Contains biographical material, speeches and pamphlets relating to women in business. Husted was an advertising executive, home economist and, as director of the Home Service Department of General Mills, she planned and implemented the Betty Crocker program, 1926-1946.
A collection of proposed scripts prepared by Young & Shubert, Inc. designed to sell radio shows to agencies and sponsors. Includes multiple copies of scripts for proposed radio series; sometimes there are several episodes. It is not clear whether or not any of the proposed shows actually made it to the air. Some of the proposals include budgets for the radio episodes. A list of the scripts is available from the repository.
Contains documents chronicling the station's business and regulatory history, including correspondence with fans, business records, publicity materials, advertising, certificates and awards, sales reports, photographs, printed material, posters and tape recordings. WANN, MD was one of the first radio stations with a black-oriented format.
Contains transcripts of Field's program, the Letter Basket, broadcast on KFNF, station publications, programming schedules, postcards and photographs of radio personalities. The collection provides an account of the development of commercial radio.
Sina Berlinski (later known as Berlynn), pianot ; June Natelson, soprano ; Milton Moskowitz, clarinet ; Kenneth Spencer, bass ; Jonathan Brice, Walter Taussig, piano.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
This collection contains over 5,000 submissions to the National Story Project, a program that aired from 1999 November until 2001 July on National Public Radio's (NPR's) Weekend All Things Considered. The National Story Project was created and supervised by American author, Paul Auster. The collection primarily contains printed e-mail submissions and letters received through the mail. In addition to the stories, some participants sent cassette tapes or "CD"s of themselves reading their stories or performing music to accompany the submission. Also included are books, photographs, newspapers, magazines, pamphlets and other materials either meant to verify their submission as true, add context to their submission, or to show other formats that their submissions had appeared in previously.
Formats:
Analog audiocassette and Optical disc (Including CD, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-R, DVD-RW, VCD)
Extent:
7.5 linear feet
Repository/Collector:
Rare Book and Manuscript Collections, Butler Library
Mimeographed series of 103 six minute scripts for stand-by programs on New York State folklore issued between November, 1948 and December, 1951. A second similar collection includes 10 scripts of folklore stories.
Two recordings of Voice of Democracy Committee promotional announcements and model radio broadcasts relating to a contest for high school students for radio broadcast scripts on democracy in the United States. The contest was sponsored by the United States Junior Chamber of Commerce, the National Association of Broadcasters and the Radio Manufacturers Association.
Consists of two volumes of scripts by Bob Bums for the Bob Burns Show, 1944-1945, and 13 scripts written by Joel Malone, possibly for The Whistler, 1948-1950.
Includes news releases, sound recordings of radio programs and public service announcements by University Extension programs in agriculture, home economics, marine resources and 4-H.
A recording of an interview of Herbert Vere Evatt conducted by Clark M. Eichelberger, director of the American Assn. for the United Nations, that was broadcast on NBC relating to the activities of the United Nations.
Documents on the Pacifica Foundation, with emphasis on KPFA, Berkeley, CA. Consists primarily of printed articles about KPFA, programming schedules, information flyers and publicity materials.
Compilation of 31 cassettes of numerous short advertisements for local, regional and national companies which aired on Portland area stations. Includes spots for the Oregon Shakespearean Festival, 1959, Blitz-Weinhard Brewing Co. and the U.S. National Bank.
Papers, photographs and 69 sound recordings relating to KFMQFM, Lincoln, NE. Much of the collection contains information about Herbert William Burton who owned and operated the station from 1958-1966.
