Address to American Legion, Chicago, Oct. 2, 1933. - FDR in Miami, Feb. 15, 1933: Makes an impromptu speech while driving in open car; Attempted assassination by Zangara [noise of shots, shouts of crowd; from a radio broadcast long after event, or from an aural biography?]; Mrs. F. W. Cross describes assissination attempt and how she deflected the aim of the gunman.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
This series consists of speeches, public appearances, and radio appearances by the South Carolina Commissioner of Agriculture. Materials include speech notes, talking points, and radio scripts.
The Frank E. and Anna Hayes Owens family papers comprises 14.3 linear feet of materials, spanning the dates between 1900 and 2011, and includes correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, travel brochures, reel-to-reel tapes, magazines, fanzines, and other materials documenting intergenerational American family life in Delaware.
Content types:
Performed music, Spoken word, Notated music, Text, and Still image
Formats:
Text document, Open reel tape (unknown material), and Photographic print
Extent:
Approximately 25 recordings, 14.3 linear feet and 1 oversize box (17 boxes)
Repository/Collector:
University of Delaware Library, Special Collections
Printed music and some manuscripts from Dallas-Fort Worth area radio stations WFAA and WBAP, accumulated through the decades in which they employed live radio orchestras.
Over 70,000 Old Time Radio Episodes freely available through our Library as well as an online Encyclopedia containing print and graphical resources and links to other sites for research.
Content types:
Spoken word, Still image, and Text
Formats:
Digital audio file (including MP3, WAV, AIFF, etc.)
Broadcasts on Polskie Radio i Telewizja, distributed to Polish Arts and Culture Foundation in the U.S., interviews with Polish scholars, filmmakers, artists and discussions of Polish art, science, literature, history.
Content types:
Spoken word
Formats:
Polyester open reel tape
Extent:
3 boxes (69 open reel tapes on 3", 5" and 7" reels))
Collection of recordings, photographs, sheet music, paper documents, and two films which document every aspect of the career of operatic tenor, Richard Crooks. Audio recordings are largely from the Voice of Firestone radio show, but also include audio cassettes of performances on CBC radio broadcasts.
Content types:
Notated music, Performed music, Still image, and Text
Formats:
Lacquer disc, Analog audiocassette, Polyester open reel tape, Motion picture film, Photographic print, and Text document
The collection consists of correspondence dealing with the Metropolitan Opera Regional Auditions; personal papers, mainly promotional documents, and biographical and/or pedagogical writings; newspaper and magazine clippings; annotated scores, programs, photos, scrapbooks and recordings. Recordings include opera broadcasts from the Metropolitan Opera which include Mario Chamlee, also his performance and rehearsal broadcasts on KFAC, and numerous transcription discs from his appearances on the Tony & Gus show in 1935 on WJZ.
Content types:
Notated music, Performed music, Spoken word, Still image, and Text
Formats:
Pressed 78rpm disc, Lacquer disc, Analog audiocassette, Polyester open reel tape, Photographic print, Text document, and Microfilm
Julian Price was a businessman, journalist, and civic leader. A native of Greensboro, NC, Price was the grandson of Jefferson Standard Insurance executive Julian Price (1867-1946). Price lived in Asheville, NC, from 1990 until his death in 2001, using his extensive wealth and philanthropic spirit to fuel a revitalization of Asheville’s downtown. Price was very interested in radio and print journalism, and recorded a number of interviews for broadcast on public radio stations. This collection contains over 50 cassette recordings of Price’s radio programs.
Content types:
Spoken word and Performed music
Formats:
Analog audiocassette, Optical disc (Including CD, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-R, DVD-RW, VCD), Text document, Photographic negative, Photographic print, and VHS (including SVHS and VHS-C)
Includes letters, mostly written by Benny to Frank Remley, the left-handed guitarist who played on the Benny radio shows. The letters are almost all comments on "Ripley's Believe It or Not!" articles.
An extensive collection dealing with humor in many genres. Includes the works of many humorists and comedians who performed on radio such as Fred Allen, George Bums, Gracie Allen and others.
