Reference Request
Finding Aids to Official Records of the Smithsonian Institution Archives
Record Unit 591
Smithsonian Institution. Office of Telecommunications
Productions, circa 1971-1991
Collection Overview
General Information About This Collection | |
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Repository: | Smithsonian Institution Archives, Washington, D.C. Contact us at osiaref@si.edu. |
Creator: | Smithsonian Institution. Office of Telecommunications |
Title: | Productions |
Dates: | circa 1971-1991 |
Quantity: | 63.38 cu. ft. (56 document boxes) (61 tall document boxes) |
Collection: | Record Unit 591 |
Language of Materials: | English |
Summary: | This record unit consists of master audiotapes for Radio Smithsonian programs 750-1098, 1984-1989; elements, or original, unedited tapes for Radio Smithsonian programs 837-1098, 1985-1989; audio elements for the television series Here at the Smithsonian, volumes 3-8, 1984-1989; master audiotapes for Folk Masters radio series, 1991; scripts of Radio Smithsonian programs 400-975, 1977-1988; and audiotapes of Smithsonian special events, lectures, concerts, interviews, symposia, and openings, circa 1971-1991. |
Descriptive Entry
This record unit consists of master audiotapes for "Radio Smithsonian" programs 750-1098, 1984-1989; elements, or original, unedited tapes for "Radio Smithsonian" programs 837-1098, 1985-1989; audio elements for the television series "Here at the Smithsonian," volumes 3-8, 1984-1989; master audiotapes for "Folk Masters" radio series, 1991; scripts of "Radio Smithsonian" programs 400-975, 1977-1988; and audiotapes of Smithsonian special events, lectures, concerts, interviews, symposia, and openings, circa 1971-1991.
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Name
- Folk Masters (Radio program)
- Here at the Smithsonian (Television program)
- Radio Smithsonian (Radio program)
Subject
Physical Characteristics of Materials in the Collection
Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 591, Smithsonian Institution. Office of Telecommunications, Productions
Container List
Box 1
Radio Smithsonian Master Reels (7")
532
549
607
611
618
633
658
659
680
685
716
734
749
750
Box 2
751
752
753
754
756
757
758
759
760
761
762
763
764
Box 3
765
766
767
768
769
770
771
772
773
774
775
776
777
778
Box 4
779 (740 repeat)
780
781
782
783
784
786
787
788
789
790
791
793
794
Box 5
795
796
797
798
799
800
801
802
803
804
805
806
808
809
Box 6
810
811
812
813
814
815
816
817
818
819
820821
822
823
Box 7
824
825
826
827
828
829
830
831
832
833
834 (792 repeat)
835
836
837
Box 8
838
839
840
841
842
843
844
845
846
847
848
849
850
851
Box 9
852
853
854
855
856
857
858
859
860
861 (807 repeat)
862
863
864
865
Box 10
866
867
868
869
870
871
872
873
874
875
876
877
878
879
Box 11
880
881
882
883
884
885
886
887
888
889
890
891
892
893
Box 12
894
895
896
897
901
902
903
904
905
906
907
908
909
910
Box 13
911
912
913
916
917
918
919
920
921
922
923
924
925
927
Box 14
930
932 (900 repeat)
931
932
933
934
935
936
937
938 (898 repeat)
939
940
942 (899 repeat)
943 (914 repeat)
944
Box 15
946 (929 repeat)
948 (926 repeat)
949
950
952
953 (941 repeat)
954
955
956
958
959
960 (928 repeat)
961 (945 repeat)
962
Box 16
965
966
967
968
969
970
971
972
973
974 (947 repeat)
975 (951 repeat)
976
977
978
Box 17
979
980
982
983
984 (963 repeat)
985
986
987
988
989
990 (964 repeat)
991
992
993
Box 18
994
995 (957 repeat)
996
998
1001
1002 (981 repeat)
1003
1009
1010
1011
