A wide-ranging collection of over 1,000 celebrity advertising endorsements culled from high-end magazines. Includes radio personalities such as Jack Benny, Bing Crosby, Fred Allen, Jack Webb, Bob Hope and others as well as advertisements that involve radios or radio stations. See online finding aid for list of personalities and products.
The collection consists of noncommercial sound recordings including performances by Jascha Heifetz and Larry Adler of popular chamber music; a performance of Aaron Avshalomoff's Symphony no. 2 by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra conducted by Thor Johnson; a speech by Mrs. Gilbert Chapman broadcast in 1943 promoting the American Women's Voluntary Services; and radio and television interviews with Gilbert W. Chapman and dancer Alexandra Danilova. The interviews with Chapman were recorded from 1956 to 1962 and concern literacy and education in the United States. Notable television and radio programs represented in the collection include the Tex and Jinx television program; a Monitor radio program; and a Lee Graham television interview. Also included is the opening address (given by Mr. Chapman) of the New York Public Library 50th anniversary convocation, and a radio program featuring a story about the WNYC book festival.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
17 recordings
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Contains sound recordings and other print materials and memorabilia of western cowboys, including Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Jimmie Rodgers, Eddie Dean, Roy Rogers, Tom Mix, Allan "Rocky" Lane, Fuzzy Knight, Tex Ritter and others.
Repository/Collector:
Donald C. and Elizabeth M. Dickinson Research Center
Includes scrapbooks, correspondence, clippings and station programs for KMMJ, Clay Center and Grand Island, NE covering Kister's 41 years at the station as Program Director, Farm Director and Public Service Director.
Consists of a copy of an unpublished official Army history (author unknown) containing over 50 appendices including route maps, magazine and newspaper articles, list of radio stations and other information.
Repository/Collector:
Consortium Library, Archives & Manuscripts Department, University of Alaska Anchorage
Contains correspondence, printed materials, manuscripts, records and scrapbooks relating to frontier life, including information about well known figures and events. Also includes some manuscripts used in radio shows at KMMJ, Norfolk, NE, 1934-1935.
Contains diaries, manuscripts, radio talks, speeches, personal and professional correspondence, photos and clippings. See online finding aid for list of radio talks.
Contains records, 1936-1942, including scripts and related promotional literature for The World Is Yours and a file of collected information on other contemporary educational radio programs. Check repository for additional information.
Majority of collection consists of newspaper clippings compiled about various sporting events covered by Walden during his career as sports commentator for WEAN and WJAR. Also includes radio scripts which include odd sports stories and trivia.
Includes correspondence, notes, scrapbooks about the artist and a phonograph record of an interview of Gurr conducted by Jan Gelb on Of Interest to Women, 1950.