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WKAR (Radio station : East Lansing, Mich.)

 Organization

Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

Amateur Radio Club records

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-12.3.21
Scope and Content The Amateur Radio Club records cover the time period 1924-1992, with the bulk falling between 1948 and 1989. Minutes of meetings, financial transactions, correspondence, and station and contest logs make up the majority of the collection. One bound volume contains early logs for WKAR (1924) and W8SH (1927-1931), as well as minutes of meetings (1932-1936), a list of operators (1927-1936), treasurer's reports (1933) and vibration experiment notes (1925). The records also include two boxes...
Dates: 1924 - 1992; Majority of material found within 1948 - 1989

Broadcasting Services records

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-3.3.5
Scope and Contents This collection consists of materials from Broadcasting Services, WKAR-TV, WMSB, and WKAR AM/FM. Included are programming guides, meeting minutes, Federal Communications Commission channel hearings, and photographic materials. The Electronic Resources include digitized University Distinguished Professor videos from 2005 and 2007; a video of oral history interviews titled "Out of the Fields"; audio recordings of interviews of survivors and veterans of World War II living in...
Dates: 1920 - 2008

Chace Newman papers

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.37
Scope and Contents This collection consists of personal papers of Chace Newman, including correspondence, newspaper articles, papers he authored, manuscripts, notes, drawings, collected research materials, a scrapbook of events and happenings at the college, and other materials he used to teach courses in mechanical drawing and design. There are also scripts for lectures he gave on WKAR Radio about the architecture of the home. Also include are Ruth Newman photographs which include images that are probably of...
Dates: 1894 - 1951

Joseph W. Stack papers

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.44
Scope and Contents The Joseph W. Stack papers relate to Stack's tenure as a professor in the Department of Zoology and as curator and director of the MSU Museum. His particular areas of interest were ornithology and bird banding. Other subjects covered in Stack's papers are the university curriculum, the Inland Bird Banding Association, and Stack's work with the Works Progress Administration (WPA). Materials found in the collection include maps, bird banding records, student reports and papers, manuscripts,...
Dates: 1916 - 1953

Robert B. Brown collection

 Collection
Identifier: UA-17.424
Scope and Contents Note The Robert B. Brown collection contains motion picture film, slides, negatives and color transparencies. The film reels are mostly unidentified but may contain footage of an MSU football game, football practice, Hubbard Hall(?) in winter, Intramural building, labs and offices, children's field trip to a planetarium. Images in the collection include aerial views of Michigan State University, campus buildings, faculty and staff working, students, students in dorm rooms, classroom scenes,...
Dates: 1950-1970, undated

University Archives and Historical Collections records

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-3.7
Scope and Contents The records of the University Archives and Historical Collections consist of brochures and flyers, published guides to the Historical Collections, a records control manual (1973), Disaster Plans, photographs, a time capsule, a DVD (2005) highlighting the Archives’ resources, and other publications.The Electronic Resources include images used in the University Archives and Historical Collections Calendar for 2003 and 2004; digital photographs and documents from the UAHC sponsored...
Dates: 1969 - 2019

WKAR Radio Broadcasting records

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-3.3.5.3
Scope and Contents The records of WKAR Radio Broadcasting include production logs (1945-1946), radio scripts (1942-1952, undated), radio scrapbook poems (1948-1953), Special Courses by Radio schedules, Radio School of Biology materials, reports, news releases, audience surveys, and brochures. There is also a cassette of the seminar “Adventures in World Understanding” in which foreign students discuss their perceptions of international relationships. This collection also includes photographs. The bulk of the...
Dates: 1926 - 2009