1013
1016
1017 (999 repeat)
1019
Box 19
1020
1021 (997 repeat)
1022
1024
1025
1026
1027
1029 (1007 repeat)
1030 (1000 repeat)
1031 (1005 repeat)
1032
1033
1034
1035
Box 20
1036
1038
1039
1040
1042
1043
1044 (1018 repeat)
1045
1047 (1004 repeat)
1048 (1023 repeat)
1049
1051
1052
1053 (1015 repeat)
Box 21
1055
1056
1059
1060
1061 (1006 repeat)
1062 (1014 repeat)
1063
1064
1065
1066
1067
1068
1069
1070
Box 22
1071 (1058 repeat)
1072
Radio Smithsonian Master Reels (7"), Elements and Additional Material
1073
1075
1076 (1028 repeat)
1077
1078
1079
1080 (1050 repeat)
1081 (1054 repeat)
1082
1083
1084
1085
Box 23
1086 (1012 repeat)
1087
1088 (1037 repeat)
1089
1090
1091
1092 (1057 repeat)
1093 (1008 repeat)
1094 (1041 repeat)
1095 (1074 repeat)
1096 (785 repeat)
1097
1098
Radio Smithsonian Theme & Bridges 1981
Box 24
Radio Smithsonian (RS) Theme 1980
RS Theme singers 1985
RS theme music 1986
NPR Tags
RS Pilot program/theme music safety dub
RS promo
RS 1-inch Demo master
RS demo master, 1987
RS demo elements, 1987
RS demo tape dubbing master
Galaxy demo master
Galaxy theme
Smithsonian Radio - Theme music
Tony Schwartz master
Box 25
Radio Smithsonian Program Elements (10" reels)
1015, 1016, 1017 close
1018, 1019
1023, 1024
1025, 1028, closes 1029, 1030, 1031
1026, 1027
1032
Box 26
1033
1034
1035
1036, 1037
1038
1039
1040
Box 27
1041
1042, 1043
1046 "Sounds like New York" Outs & Elements
1046 Sounds like... Roger Kennedy Narration
1046 Sounds like... Outs & Elements
1046 Sounds like... Program Master
Box 28
1045, 1049, closes for 1044, 1047, 1048
1050, 1051
1052, 1053 recuts, 1054
1055, 1056
1057, 1058
1059, 1060, 1061 Open & Close
Box 29
1062 Opens & Closes, 1061, 1063
1065, 1066
Radio Smithsonian Program Elements (10" reels) and Other Materials
1067, 1069
1068, 1069, 1070
1072, 1073
1074, 1075
Box 30
1076, 1077, 1078, opens for 1080/1081/1082
1079, 1083
1084, 1085, 1086 close
1087, 1088 close, 1089
1090, 1091, closes to 1092/1093/1094/1095/1096
1097, 1098
Box 31
RS 1046 Radio Smithsonian New York Master
Earth Day 1990 (reels 1-3)
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, 7/23/1990
Doc Watson Concert #1
Box 32
Doc Watson Concert #2
Chez Negrete Concert
Truth Is on its Way - Giovanni concert
Elma Stuckey concert
Qin Concert/Sackler Gallery
Cole Porter Elements
Box 33
Cole Porter Elements
1990 Armstrong Trumpet Competition, reels 1-4
Menachem Pressler concert #1
Menachem Pressler concert #2
Box 34
Safety-In The Tradition
Ted Park theme
Here At The Smithsonian" (HATS) audio elements
HATS Elements 8-2 Noguchi/Yanni Music & Effects (M&E), 8-3 all
HATS Elements 8-1 narration, 8-2 narration
HATS Elements M & E Volume 7; edition 5, vol. 8; ed. 1
HATS Elements vol. 3; eds. 1, 4, 5
HATS Elements vol. 7 ed. 7; ed. 2
Box 35
HATS Elements vol. 4; ed. 3, vol. 5; ed. 1, vol. 4; ed. 1
HATS Elements vol. 7; ed. 2 M & E, ed. 3
HATS Elements vol. 6; ed. 5
HATS Elements vol. 6; ed. 2, M & E, vol. 6; ed. 3, vol. 6; ed. 4
HATS Elements vol. 5; ed. 5, vol. 6; ed. 1, vol. 6; ed. 2 narration
HATS Elements vol. 5; eds. 2, 3, 4 and part of 5
Box 36
HATS Elements 8-4 complete
HATS Elements 8-4 Holidays
Folk Masters 1991 Program Masters
Folk Masters #1, reel 2
Folk Masters #1, reel 3
Folk Masters #2, reel 1
Folk Master #2 reel 2
Box 37
Folk Masters #3, reel 1
Folk Masters #3, reel 2
Folk Masters #4, reel 1
Folk Masters #4, reel 2
Folk Masters #5, reel 1
Folk Masters #5, reel 2
Box 38
Folk Masters #6, reel 1
Folk Masters #6, reel 2
Folk Masters #7, reel 1
