St. Louis Radio Collection

Collected by Art Department, SLPL.

Collected by Frank Absher; Steve Sorkin; Richard Wassall;

Anthony Cabanellas; Barb Godfrey; Greg Kornfeld; Larry Hoffman; Dick Ulett; Rita Jensen; Susan Wolin; Barbara Anderson; Bob Kochan.

The St. Louis Media Archives dates to 1987, when St. Louis Public Library and the Press Club of Metropolitan St. Louis agreed to work together to create an archival collection of materials documenting the history of media in the St. Louis region. The bulk of the collection consists of donations from people associated with the St. Louis media, supplemented with rich resources from Library collections.  

Individual donations were made by unknown donors between 1989 and 2013. These donations have been interfiled with the materials transferred to Special Collections from the Tin Room Files and the Art Department and the donations given by Frank Absher and the St. Louis Media History Foundation in order to make one discrete collection. 

The first accession is thought to be come from SLPL stacks, Art Department, and Tin Room files, which were vertical files assembled over time. In addition to the transfer of these files to Special

Collections, Special Collections staff have been collecting ephemera for the collection.

Frank Absher and the St. Louis Media History Foundation has been donating materials since 1988 and continues to actively donate to the collection. Non-clipping items are integrated into the St. Louis Radio Collection once it has been accessioned.

The St. Louis Radio Collection aims to serve researchers of St. Louis media by providing them with historical information on radio stations in the St. Louis area. The files include correspondence, administrative files, memorabilia, ephemera and memorabilia about individual radio stations as well as those employed at the stations. The majority of the material is related to marketing and advertising, particularly promotional items.

Acquisitions for the St. Louis Radio Collection are still ongoing.

Some fragile items. Some items are oversized or have odd dimensions and housed in map drawers. The collection is still growing and the number of boxes as well as their contents may change.

Jean Gosebrink accession numbers included with appropriate items.

Correspondence, various radio stations: broadcast engineer in

1980s. KYMC, KLTH, KSTL-AM, KCFM, KSD-FM, KMJMFM, KFUO; Paul S. WBCE, WRTE, KBDY, WLCA, KSLH, WTPC, WTPC, WAOX

KADI-FM, playlists—KADI outsight record report, 1970-1971. Ge-580,

MA 14:02