The collection consists of noncommercial recordings of radio broadcasts of primarily classical music. The largest portion of the collection consists of broadcast of The New York Philharmonic, with selected concerts from 1952-1963. Conductors of the New York Philharmonic concerts on these recordings include Franco Autori, Leonard Bernstein, Guido Cantelli, Dmitri Mitropoulos, Paul Paray, George Szell, and Bruno Walter. Guest soloists include Claudio Arrau, Robert Casadesus, Van Cliburn, Clifford Curzon, Rudolf Firkušný, Zino Francescatti, Jascha Heifetz, Myra Hess, Byron Janis, Martha Lipton, Artur Rubinstein, Irmgard Seefried, Rudolf Serkin, and Richard Tucker.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
195 recordings
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
The collection consists of noncommercial recordings of radio broadcasts of primarily classical music. The largest portion of the collection consists of broadcast of The New York Philharmonic, with selected concerts from 1952-1963. Conductors of the New York Philharmonic concerts on these recordings include Franco Autori, Leonard Bernstein, Guido Cantelli, Dmitri Mitropoulos, Paul Paray, George Szell, and Bruno Walter. Guest soloists include Claudio Arrau, Robert Casadesus, Van Cliburn, Clifford Curzon, Rudolf Firkušný, Zino Francescatti, Jascha Heifetz, Myra Hess, Byron Janis, Martha Lipton, Artur Rubinstein, Irmgard Seefried, Rudolf Serkin, and Richard Tucker. Orchestras with a smaller representation of recordings in the collection include the Boston Symphony Orchestra in concerts conducted by Pierre Monteux and Charles Munch, the NBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Guido Cantelli and Pierre Monteux, and the Concertgebouw Orchestra conducted by Eduard van Beinum, Josef Krips, and Rafael Kubelík. Opera recordings include selected Salzburg Festival broadcasts from 1952-1958, with the Vienna Philharmonic conducted by Rudolf Baumgartner, Karl Böhm, Joseph Keilberth, and Herbert von Karajan. Böhm also conducts for the 1956 reopening of the Vienna State Opera House. Bayreuth Festival productions from 1953 and 1954 are conducted by Joseph Keilberth, Hans Knappertsbusch, and Clemens Krauss. Bayreuth vocalists include Hans Braun, Gré Brouwenstijn, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Josef Greindl, Hans Hotter, Martha Mödl, and Eleanor Steber. Recordings of selected Firestone Hour (later the Voice of Firestone) programs from 1952 to 1956 contain opera, operetta, and orchestral selections as well as popular songs. Featured vocalists include Eugene Conley, Nadine Conner, Jerome Hines, Roberta Peters, Risë Stevens, and Ferruccio Tagliavini.
Content types:
Sounds and Other
Extent:
195 recordings
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
This collection contains materials collected by Roy Wetzel, a broadcast journalist and NBC News executive, related primarily to U.S. politics and elections. It includes audio recordings of broadcasts taped from radio stations such as WJR, a CBS affliliate station based in Detroit, Michigan, made during the 1950s.
A recording of addresses by Dwight D. Eisenhower and Adlai Stevenson, Republican and Democratic candidates for president of the United States, broadcast over CBS as part of a program sponsored by the National Citizens' Committee for United Nations Day.
Approximately 4,000 recordings, including interviews, concerts, other music programs and poetry originally aired 1949-1992. Also includes recordings of 20th century music festivals and concerts. For specific programs, check with in-house database.
Includes broadcast transcripts, other writings and sound recordings relating to American opinion regarding the Soviet Union and the development of the Cold War, 1945-1948.
The WFCR Collection contains nearly 4,500 reel to reel recordings of locally-produced radio programs, reflecting over fifty years of the cultural and intellectual life of western Massachusetts. Drawing upon the talents of the faculty and students of the Five Colleges (Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, and Smith Colleges and UMass Amherst), the collection offers a remarkable breadth of content, ranging from public affairs to community and national news, cultural programming, childrens programming, news and current events, scholarly lectures, classical music, and jazz.
Content types:
Sounds and Other
Formats:
Reel-to-reel and Digital tape (DAT, DCC)
Extent:
462 linear feet
Repository/Collector:
UMass Amherst Libraries, Special Collections & University Archives
Twentyeight cassettes of different programs, including a promotional spot for a performance by the United States Air Force Band at the Astoria Armory, the Douglas Grader Show broadcast from the Clatsop County Fair and a number of commercials for various Astoria area merchants, including Garcia Ford, Bjorklund's and the Owl Drug Store.
Three audio cassettes of numerous short public service announcements which aired on Portland area stations. Includes spots for the Oregon Junior Symphony, 1958, the Odd Fellows, 1970, and the Oregon State Game Commission.
Nineteen original audio tapes produced for the CBS public affairs program Adventures in Science hosted by Watson Davis, director of Science Service and editor of "Science News Letter." On the program, Davis interviewed guests ranging from psychologists to an engineer from an air conditioner manufacturing company.