Folk Masters #7, reel 2
Folk Masters #8, reel 1
Folk Masters #8, reel 2
Box 39
Folk Masters #9, reel 1
Folk Masters #9, reel 2
Folk Masters #10, reel 1
Folk Masters #10, reel 2
Folk Masters #11, reel 1
Folk Masters #11 reel 2
Box 40
Folk Masters #12, reel 1
Folk Masters #12, reel 2
Folk Masters #13, reel 1
Folk Masters #13, reel 2
Isaac Stern Intros
Folk Masters Generic promos, 1960s, 1930s, 3/12/1991
Folk Masters Applause beds
Box 41
Folk Masters Intro and Outros
Folk Masters Greatest Hits/Outs, 1-4
Box 42
Radio Smithsonian Miscellaneous tapes (15" reels)
Sam Rizetta, reels 1 & 2 of 2, 8/28/1975
Concert-Henry Clay Work, reels 1 & 2 of 2, 3/31/1975
Radio Smithsonian Elements (15" reels)
RS 837, 838, 839, 840
841, 842
Box 43
843, 844, 845
846, 847
848, 849, 850
851, 852
853, 854
855, 856
Box 44
857, 858, 859, 860
861, 862, 863
863, 864, 865
866, 867, 868, 865
868, 869
RS 870, 872
Box 45
871, 874
874, 875
876, 875
877, 878
878, 879, 880
881, 882
Box 46
883, 884, 885, 886
887, 888
889, 890, 891
892, 893
894, 895, 896
897, 898, 899
Box 47
900
RS 901, 902, 904
903, 904
907, 908
905, 906
909
911, 913
Box 48
912, 913
914
915, 916
917, 919
918, 919
920, 921
921, 922, 923
Box 49
924, 925
RS 926, 927, 928
929, 930
931, 932
933, 934
935, 936
Box 50
937, 939
940, 941, Close only 942, 943
944, 945
947, 949
950, 951
952, 953
954, 955, 956
Box 51
957
958, 959
RS 962, 963
964
965, 966
967, 968
969, 970
Box 52
972
971, 973
977, 978
979, 980
981, 982
983, 984 close, 985
986, 987
Box 53
988, 989, 990
991, 992
993, 994, 995
RS 996, 998
997, 999
1000
1001, 1002 close, 1003
Box 54
1004, 1005
1006, 1007
1009
1007 close, 1008, 1010
1011, 1012
1013, 1014
Box 55
Radio Smithsonian Miscellaneous Tapes (7" reels)
Ancient music by Jesse Boggs, 9/1984, Peruvian flute, slit drum
Moe Asch Interview, reels 1, 2, 3, 4 of 4, 3/11/1971
Moe Asch Interview paper logs
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) space age sound effects, 1972/1973
NASA Apollo 11 mission highlights, July 16-24, 1969
John Bull Run, SFX & Interview w/John White, 9/13/1981
RS Dimentia reel
Mrs. Sadat & Egyptian music from "Egypt Today"
Spring Celebration - The Circus 4/25/1980
Out of Africa music tape, 3/1979
Out of Africa exhibit tape, 3/1979
Panda Unveiling
Box 56
Paul Garber - Kites, 3/11/1975
Robert McC. Adams, Smithsonian Secretary interview, 1985
Spiders - "Evolution" program, J. Coddington
Carolyn Schirmer African stories, 12/1984
American stories promo master
American Stories demo master
Hindenburg explosion sound effects, May 1937
Secretary Adams, reels 1 & 2
Harpsichord music for "Clockwork Universe," 1/1981
Ted Park, Hoosetaneh River, USS Enterprise
Bernice Reagon, voices of civil rights, 2/1985
Black Wings, unused segments, Anderson outtakes
Music of the Middle Ages
Box 57
1972 FOLKLIFE Festival, reels 1 & 2
1973 Folklife Festival, reels 1 & 2
Renwick Brazilian music concert, 2/16/1973, reels 1 & 2
British American Fest, 5/2/1984, Native American dance, reels 2 & 3 of 3
Teddy Bear's picnic music, Jay Wilbur & his orchestra
Jazz workshop, Dizzy Gillespie
Interview with SI Ham radio operators, 4/27/1982
Ham radio chatter, 4/1982
Henry Ford-Roger White
TR speeches
Box 58
Kouyate, Griot, reels 1 & 2 of 2, 5/1984
US Army field band & soldier's chorus-Yorktown bicentennial
Harpsichord music from George Washington's time, 2/1982
Sound effects from Dinosaurs film for MNH exhibit
Wright flyer engine sounds
Lindley Vann, underwater archeology, reel 2 of 2
