Finding Aids
The National Audio-Visual Conservation Center is one of several Library divisions participating in the effort to develop more fully navigable finding aids using Encoded Archival Description (EAD). One may search across encoded finding aids for all Library divisions or browse the union list of EAD finding aids from the Library's EAD Finding Aid page.
For some finding aids, selecting “outline view” will provide a navigation frame with individual sections linked to the finding aid; the sections may be searched and printed separately. This view will load quickly. Selecting “full view” will provide a single file which may be used for printing or searching within the entire finding aid. A lengthy finding aid may load very slowly in “full view”. Additionally, you may select “PDF” to view and print the finding aid using Adobe Portable Document format.
Because most collections are stored offsite, researchers will need to schedule an appointment to access materials. Call the Recorded Sound Reference Center at (202) 707-7833 for information.
A
- Adventures in Sound Collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 113.390KB / 6 pages]
- A. L. Alexander papers [View Finding aid] [PDF : 118.339KB / 6 pages]
- Robert S. Altshuler collection, photographs from the collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 142.172KB / 13 pages]
- Armed Forces Radio and Television Service Collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 399.833KB / 69 pages]
B
- Emile Berliner Collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 262.875KB / 40 pages]
- John Broven collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 284.690KB / 43 pages]
- Sound recordings and other material from the Zbigniew Brzezinski papers [View Finding aid] [PDF : 145.254KB / 11 pages]
- Effie Burton radio script collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 170.440KB / 24 pages]
C
- Children’s Express/Children’s PressLine collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 714.395KB / 117 pages]
- Columbia Records Paperwork Collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 165.468KB / 18 pages]
D
- Manfred F. DeMartino Collection of CBS Radio Scripts [View Finding aid] [PDF : 113.172KB / 5 pages]
E
- Oral history audiocassettes from the Stuart Eizenstat papers [View Finding aid] [PDF : 220.562KB / 43 pages]
F
- Finesse Records papers [View Finding aid] [PDF : 92.642KB / 5 pages]
- Firesign Theatre collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 435.327KB / 69 pages]
- Charles Fisher Cambridge Records collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 113.831KB / 6 pages]
- Bob Fosse and Gwen Verdon collection, clippings from the collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 94.195KB / 5 pages]
- David Martin Freedman papers from the WWOZ collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 118.877KB / 7 pages]
G
- Harvey J. Gannon collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 95.991KB / 6 pages]
- Sandy Gibson rock and roll radio collection transcripts and production materials [View Finding aid] [PDF : 137.021KB / 10 pages]
- Golden Crest Records Papers from the John Broven Collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 169.057KB / 18 pages]
- Greatest Story Ever Told radio script collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 201.336KB / 31 pages]
- Papers from the H. Vose Greenough Jr. Collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 122.055KB / 7 pages]
H
- Jerry Hatch collection, WBAI correspondence from the collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 112.588KB / 9 pages]
- Heartbeat Theatre radio scripts collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 271.174KB / 37 pages]
- The hermit’s cave collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 207.756KB / 25 pages]
- Highwaymen collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 101.464KB / 7 pages]
- Bob Hope Collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 1611.037KB / 401 pages]
- David G. Hummel American musical theatre collection, playbills, research materials, and other papers from the collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 693.144KB / 133 pages]
I
- Indochina Studies Program Grants collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 104.107KB / 8 pages]
- International association of sound and audiovisual archives records [View Finding aid] [PDF : 195.229KB / 23 pages]
J
- Jump Records papers [View Finding aid] [PDF : 123.616KB / 7 pages]
K
- Joseph Nathan Kane Collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 122.135KB / 8 pages]
- MacKinlay Kantor papers, dictation belt recordings and commentaries from the papers [View Finding aid] [PDF : 144.016KB / 11 pages]
- Jack Kapp Collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 158.182KB / 16 pages]
- Louisiana Hayride Collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 243.007KB / 26 pages]
- Morris Perelmuter King collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 124.301KB / 7 pages]
