Collections by Subject: US Government
A Selected List of Holdings in Special Collections, University of Maryland Libraries
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John C. Crabbe Papers, 1949-1991 and undated. 1.25 linear feet including 2 audiocassettes.
Location: Mass Media and Culture
From 1937 to 1958, John C. Crabbe worked for the College of the Pacific, Stockton, California where he started the first broadcasting degree major west of the Mississippi River. There, he also worked for KUOP-FM as its station manager, having assisted in putting the station on the air in 1949. During World War II, while in Baltimore, Crabbe lobbied the Federal Communications Commission for reserved FM channels for educational use which was finally granted in April 1952. Meanwhile, from 1950 to 1953, he also served as President of the Association for Education by Radio-Television. In 1961, Crabbe worked as a regional consultant to a National Defense Education Act survey on the need for television channels in education. Other positions held throughout his career include: general manager of KVIE-TV of Stockton, California (1958-1969), vice-president of the Western Radio and Television Association's Western Educational Network (1967-1968) and then president (August 1968 to 1969), director of University of Southern Colorado Telecommunications Division (1981), and general manager of KTSC, Pueblo, Colorado. The collection consists of publications regarding instructional television in California, television in education as well as the interaction between children and television. It includes the 1952 FCC allocation report, Crabbe's personal recollections of KVIE's history and an audio cassette of a 1949 interview with "Death Valley Scotty" and a 1952 recording of an Institute for Education by Radio and Television featuring the cast of "Kukla, Fran & Ollie."
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David M. Davis Papers, 1956-1980, and undated. 10.75 linear feet.
Location: Mass Media and Culture
David M. Davis had a prominent career in educational and public broadcasting, ranging from directing and producing college-level telecourses at WGBH and working for the Ford Foundation's Office of Public Broadcasting to creating the acclaimed programming series American Playhouse and P.O.V.. The collection documents his work.
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Patsy P. Layne Papers, 1961-1976 and undated. 3.50 linear feet.
Location: Mass Media and Culture
In October 1964, Patsy Layne went to American Samoa as part of the first television teacher team for a U.S. Congress - National Association of Educational Broadcasters project to revise and modernize the American Samoa educational system with a television-based curriculum. The collection documents Layne's career first as a television teacher and then as Curriculum Director for the Department of Education in American Samoa. Types of materials include correspondence, government documents, annual reports, brochures, curriculum manuals and materials, programs, article clippings and student coursework.
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Library of American Broadcasting Scripts Collection, 1925-1991. 10.5 lin. ft..
Location: Mass Media and Culture
The Library of American Broadcasting Scripts Collection is a collection of radio and television scripts gathered from several sources and donations by the original staff of the Library of American Broadcasting. Dating from 1925 to 1991, these scripts are the actual scripts used by radio and television performers. Many of the scripts contain the hand-written markings the performers created as they were preparing the script for broadcast. These scripts document almost seventy years of radio and television broadcasting and represent a variety of genres, including comedy, drama, soap operas, quiz programs, news programs, and music programs.
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Special Collections in Mass Media and Culture Serials Collection, 1910-2012. 1,557 lin ft..
Location: Mass Media and Culture
The Special Collections in Mass Media and Culture Serials Collection contains fan magazines, academic journals, industry trade magazines, yearbooks, and boudn press releases documenting the radio, television, advertising, journalism, film, and humor from the early 1900's to the present. Many of the serial titles are bound while others are unbound.
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Ralph W. Steetle Papers, 1942-1981. 2.50 linear feet.
Location: Mass Media and Culture
Ralph Steetle began in educational radio at Louisiana State University where he was its director of broadcasting, and helped build WLSU, one of the first educational FM stations in the south. In the early 1950s, he volunteered to work for the Joint Council on Educational Television (JCET) as an associate director, but became its executive director when Richard Hull left. The Joint Council on Educational Television served as an advocate organization for all the channels. While working for JCET, Steetle worked on the FCC Third Report and Order. This report tentatively set aside 209 frequencies, and became the Sixth Report of 1952, which then allowed 209 communities to speak to the FCC. The collection chronicles the early history of the Joint Committee on Educational Television and Steetle's involvement in this organization.