Approximately 350 William and Mary scripts written as skits for the Dinah Shore Show, 1943-1944, with Cornelia Otis Skinner as Mary and Roland Young as William.
Contains manuscripts, correspondence, including letters from Guglielmo Marconi, Lee De Forest and Vladimir Zworykin, and memorabilia dealing with the early history of radio and wireless telegraphy.
Contains memoranda concerning National Policy Committee dinners and reports of meetings at which were discussed political and economic issues confronting the postwar world, including the press and radio in wartime.
An award winning documentary produced by the Southern Regional Council that chronicles the struggle to end segregation in the South. Collection is organized into five series: Interview transcripts, Audio visual materials, Scripts, Program research files and Production files.
Contains correspondence, reports, articles, program scripts, contracts, copyright certificates, program listings, publicity materials and form letters relating to the Department's involvement in administering its radio programs, including Children's Chapel and Invitation for Tomorrow, its television program light Time and its participation in the CBS radio program Church of the Air. See related file with Department minutes and agendas, 1941-1964.
Contains over 200 playscripts and radioscripts, written and performed between 1936-1939 for the Federal Theatre Project. Many of the scripts have been annotated with additional theatrical instructions, corrections and textual changes. Also includes copies of 62 programs and handbills.
Contains biographical information and papers pertaining to their professional careers in broadcasting, particularly KRXK, Rexburg, ID which they owned from the 1950s to the 1970s.
Repository/Collector:
Idaho State Historical Society, Historical Library
Includes print material and sound recordings of radio interviews of Weill and Lenya as well as programs about their works and plans for a series of radio operas.
The audio tape consists of air-checks used to send samples of Phillips's program, Red Hot and Blue, to other radio stations from WHBQ, Memphis, TN, April 18, 1952.
Correspondence, published and unpublished writings, subject files, financial and legal records, biographical material, memorabilia and Brewster and Murrow family papers and photographs chiefly dating from 1929-1965. Of particular note are letters written by and to the Murrows while they were in Great Britain during World War II which reflect his work as director of European broadcasting for CBS, Inc. and her duties as executive director of the London Committee of Bundles for Britain, Inc.
Includes correspondence documenting Chillman's active role in the Museum's weekly radio programs and public service radio spot announcements regarding museum events.
Contains scripts for spot announcements and programs broadcast on KTRH, KPRC and KTHT, 1938-1947. The announcements provided information about the Museum and its collection, new acquisitions, exhibitions, demonstrations, films, gallery talks, concerts and the Museum's hours. Scripts are included for the following programs: Look and Listen, 1939-1944, Art and Music, 1944, Art is Fun, 1943-1950, and Art Techniques, 1943-1944.
Consists primarily of advertisements for various Liggett & Myers tobacco products such as Chesterfield, Fatima and Piedmont cigarettes, ca. 1910-1950s, as well as advertisements for competitors during the 1970s. Also includes scripts for radio and television commercials, 1949-1961.
Includes annual reports, budgetary material on guest radio speakers, correspondence to and from the Indiana Broadcasters Association, radio department course and curriculum material, files on radio shows and I.U. spots, correspondence with radio station personnel around the country and files on television programming.
Repository/Collector:
University Archives, Indiana Univeristy, Bloomington
Includes family papers and productions and projects file documenting Cronyn and Tandy's stage, screen and television performances together and separately and Cronyn's directorial and theatrical production activities. Does not contain any radio material.
Daily schedules that give the radio and television programming between 5:00pm-12:00am for the MBS, ABC, CBS, and NBC networks. Gives ratings for each program and sponsors when applicable. Includes weekly daytime programming schedules beginning in May, 1950. Includes both network and local programs. These schedules were used by NBC sales staff for the purpose of selling NBC network airtime to advertisers and sponsors. Beginning in December, 1952 the back pages of the schedules feature interesting tidbits of information on NBC programs to entice potential sponsors. Some schedules have handwritten corrections.