- David Kogan papers [View Finding aid] [PDF : 118.336KB / 7 pages]
- Andre Kostelanetz collection, publicity and awards from the collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 94.935KB / 5 pages]
L
- Linguaphone Institute collection, language manuals from the collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 92.517KB / 5 pages]
- Phillips H. Lord Collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 755.460KB / 144 pages]
M
- J. Fred and Leslie W. MacDonald collection, transcripts from the collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 94.334KB / 6 pages]
- Mary Margaret McBride Photographs from the Lowry/McBride Collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 106.085KB / 9 pages]
- Milton Berle papers, Mennen shave time scripts from the [View Finding aid] [PDF : 123.204KB / 11 pages]
- Jim Metzner collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 503.324KB / 98 pages]
- Liza Minnelli Carnegie Hall Collection, production materials from the collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 93.503KB / 6 pages]
- Richard and Judith Mintel Collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 154.512KB / 19 pages]
- Carlton E. Morse Script Collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 128.562KB / 8 pages]
N
- Alanna Nash archive [View Finding aid] [PDF : 143.059KB / 11 pages]
- The National Broadcasting Company History Files [View Finding aid] [PDF : 785.717KB / 199 pages]
- National Broadcasting Company press releases. Part 1 [View Finding aid] [PDF : 142.676KB / 12 pages]
- NBC radio and TV program schedules [View Finding aid] [PDF : 121.751KB / 7 pages]
- National Men's Chorus collection, concert programs from the collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 116.062KB / 6 pages]
- New American Radio Project papers [View Finding aid] [PDF : 129.390KB / 9 pages]
- Yale Newman scripts collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 337.755KB / 50 pages]
O
- Arch Oboler Collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 653.048KB / 133 pages]
P
- Pacifica Radio records [View Finding aid] [PDF : 107.380KB / 8 pages]
- Transcripts and Photographs from the John Peter Collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 135.281KB / 12 pages]
- Phonolog serial collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 816.076KB / 178 pages]
- Phonoscopies serial collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 93.194KB / 6 pages]
- Allen Prescott Collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 134.215KB / 10 pages]
R
- Radio advertisement script collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 89.278KB / 5 pages]
- Record Industry Publicity Collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 163.564KB / 17 pages]
- John D. Reid papers [View Finding aid] [PDF : 179.635KB / 34 pages]
- Margaret Rupli Woodward collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 99.183KB / 6 pages]
S
- Papers from the Isabelle Sayers Collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 157.370KB / 11 pages]
- Tony Schwartz Collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 601.632KB / 108 pages]
- Papers from the John Secrist Jr. Collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 128.894KB / 9 pages]
- Frank Seeley collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 116.408KB / 6 pages]
- Record newsletters and catalogs from the Edward J. Smith papers [View Finding aid] [PDF : 128.487KB / 11 pages]
- Joe Smith Collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 203.387KB / 31 pages]
- Transcripts from the Gerald S. and Deborah H. Strober oral history collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 339.603KB / 61 pages]
T
- Records from the Transco collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 202.771KB / 22 pages]
U
- United States Armed Forces Institute collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 98.595KB / 6 pages]
V
- Voice of America Collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 212.035KB / 30 pages]
W
- Papers from the Jim Walsh Collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 204.994KB / 26 pages]
- Rusty Warren collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 185.634KB / 26 pages]
- Washington Bach Consort collection, concert programs from the collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 108.148KB / 5 pages]
- Kurt Weisbecker collection, Glenda Abdoo and Ken Crawford papers from the collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 139.349KB / 11 pages]
- Al Wester collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 166.632KB / 22 pages]
- WOR collection, scores from the collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 253.824KB / 53 pages]
- WOR collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 163.689KB / 20 pages]
- WOR oral history interview transcripts [View Finding aid] [PDF : 118.766KB / 6 pages]
- WTON papers [View Finding aid] [PDF : 125.522KB / 8 pages]