New Hungarian Quartet, reel 2, 9/30/1975
Misc. jet sound effects
Sound effects-wind, engines, water, streets, steel works, ocean (Hall 10)
Live concert broadcast-Boy choir, Jim Weaver & Martin Goldsmith
Radix steel orchestra, Trinidad & Tobago music, reels 1 & 2 of 2
Mayor La Guardia, Universal News, 1933
Box 59
Presidents TV camera spots
Songs for Presidents, #8 campaign 1900-1960
Thirteen presidents speak, Grover Cleveland (1892)-LBJ (1963)
The Greenbriar Boys, dub of album, 11/1982
African drum performance, National Museum of African Art, 11/1989, reels 1 & 2 of 2
Potomac English hand bell ringers-Christmas music
MASH theme master
Segments for live Christmas broadcast, 12/21/1981
Richter scale, reels 1 & 2 of 2
Anon-FDR speech, 10/28/1936, Statue of Liberty
Mechanical organ
Music from NPG WPA exhibit
Box 60
John F. Kennedy 1960 acceptance speech, Los Angeles, 7/13/1960
Sounds of night creatures
Coca Cola song, Brock Holmes, Jim Weaver on piano
Magnetic sound effects
Naughty Marrietta demo, 11/1981, script enclosed
Miscellaneous propeller airplane sounds, 7/1982
Yorktown bagpipe music
Yorktown gag reel elements
Sound effects-Yorktown, unboxed reel
Sound effects roll-cannon, small arms, guns, horses
Yorktown source reels 1 & 2
5th Anniversary of moon landing, 7/20/1974
Space quotes from RS program on 25 years of US space program
Box 61
Yorktown Master tape
Jacob Landau interview, 2/10/1984
"Teddy Roosevelt" music, 4 reels
Model T music, from Henry Ford museum
Thomas Edison, ca. 1908, "Future of electricity" address in New York
TV-I and Jupiter, rocket launch?
Mechanical music master
Tree fall
Hugh Iltis outs #702
Viola de Gamba music, 12/1980
South Pole discovery
Box 62
John Burns - "Biograffitti"
Music of Turkey Run Farm, Yorktown during Revolutionary War
Bicentennial SFX, roll A, military sounds
Mexican concert, reels 1 & 2 of 2, 10/2/1978
Bicentennial SFX, roll B, misc. sounds
Demo tape for 1981 Public Radio conference
Tom Stuper, energy conservation
Paul Garber interview with Jesse Boggs, reels 1, 2 & 3 of 3, 10/4/1982
Antheil's 2nd sonata for violin, 5/1982
American Stories elements: Meehan, reels 1 & 2 of 2
Box 63
American Stories elements: Robert Freed, reels 1 & 2 of 2
Kalahari music, Kung bushmen
Life of Richard Allen, 3/12/1987
King Island Eskimos, MNH,
Christmas Music, 4 reels
Box 64
Rev. Tindley, 6/1982, reels 1 & 2 of 2 (15" reels)
Jacksonville Bandstand inaugural & ribbon cutting, 7/4/1984
Radio Smithsonian Miscellaneous Tapes (15" reels)
Japanese/gamelan at Renwick, 9/1982, reels 1 & 2 of 2 (reel #2 is 7")
Russian popular music vie Voice of America, rock, jazz, guitar poetry
Box 65
Folk Music, guitar, how many biscuits can you eat
Film music, Garside, Peabody conservatory 19th century music, 2 reels
American Family folklore, Susan Spurling's dubs, NPR
American Stories, pt. 3, "Families" master
RS 777 Elements "A Television Story" (reel 1 of 2)
Box 66
RS 777 Elements "A Television Story" (reel 2 of 2)
American stories elements, 3 reels
American Stories promos
Nathan Reingold, on 1st Smithsonian Secretary, Joseph Henry
Yorktown SFX, 10/1981, full track mono (#2)
Box 67
Yorktown SFX, 10/1981, full track mono (#7, 12, 48, 100, miscellaneous)
NPG: Portraits in Motion - Charles Ives, reel 1 of 2
Box 68
National Portrait Gallery: Portraits in Motion - Charles Ives, reel 2 of 2, 6/29/1984
Playing the Palace-Ragtime Review program, 2 reels, 9/16/1983
Kronos Quartet Concert, 1/30/1988, 2 reels
Kronos #1, rehearsal
Box 69