Contains approximately 15,000 discs including news, documentaries, musical variety, dramas, comedies, soap operas, quiz shows and information. Collection also includes print materials, including scripts and papers relating to writer and producer Phillips H. Lord's programs, Gang Busters, 1937-1953, Counterspy and Policewoman, 1946-1947, and scripts for many of the radio adaptations of books by Kathleen Norris. The audio portion of the collection is searchable by program title in a published finding aid available in the Recorded Sound Reference Center.
The Bob Fass Recordings and Papers contains materials created by Bob Fass, host of the late-night program Radio Unnameable on New York City’s WBAI radio station. The collection primarily consists of audio recordings of Radio Unnameable and other radio programs hosted by Bob Fass between 1963 and 2011. A small number of video recordings, photographs, correspondence, printed ephemera, and motion picture films are also included in the collection.
Extent:
190 linear ft. (157 record cartons, 5 document boxes, 80 audiocassette boxes, and 18 flat boxes)
Repository/Collector:
Rare Book and Manuscript Collections, Butler Library
A privately held audio collection of approximately 85,000 hours of programs representing all genres. Also contains an extensive collection of print broadcast history materials, including books, scripts, program logs, magazines, ephemera and looseleaf binders containing mostly clippings from old radio magazines that are organized by program and/or performer.
Contains internal records, manuscripts, radio scripts, books and periodicals of the publishing company. Includes scripts for The Avenger, 1941 and n.d., Doc Savage, 1943, Chick Carter-Boy Detective, 1943-1945, Nick Carter, Master Detective, 1943-1955, and The Shadow (including Australian scripts and South American scripts in Portuguese), 1937-1954. See online list at https://library.syr.edu/digital/guides/s/street_smith.htm
Contains sound recordings of radio programs on issues related to the work of the Highlander Folk School, including labor issues with the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA).
Repository/Collector:
Southern Folklife Collection, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
An historical analysis of the broadcast and print media ownership in the top 100 U.S. markets between 1922 and 1967 prepared by Christopher H. Sterling for the National Association of Broadcasters.
Repository/Collector:
Temple University Libraries, Special Collections Research Center
Contains 80 volumes of scripts for One Man's Family and sound recordings of the shows. Also includes scripts for I Love a Mystery, 1939-1952, His Honor the Barber, Adventures by Morse, Family Skeleton, 1953-1954, Slice of Life, 1949, and Chinatown Tales (a.k.a. Chinatown Squad?), 1929, and 44 sound recordings of other shows.
Repository/Collector:
Temple University Libraries, Special Collections Research Center
Consists of scripts of many of the Hummerts' programs, including Just Plain Bill, Lorenzo Jones, Easy Aces, Young Widder Brown, Front Page Farrell, Lora Lawton, Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons, Orphans of Divorce, Backstage Wife, Stella Dallas, David Harum, Romance of Helen Trent, Our Gal Sunday, and John's Other Wife.
Contains materials relating to the Nelson family, their orchestra and radio and television programs, including Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, Red Skelton Show and Emmy Lou. Includes scripts for both the Nelson's radio and television programs and for other radio programs, the Orchestra's sheet music for instrumental parts, photographs of the Nelson family and the television show and phonograph records of radio broadcasts.
Includes scripts of Stories of Pacific Powerland, a five minute program sponsored by Pacific Power and Light Co. All 1,273 programs were narrated by Nelson Olmsted. Each program dealt with Western history, biography or folklore.
Consists largely of radio scripts written by Pickard and Provo for radio and television, including Wendy Warren and the News, 1947-1958, and occasional episodes for Young Dr. Malone. Also includes scripts from Australian Broadcasting Company programs that Pickard either wrote, directed or acted in (ca. 1932-1935) for the Australian Broadcasting Company prior to his emigration to the United States as well as presentation scripts for proposed television and radio series, manuscripts of plays and novels and correspondence.
