Mass communications ephemera collection, 1930-1980.

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Mass communications ephemera collection, 1930-1980.

A wide variety of printed ephemera (e.g. pamphlets, bulletins and newsletters, publicity and promotional materials, programs, directories, reports and studies, and related material) separated from manuscript collections in the fields of broadcasting, press, advertising, and public relations. The processed portion of this collection is summarized above, dates 1930-1977, and is described in the register. Additional accessions date 1930-1980 and are described below.

6.4 c.f. (16 archives boxes); plusadditions of 3.6 c.f.

Related Entities

There are 11 Entities related to this resource.

National Broadcasting Company

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The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American English-language commercial broadcast television and radio network owned by Comcast. The network is headquartered at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City, with additional major offices near Los Angeles (at 10 Universal City Plaza), and Chicago (at the NBC Tower). NBC is one of the Big Three television networks, and is sometimes referred to as the "Peacock Network", in reference to its stylized peacock logo, introduced in 1956 to promote the...

United press international

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United Press International is a major news service. It was founded in 1907 by E. W. Scripps as United Press and merged in 1958 with International News Service, which had been established by William Randolph Hearst in 1909. The service, which is distributed worldwide, is headquartered in New York. From the description of Press files, ca.1970-1985. (Florida State Archive). WorldCat record id: 32413400 E. W. Scripps started the United Press Association in 1907, by ...

Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc., 1966

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Radio corporation of America

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American newspaper publishers association

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Corporation for Public Broadcasting

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Founded in 1967, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) is the steward of the U.S. federal government’s investment in public broadcasting and the nation’s largest single source of funding for public radio, television, and related services. CPB distributes funding to locally-owned public radio and television stations and ensures universal access to non-commercial-high quality content and telecommunications services. The CPB does not own or operate any television or radio broadcasting netwo...

British Broadcasting Company

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The two part documentary ‘No Plan, No Peace: The inside story of Iraq’s descent into chaos’ was produced by BBC Current Affairs and broadcast on the 28th and 29th October 2007. From the guide to the BBC Documentary: ‘No Plan, No Peace’ Collection, 2007, (Middle East Centre Archive, St Antony's College, Oxford) In December 1981, BBC Radio 4 broadcast a series of 13 controversial programmes by its Religious Affairs Correspondent, Gerald Priestland, under the title Priestland's...

Overseas Press Club of America.

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The Overseas Press Club of America was founded in New York City in the 1940s by a group of 42 foreign correspondents. From the description of Records, 1976-1991. (University of Wyoming, American Heritage Center). WorldCat record id: 27137284 ...

American broadcasting company

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In 1972 television reporter and talk show host Geraldo Rivera, then a budding journalist working for WABC-New York's Eyewitness News, conducted a series of investigations at the Willowbrook State School for the Mentally Retarded, on Staten Island. His work resulted in a televised documentary entitled "Willowbrook: The Last Great Disgrace" which exposed the deplorable conditions and the rampant abuse and neglect of the residents. The report won a Peabody Award and led to changes in state law and ...

National Press Club (U.S.)

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The National Press Club, founded in 1908, is comprised of newspeople employed by all areas of the news media. In March 1952 the club began recording the speakers at its regular newsmakers luncheons and evening functions. The Library of Congress, presented with this collection of tapes in 1969, continues to receive recordings of the luncheon speakers series. From the description of Luncheon speakers collection [sound recording]. 1952-<1989> (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 3249016...

Associated press

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