Lyn Trax, Smithsonian whoopee tape, (Unboxed)
Lyn Farmer demo tracks, (7" unboxed)
Smithsonian Radio, 4/25/1988
Radio Smithsonian 1046 safety, "Sounds like New York"
The New Radio Smithsonian pilot program (show masters)
The New Radio Smithsonian theme music safety
Box 70
The Radio Smithsonian pilot demo
The New Radio Smithsonian pilot program
The New Radio Smithsonian - safety
Radio Smithsonian pilot master, reels 1 & 2 of 2
Pilot elements-Xerox, Doc Watson, Ralph Kramdon
The New Radio Smithsonian theme
Box 71
Interlochen radio elements for remix (7" reel)
Joe Maddy's Interlochen demo, AB reels (7" reel)
Joe Maddy's Interlochen, reels 1, 2 & 3 of 3
Very Special Arts, interview withJay Ranelli, 6/7/1990
RAP (Smithsonian Resident Associate Program) 25th interviews, 6/1990
Box 72
RAP-25th Interview with Janet Solinger, 9/1990
Ice Age Hunters, mix & elements & outs, (7" reel)
Margaret Walker with Verta Mae Grosvenor (7" reel)
Kennedy Sampler (7" reel)
Dr. James Watson/Roger Kennedy, 4/5/1989, 2 reels (reel 2 is 7")
Ella Fitzgerald w/ Roger Kennedy, 10/19/1989
Baba O, 5/9/1989
Box 73
John Eaton concert #3, 6/1/1980
John Eaton on Ellington, 4/29/1984
Jamieson/Presidency - safety, 2/8/1988
Jamieson/Presidency - master, 2/8/1988
John Eaton concert #1, 1/27/1980
John Eaton concert #2, 2/13/1983
Box 74
John Eaton (Loesser), reels 1 & 2 of 2
Capitol Steps, 2 reels, Baird auditorium, 9/5/1988
Moses Asch, reels 1& 2 of 2, 10/10/1987
Box 75
Moses Asch tribute, from digital master, reels 1, 2 & 3 of 3, 10/10/1987
Richard Leakey lecture at National Geographic, 11/18/1984, 3 reels
Box 76
Anthony Burgess, "We Walk in the City," address of Contemporeire 1984
Smithsonian Concerts "Naughty Marietta," reels 1 & 2 of 2, 11/16/1981
John Eaton on Harold Arlen, 2/26/1984
John Eaton on George Gershwin, 4/1/1984
John Eaton-Cole Porter, 1/22/1984
Box 77
John Eaton IV - Jazz Improvisation, reels 1 & 2 of 2, 4/21/1985
John Eaton II - Richard Rodgers, 2/24/1985
John Eaton Concert #1, reel 1 of 1, 1/11/1981
John Eaton concert #4, 4/27/1980
John Eaton on Irving Berlin, 2/2/1986
Box 78
Eaton #1 - McHugh & Youmans, 2/3/1985
John Eaton-The Shape of Things to Come, 1983
John Eaton- Fats Waller
John Eaton demo outs
John Eaton Concert #4, 6/1981
John Eaton Concert #3, 4/26/1981
Box 79
John Eaton Concert #2, 3/22/1981
John Eaton Concert #1, 1/17/1982
John Eaton Concert #2, 2/24/1980
John Eaton Concert #2, 2/28/1982
John concert #1, 1/16/1983, reels 1 & 2 of 2 (reel 2 is 7")
Box 80
John Eaton concert #4, 5/9/1982
John Eaton Concert #3, 3/21/1982, reels 1 & 2 of 2, (reel 2 is 7")
John Eaton Demo master (7" reel)
John Eaton demo elements
John Eaton: Blowin' in the Wind, 4/10/1988, reels 1 & 2 of 3
Box 81
John Eaton: Blowin' in the Wind, 4/10/1988, reel 3 of 3
John Eaton: Johnny Mercer, 3/13/1988, reels 1, 2 & 3 of 3
John Eaton: Fred Astaire, 2/21/1988, reels 1 & 2 of 3
Box 82
John Eaton: Fred Astaire, 2/21/1988, reel 3 of 3
Servais Cello concert, Eric Feldbusch/Jim Weaver, 10/1985
Doubleday performance-1930s music, John Houseman, 5/26/1982
Jon Spelman-Frankenstein, performance at the National Portrait Gallery, 1/30/1986
Doubleday Lecture/Performance, 3/4/1981, reel 2 of 2
Stradivarius lecture, 5/18/1981 (7" reel)
John Fesperman: 1802 Madison Organ, reels 1, 2 & 3 of 3 (7" reels)
John Fesperman: 2/28/1989, reel 1 of 2
Box 83
John Fesperman: 2/28/1989, reel 2 of 2
John Fesperman/Taylor Tannenburg, reels 1 & 2 of 2
John Fesperman organ, John Stanley, William Sellby - A lesson