Repository/Collector:
American Radio Archives, Thousand Oaks Library Foundation
Contains scripts for Mr. President, Boston Blackie, The Ginny Simms Show, Everything for the Boys, The Man Called X and Halls of Ivy plus correspondence, including Milton Merlin's involvement with various writers' organizations such as the Hollywood Writers Mobilization during World War II and the Radio Writers Guild in which he served as national president in the early 1950s.
Repository/Collector:
American Radio Archives, Thousand Oaks Library Foundation
Includes student written scripts for Radio Playshop, 1939-1953, and adaptations of literary classics for Radio Guild, 1946-1948, and other dramatic, public service and documentary series broadcast over the university station, WNUR.
The history of taverns and inns in Maine was prepared by the c hapters of the Daughters of the American Revolution for radio broadcasts in 1932 and 1933. Collection includes text of the broadcast aired February 12, 1932 on WCSH, Portland, ME.
Consists of contemporary syndicated rebroadcasts of classic radio programs, including Amos 'n' Andy, Burns and Allen, The Jack Benny Show, Dragnet, Suspense, CBS Radio Mystery Theater, Your Hit Parade and other programs.
Repository/Collector:
UCLA Film and Television Archives, University of California, Los Angeles
Includes originals and copies of clippings and photographs concerning her life and career in the theater, Women's Suffrage Movement, radio, agriculture, television, and politics.
Repository/Collector:
West Virgina & Regional History Center, West Virginia University
Four anniversary recordings made at WTMJ, Milwaukee, WI of the program celebrating the ninetieth anniversary of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad, November 20, 1940.
Microfilm of sponsor's corrected copies of scripts, including commercials, preserved by Johnson's Wax, a client of the advertising agency Needham, Harper and Steers. Also mcludes scripts for the series Hap Hazard, 1941.
Newsletters from an organization of collectors and fans of Vic and Sade containing news about members, collectibles and information on the program's scripts and productions.
Papers document the personal and professional activities of two radio and television personalities. Johnny Olson worked as an announcer at WTMJ, Milwaukee, 1933-1944, and WJZ, New York, 1944, before going on to emcee, with Penny as hostess, a number of radio shows, including Ladies Be Seated and Rumpus Room. Papers include scripts, correspondence, gag material and audience letters and response cards relating to Olson's radio career. The collection also includes unprocessed sound recordings of Olson's early radio program The Price ls Right.
Only a small portion of the sound recordings in the collection have been processed. These include recordings of "The First 50 Years of University of Wisconsin Broadcasting, 1919-1969" and coverage of the John F. Kennedy assassination. Paper records dealing with the station's history are also available in the University of Wisconsin Archives.
Papers of a radio and television producer-director and his actress-wife. Radio material, which is the most complete aspect of the collection, includes files of annotated scripts and correspondence for The Adventures of Sam Spade, Philip Morris Playhouse, Suspense and other series which Spier produced and directed for CBS.
Includes papers of Dorothy Stimson Bullitt who managed Stimson family real estate interests and in 1946 acquired a radio station which she expanded into the King Broadcasting Company, a regional radio and television network. Includes records of the King Broadcasting Company, 1933-1993, mainly from Bullitt's office, consisting of correspondence, memoranda, FCC applications and testimony, minutes, program schedules, production notes and scripts, annual reports, financial records, personnel policy documents, press releases, publicity programs, awards, scrapbooks and memorabilia, station logs, blueprints, sound recordings and several films.
Repository/Collector:
University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections, University of Washington
Includes scripts for Have You Heard, written by Edith Webber in the 1940s for WHO, Des Moines. The program included book reviews and commentary about fashion, music, historical figures, etc. Also includes material relating to George Webber's career as the founder of KWDM-AM in 1948 which became KWKY in 1959 after it was sold to 3M. George Webber also started KWDM-FM in 1964.
Includes newsletters, souvenir programs, newsclippings, files on WHO, Des Moines radio and television history, information about the station's founder, B. J. Palmer, and scrapbooks.
Consists primarily of television and radio series scripts. Also includes photographs and correspondence relating to Isaacs's career. Radio materials include Kraft Music Hall, 1947-1949, The Bob Burns Show, 1946-1947, The Rudy Vallee Show, 1941, and The Martin and Lewis Show, 1949-1950. Includes some bound volumes.
