced under the auspices of the Portland Public Schools as well as programming produced by KGW or released from other affiliates. Programs include The American Challenge, a U.S. history series, Their Name was Courage, historical dramas about Washington state, Bill Scott, Forest Ranger, a conservation program sponsored by the U.S. Forest Service, live coverage of the 1941 Benson High School dance and a drama from Reed College, 1939.
Contains scrapbooks concerning her work with the WAVES, correspondence, press books, clips, photographs, etc. Barton was program director of the New York State Radio-TV Bureau.
Collection of scripts of broadcasts held on successive Tuesdays from October 18-December 20, 1938 covering topics concerning the Navajo Indians and the Navajo Reservation.
Repository/Collector:
Arizona State University Special Collections, Charles Hayden Library
Consists of approximately 14,000 phonograph records of broadcasts, including event reports, interviews and speeches with mayors, city officials and other dignitaries as well as programs of drama and music.
Contains transcripts of the Association's weekly radio and television program, Columbus Town Meeting, including opening statements for some of the broadcasts and other papers.
Contains radio and television scripts, script development notes, production files, correspondence, teaching materials, photographs, clippings, journal and magazine issues, artifacts, audio visual materials, original art, autographs, playbills, souvenir booklets, theatre and writer organizations materials, brochures and conference materials and posters. Includes scripts for Armed Forces Radio Service, Favorite Story, The Railroad Hour, Hallmark Playhouse, Young Love, The World We're Fighting For, Man About Hollywood, Songs by Sinatra, Lady Esther's Album, I WasThere, Meet Mr. Music, Saturday Morning, CBS Shows, The Little Show, Call For Music, Request Performance, The Unexpected and others. For a detailed list of radio scripts by program title and date check finding aid at: http://1ibrary.osu.edu/sites/speccoll/finding/LandL.html#series2.
Repository/Collector:
Jerome Lawrence & Robert E. Lee Theatre Research Institute
Collection of 25 recordings containing local and national news programs (NBC and ABC), including World War II and Korean War news and the historical series Mr. President. Local programs include the sports news program Radio Box Score and the country music program Neath Western Skies.
Collection of 400 discs containing local and national news programs (CBS), including reports on World War II, the Korean War and the Cold War as well as the speeches of Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Winston Churchill and others. Local programs include documentaries on the Tillamook Burn, 1943 and 1953, live reports on Kaiser shipyard launchings, 1941-1945, reports on the Vanport Flood, 1948, the Northwest Neighbors talk show, the historical drama "Song of the Columbia," the award-winning documentary on African-American physician Dr. Charles Drew entitled "Who Killed Dr. Drew," Kid Critics, featuring Portland area grade school children reviewing books, Pacific Power and Light and Northwest Electric commercials, 1941-1947, and a live concert with Jane Powell from Portland's South Park Blocks.
Contains transcripts of Axis and Allied propaganda broadcasts monitored by the Listening Center staff from November, 1939 through May, 1941. Also includes subject and research files of the organization.
Papers covering an overview of the company's sponsorship of several programs, including When A Girl Marries, 1939-1941, The Prudential Family Hour, 1945-1948, The Prudential Family Hour of Stars, 1948-1950 and The Jack Berch Program, 1945-1950?. Also includes scripts of the company's commercials for the programs.
Includes scripts of Women in the Making of America, 1939-1940, broadcast in cooperation with the WPA's Federal Theatre Radio Division, and Gallery of Women, a series produced by the University of Michigan, 1954, and broadcast in cooperation with the U.S. Office of Education. Also includes program outlines, posters and clippings.
Includes clippings about Jane Ashman's two radio programs, Americans All, Immigrants All, 1938, and Women in the Making of America, 1939, for which historian Mary Beard was a consultant.
Sound recording of broadcasts relating to the immigration of various national and ethnic groups to the United States. Also includes recordings of Treasury Star Parade , n.d.
Sound recordings with Elmer Holmes Davis relating to the outbreak of World War II. Includes recordings of radio addresses by leaders of the belligerent nations.
Transcripts of a series of radio talks delivered over WOSU by Oskar Seidlin relating to the 20th century German authors Franz Kafka, Rainer Maria Rilke and Thomas Mann.
Consists of manuscripts of three plays and an introduction compiled by James Boyd. The scripts were written as American propaganda plays and presented over CBS in the spring of 1941. Includes Boyd's "One More Free Man" (final title) and a mimeographed copy of Orson Welles's "His Honor, the Mayor" (annotated, probably by Boyd). The third play, "Above Suspicion," is ascribed to Sherwood Anderson although the play was not completed at his death. Anderson's idea was developed by the company and the play was presented in tribute to him.
Repository/Collector:
Princeton University Libraries, Rare Books and Special Collections
Transcription discs of the program. As of 2005, about 300+ programs have been transferred and plans are to transfer the remaining discs. Also see Adrian Michaelis Collection above.
"Many of these reel to reels and the 78s are segments, not actual broadcast recordings of lectures and recorded events. I have recordings of the events/interviews and stock background music but not the production pieces as they were aired from what I can discern."
Content types:
Sounds and Other
Formats:
Disc (Commercial, Homemade, Transcription) and Reel-to-reel