John Eaton-Hurray for the One-Shot Genius, 2/8/1987
African Music
Tony Schwartz interview #1, 4/11/1988, reels 1 & 2 of 2
Tony Schwartz interview, 4/11/1988, edited dub, reel 1 of 2
Box 84
Tony Schwartz interview, 4/11/1988, edited dub, reel 2 of 2
Sam Gilliam edited elements, 4/19/1988, reels 1 & 2 of 2
Biosphere elements, reels 1 & 2 of 2
Tony Schwartz elements & LP cuts
Pilot elements #3 oddities / miscellaneous, master narrations, disclaimer
Box 85
Romantic chamber ensemble, 1/27/1980, reels 1 & 2 of 2
Belgian brass quintet, 5/4/1980
Kapelye 1
Romantic Chamber ensemble, reels 1 & 2 of 2, 3/22/1980
Box 86
20th Century Consort, 3/30/1980, at Hirshhorn
Celtic Thunder, "Saturday Live" series, interview with Jesse Boggs, 4/26/1980
Smithsonian Chamber Players with Jan DeGaetani, reels 1 & 2 of 2, 2/11/1980
Smithsonian Chamber Players, reels 1 & 2 of 2, 2/9/1980
Box 87
Smithsonian Chamber Players w/DeGaetani, reels 1 & 2 of 2, 2/10/1980
Alice & Mike Seeger, Div. Musical Instruments program, 2/2/1980
Romantic Chamber Ensemble, reels 1 & 2 of 2, 1/7/1980
20th Century Consort, madrigals / Stravinsky, reel 1 of 2, 12/10/1979
Box 88
20th Century Consort, madrigals / Stravinsky, reel 2 of 2, 12/10/1979
Martin Pearlman-harpsichord concert, 11/12/1979
20th Century Consort, 11/18/1979
20th Century Consort, 5/31/1980
Smithsonian Chamber Players, reels 1 & 2 of 2, 10/29/1979
Box 89
Koto concert Reiko Kamata, 5/20/1979
Handel "Esther," reel 2 of 2, (reel 1 is lost), 4/29/1979
Irish Concert, Andy McGann/Paddy Reynolds/Felix Dolan, 1/22/1979
Smithsonian Chamber Players, Malcolm Bilson-fortepiano, 4/10/1978
Symposium: 50th Anniversary of Lindbergh's flight, National Air and Space Museum, 5/1977
Bagpipe concert, John McFadyen, 4/1/1977
Box 90
Piano in America, "Safe at Home," reels 1 & 2 of 2, 3/12/1984
Piano in America: In the Concert Hall, reels 1, 2 & 3 of 3, 5/23/1984
Derek Adam Clavichord & fortepiano, reel 1 of 2, 6/11/1984
Box 91
Derek Adam Clavichord & fortepiano, reel 2 of 2, 6/11/1984
Doubleday lecture/performance, "From the Top: Music in America," 5/4/1981
Lecture by Smithson String Quartet, 1/26/1983
A Holiday Concert, reels 1 & 2 of 2, 12/21/1981
Box 92
Victor Herbert, reels 1 & 2 of 2, 11/19/1978
Charles Strouse, reels 1 & 2 of 2, 5/18/1978
Romantic Chamber Ensemble, Schubert/Goldmark /Mendelssohn, 2 reels, 4/28/1980
Box 93
Smithsonian Chamber Players, reels 1 & 2 of 2, 5/4/1980
Steel piano demo-Victor Brady, 11/17/1976
Music from Vermont-Burt Porter/Bill Clark/Beaudoin Bros., 2 reels, 1/1977
Music from the age of Washington, 2/8/1982
Box 94
Radio Smithsonian Miscellaneous Tapes (5" reels)
Folk Festival 1974, reels 1, 2, 3 & 4 of 4
WTOP Features air check, 4/20/1976
Pulsars-Frank Drake, National Astronomy & Ionosphere Center, Cornell
Miscellaneous banjo & harpsichord music
Dick Orkin & Bert Berdis radio spots
Volcano
Teddy Roosevelt music
Moog sound effects
Features-Ann
Folk Festival-opening ceremony, 10/5/1977
Henry Ford
Box 95
Golden Door film music
Ford Model T music
Betty Skelton-aerobatic pilot
1981 Spring Celebration, reels 1 & 2
Mrs. Reagan donates inaugural gown, 11/4/1981
National Albright baseball re-creation
La Guardia - E. Debs from Mich. State, G. Robert Vincent voice library
Gaylord Carter interview, reels 1 & 2, 12/1983
Franklin in Paris
Tour of Patuxent Center, Scott Derickson, Reels 1, 2, 3, 10/1981
Box 96
Folk Festival 1973, talk, tape 1
Folk Festival, October 1977
Carolina Wren, animal communication sfx