Repository/Collector:
Arts Library, Special Collections, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
Consists of radio, television and motion picture scripts and production material. Includes radio scripts for Father Knows Best, 1950-1954. Also includes correspondence and stills, some of which are related to the Robert Young-Eugene Rodney Production Co.
Repository/Collector:
Arts Library, Special Collections, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
Includes radio scripts for Hallmark Playhouse (a.k.a. Hallmark Radio Hall of Fame), January, 1952-March 1955, and production material, property procurement and releases, 1948-1952.
Repository/Collector:
Arts Library, Special Collections, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
Includes radio scripts for Mark Trail, 1950-1952, Tom Corbett, Space Cadet, 1952, One Foot in Heaven, 1945, Adventures of Topper, 1945, and Fighting Heroes of the U.S. Navy, n.d.
Repository/Collector:
Arts Library, Special Collections, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
Consists primarily of scripts and screenplays, including several undated scripts for Assignment U.S.A. that Berkeley did in collaboration with Stanley Roberts and Clark E. Reynolds.
Repository/Collector:
Arts Library, Special Collections, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
Consists primarily of material written by Paul and/or Margaret Schneider for a variety of television productions, including The Eddie Cantor Comedy Theatre (television) but also some unspecified material dealing with radio. Unpublished finding aid.
Repository/Collector:
Arts Library, Special Collections, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
Consists of radio and television series scripts, including radio scripts for Adventures of Topper, June-September, 1945, Fighting Heroes of the U.S. Navy, n.d., Mark Trail, Series 1-4, January, 1950-June, 1952, One Foot In Heaven, January-November, 1945, and Tom Corbett, Space Cadet, January-June, 1952.
Repository/Collector:
Arts Library, Special Collections, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
Includes 10 episodes of Romance and audio tapes and transcripts of interviews conducted by Froug for his book "The Screenwriter Looks at the Screenwriter."
Repository/Collector:
Arts Library, Special Collections, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
Consists of plays, synopses of plays, lists of plays, radio scripts and three volumes of folk songs and ballads. Also includes copies of scripts from the Project archives at George Mason University and videotaped interviews with Gene Stone and Jeff Corey. A list of the radio scripts is available online.
Repository/Collector:
Department of Special Collections, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
Includes sound and video recordings, clippings, scrapbooks, sheet music, orchestrations and other papers. As of 2005, the collection is being processed but is likely to contain radio material.
Repository/Collector:
Music Library, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
Consists of published sheet music and manuscripts, sound recordings, personal papers, correspondence with Johnny Burke, Sammy Cahn, Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra, business documents and works lists, programs, clippings, biographies and professionally assembled scrapbooks.
Repository/Collector:
Music Library, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
Two collections that contain lectures, including handwritten manuscripts, typed drafts with corrections and final copies. Many of the lectures were broadcast on the CBS Music Hour. Papers also includes talks for CBS Symphony Broadcasts.
Repository/Collector:
Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Georgia
Includes sound recordings of Gordon's band performing at the Hollywood Palladium and for local California radio shows during the 1950s plus scrapbooks, reviews, business records and other papers.
Repository/Collector:
University Archives, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Consists of correspondence, newspaper clippings, sheet music (mostly of songs sung by Valeria), radio scripts, and financial reports of the Polish War Relief Committee of Boston, ca. 1944. From 1937-1944 Nurczynski produced Echoes of Poland. Also includes correspondence and photographs of Alexandra J. Jaskolski and papers of Karol Jaskolski.
Repository/Collector:
Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota
Contains correspondence and other files, including considerable material pertaining to radio productions at the university during the 1950s and a large number of scripts.
Repository/Collector:
University Archives, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Consists of screenplays in which either Jim or Henny Backus appeared, 1940-1967. Also includes scripts for The Jim Backus Show and recordings of Jubilee, 1940s.
Repository/Collector:
Cinema-Television Library, University of Southern California