- Collection Overview
- Collection Description & Creator Information
- Access & Use
- Collection History
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Collection Overview
- Creator:
- Princeton University. Library. Special Collections
- Collector:
- Princeton University. Library. Special Collections
- Title:
- Radio Broadcasting Collection
- Repository:
- Rare Book Division
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/9306sz33p
- Dates:
- 1938-1959
- Size:
- 11 boxes and 23.75 linear feet
- Storage Note:
- ReCAP (scarcpxr): Box 1-11
- Language:
- English
Abstract
The Radio Broadcasting Collection consists of typescripts of scripts for "The Cavalcade of America" and "The Bookman" as well as promotional material for the major radio networks, such as ABC, CBS, NBC, the Mutual Broadcasting System, and the Municipal Broadcasting System (WNYC). Included is material regarding the coverage of news during the latter years of World War II and copies of clippings about the Orson Welles broadcast of "The War of the Worlds" in 1938.
Collection Description & Creator Information
- Scope and Contents
Consists of typescripts of scripts for "The Cavalcade of America" and "The Bookman" as well as promotional material for the major radio networks, such as ABC, CBS, NBC, the Mutual Broadcasting System, and the Municipal Broadcasting System (WNYC). Included is material regarding the coverage of news during the latter years of World War II and copies of clippings about the Orson Welles broadcast of "The War of the Worlds" in 1938.
- Arrangement
Arranged in this order: "The Cavalcade of America," National Broadcasting Company, Mutual Broadcasting Company, foreign material, oversize, miscellaneous.
Collection History
Access & Use
- Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research use.
- Conditions Governing Use
Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. No further photoduplication of copies of material in the collection can be made when Princeton University Library does not own the original. Permission to publish material from the collection must be requested from the Associate University Librarian for Special Collections. The library has no information on the status of literary rights in the collection and researchers are responsible for determining any questions of copyright.
- Credit this material:
Radio Broadcasting Collection; Rare Book Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/9306sz33p
- Location:
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Firestone LibraryOne Washington RoadPrinceton, NJ 08544, USA
- Storage Note:
- ReCAP (scarcpxr): Box 1-11
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- Subject Terms:
- Radio scripts -- United States.
- Genre Terms:
- Typescripts.
- Names:
- CBS Inc.
American broadcasting company
National Broadcasting Company.
Mutual Broadcasting System
New York (N.Y.). Municipal Broadcasting System