William Diggs, Indian Head, Maryland
Folk Festival, immigrants/Pullman porters/coal miner, 3 reels, 10/6/1978
Folk Festival, immigrants/organ builder/sharecroppers, 3 reels, 10/8/1978
Folk Festival pre-opening music sampler, 10/5/1977
Campaign speeches, "We the People"
Leroy Anderson songbook, 6 songs, 7/1982
Music from "Images of Labor," 10/1981
Box 97
Radio Smithsonian tape 2
Early Radio commercials
Silver Hill
Heavy machines
Naturalist Center
Barney Finn on Bells, original wire
Aerial firefighter sfx
Music from HATS political feature, 7/1984
Train sounds from railroad hail
1401 locomotive
Hissing cockroaches
British-American festival, 6/2/1984
Istebna 1& 2
Box 98
Eskimo (open reel)
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI), 4 reels, 2/1983
Nina Kern-sample tape
Galaxy sample piece
1980 Folklife Festival, 4 reels,
Bicentennial PSA's
Radio sample and bicentennial spots, 3/3/1977
Box 99
Descent to Venus-Gordon Barnes, 12/10/1978
Alfred Eisenstaedt interview
American Bandstand theme, 4/1982
Bee Eater, bird sfx, African birds
Howler
Galaxy slide show tape - dub
Norman Cousins, 10/20/1978
Radio Smithsonian Miscellaneous Tapes (7" reels)
Dalmus Taylor
Hugh Iltis sfx
Lindbergh returns to U.S., 6/11/1927
Alex Haley-Doubleday lecture, 2/23/1977
John Updike lecture - Doubleday, 12/8/1976
Edward Edmo, sun dance
Bill Kirchner/John McNeil N.Y. #1 trade center
Box 100
Dizzy Gillespie, 10/16/1986
Bill Kirchner/John McNeil-#2 stairwell/subway
Bill Kirchner/John McNeil-#3 bridge/daily news
Bill Kirchner/John McNeil-#4 Russian tea room
Bill Kirchner/John McNeil-#5 Lincoln Center
New York Jazz-Bill Kirchner/John McNeil
Field to Factory music
Lift Every Voice and Sing-Field to Factory music, 1/15/1987
Kennedy/Friendly, 10/12/1988
Judge Robert Bork, 1/16/1990
Archibald Cox, reels 1 & 2
Jerry Dallman-music machines, 7/3/1978
Box 101
Botanists show rough cut
Shuttle space flight-Goddard/NASA, 3/1982
Sea Link, 1/1985, RS 787
Porter Kier, John Miller, Johnson Sea Link, 2/1985
Doc Watson/Nick Spitzer, 9/2/1987
Mitchell Parish, reels 1 & 2, ASCAP, 2/12/1989
Mitchell Parish #3/Sammy Cohen #1, ASCAP, 2/12/1989
Sammy Cohen #2, ASCAP, 2/12/1989
Strouse #2, ASCAP, 2/13/1989
Mancini #2/Strouse #1, ASCAP, 2/13/1989
Burton Lane, reels 1 & 2, ASCAP, 2/13/1989
Bergman's #2/Mancini #1, ASCAP, 2/13/1989
Box 102
Bergman's #1, ASCAP, 02/13/1989
Betty Camden & Adolph Green, ASCAP, 2/12/1989
Edward Elisen, ASCAP, 2/12/1989
Mary Alice Beatty for Ralph Rinsler, reels 1-7 of 7, 9/1989
Brian Kingsley on Aldabra-zoology curator
Smithsonian Galaxy-original demo, 10/3/1978
"Nation's Attic" master, 4/1980 & 5/1980
Thomas Jefferson music original
Box 103
Louise Nevelson original
Paderewski piano presentation, 12/7/1976
Rathburn
B. Abruzzo cuts - double eagle 5
Wilcomb Washburn interview, part 1 edited
Ansel Adams, 9/9/1979
Joe Pedigo
Sebastian Kelber concert, 5/26/1972
Anon music, reels 1 & 2, from "A Nation of Nations"
Anon-M&E track
Teddy Bears picnic, London record #353
Box 104
Western Public Radio program on Einstein
Concert Ensemble of Smithsonian collection
Frank Lloyd Wright, address to fashion group of Miami, 11/2/1955
Eyewitness account of Krakatau volcano, 8/1983
I was There: Krakatoa 1883
Ricercare, reels 1 & 2, 3/13/1977
L. Ballard concert, interview, 3 reels, 4/1/1972
New England Cons. Ellington concert, 3 reels, 4/21/1974
Hand bell ringers, concert Renwick, 2/11/1973, reel 1 of 2
Box 105
Hand bell ringers, concert Renwick, 2/11/1973, reel 2 of 2
Holiday gag tape, 12/1981
Dick Clark donates American Bandstand podium, 3/29/1982
Black baseball, reels 1 & 2, 4/25/1981
National Museum of American Art (NMAA): An Evening with Eisenstaedt, 10/31/1980
Ralph Nader, 9/28/1976
Marya Mannes, 2 reels
Tom Wolfe, 1976
Norman Lear interview, spring 1978
Gabriel award submission, 1983, 5 RS excerpts
RS & Galaxy excerpts for demos
Galaxy slide show tape
Box 106
Galaxy demo reel-master
Galaxy demo pieces-voice master, 9/25/1978
VO demo master
RS 10th Anniversary sample tape-original
Old Radio Smithsonian theme music
Regents promo-1983
Galaxy theme
1982 RPC demo
Smithsonian Galaxy dupe master, 10/31/1978
RS Theme& bridges, 1981
RS theme package #2, 1980
Segments for 12/30/1981 Executive Committee Meeting: Yorktown, John Bull, Holiday Concert
Galaxy logos, 2 reels, (5" reel)
Box 107
Galaxy theme music, 1 reel (5" tape)
RS Logos (2 reels)
Radio Smithsonian F-1 format Digital Masters
Thelonius Monk Piano competition, 11/19/1987, 2 master & 2 back-up reels
Kronos Concert, Hirshhorn, 2 reels, 1/30/1988
WV Wenguang-Qin, 1 master & 1 back-up reel, 5/6/1988
Box 108
Joe Kennedy Quartet, 1 master & 1 safety reel, 4/2/1989
Moses Asch tribute-symphony space, 4 reels, 10/10/1987
Mike Crotty Big Band, 1 master & 1 safety reel, 4/13/1989
Menahem Pressler, 1 master & 1 safety reel, 3/21/1989
Smithsonian Marimba, 2/26/1989
Box 109
Radio Smithsonian Miscellaneous tapes (15" reels)
Lisa Taylor-change, 2/1985
Cleofis Vigil, storyteller, 2 reels, 3/1985
African music, 2 reels,
Glen Wilson on space exploration, 1/1985
Lord Rosse, 3/1985
Box 110
Sound track: N'ai Story of a !Kung Woman, 1/1985
Piano in Public Places, 2 reels, 1/30/1984
Tim Carey, bagpipes
Philip Bologna, 4/1984
Mostly Music keyboards-Mark Bellasai
Box 111
Alistair Anderson, concertina, Northumbrian small pipes
Stanley King, oboe
John Fesperman, chamber organ, 3/1984
1982 performance by Tukak Theatre -Baird
Steel band & Latin music
Piano in America as performer, 5/14/1984, reel 1 of 3
Box 112
Piano in America as performer, 5/14/1984, reels 2 & 3 of 3
New Orleans
Tzotzil Mayan puppet theatre
Mason Hole on Antarctica, 4/23/1985
Joseph Sillinger, 78's dub, an early electronic rhythm machine
Box 113
Marilyn Bridges
Mechanical Music, 4/1984
Eleanor Roosevelt, reel 2 of 2, 10/13/1984
John Burns-butterflies
Xerox elements (open reel)
"Yorktown: Echoes of Victory" - 1/2" (NOT 1/4") Audio master
Box 114
Radio Smithsonian/Benton Broadcast Project Lectures (DAT recordings)
Rita Mae Brown, 10/24/1990
Ray Hyman, 10/16/1991
Ed Regis, 11/1/1990
Timothy Leary, 11/8/1990
Frank Spencer - The Piltdown Hoax, 12/5/1990
Richard J. Dennis, 2/21/1991
Carlos Fuentes
Angela Davis, 6/6/1990
Roger Penrose, 10/3/1990
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, 7/23/1991
John Mearsheimer, 12/13/1990
Yevgeny Yevtushenko, 12/11/1990
Bernard Lewis, 12/6/1990
Haynes Johnson, 2/26/1991
Mozart Seminar, 2 reels, 5/4/1991
Richard West-Indians in America
J. California Cooper, 7/18/1991
S. Schoenbaum, 10/8/1991
Marine Ecosystems narration
Ian Stevenson, 10/15/1990
Box 115
Radio Smithsonian Paper Files
Eaton programs
Program schedules
Release Forms
Scripts:
Radio Smithsonian #951-975
RS 926-950
RS 901-925
RS 876-900
RS 851-875
RS 826-850
Box 116
RS 801-825
RS 776-800
RS 751-775
RS 726-750
RS 701-725
RS 676-700
RS 651-675
RS 626-650
RS 601-625
RS 576-600
Box 117
RS 551-575
RS 526-550
RS 501-525
RS 476-500
RS 451-475
RS 426-450
RS 400-425
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