Broadside Television (T.V.) Collection
Scope and Contents
The Broadside Television Collection includes both manuscripts and tapes. The manuscript documentation includes legal, financial, personnel, publicity and programming records, as well as correspondence and grant proposals. The tapes cover the myriad of topics included among Broadside's programs. Among these topics are local and regional history, environment, aging, medical care, Appalachian folklore, and country music.
An addition incorporated into the existing collection includes 36 open-reel videotapes, two audiotapes, 117 photographs, and 42 slides related to various program productions of Broadside, along with two folders of production notes on the Galax, Virginia Fiddlers Convention (1975) and of an interview with weaver Taft Greer (undated).
Dates
- 1970 - 1978
Creator
- Broadside Television (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for research. Digital access copies to a portion of the audiovisual material are available for onsite use.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright restrictions may apply to some material. More specific restrictions are documented at the item level.
Extent
6.00 linear feet (619 videotapes, 19 audiocassettes, 12 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
The collection is divided into the following series: Series 1, Legal Documents, 1973-77; Series 2, Management Papers, 1975-78; Series 3, Correspondence, 1970-78; Series 4, Financial Records, 1973-79; Series 5, Personnel Records, 1973-78; Series 6, Publicity and Public Opinion Surveys, 1973-78; Series 7, Grant Applications, 1973-78; Series 8, Project Proposals, 1972-78; Series 9, Programming, 1972-77; Series 10, Other Activities, 1974-77; and Series 11, Audio and Video Tapes, 1971-78.
Method of Acquisition
The bulk of the collection, audio and video tapes came to the Archives in January 1979. Broadside had filed for bankruptcy in 1978. Hamilton Bank in Johnson City, Tennessee, had possession of the station's papers and tapes, which East Tennessee State University purchased with the aid of William Lancaster, III, trustee for Broadside.
Accruals and Additions
The addition to the Broadside Television Collection was donated to the Archives on September 19, 1987 by David Larry Nave, Mountain City, Tennessee, and opened to researchers in February 1997.
Processing Information
The original part of the collection was processed by Anne Sims, and became available for research in January 1980. Marie Tedesco revised the finding aid in 1991. Ned Irwin completed processing on the addition in 1997.
With support from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, selected preservation masters and public-use copies were made in 2001/2002.
- Bennett, Lynn
- Carpenter, Ted
- Congo, Paul
- DelGardo, Ralph
- Dunlap, Blaine
- Greer, Taft
- Merryman, G. Randall
- Moore, R. Raymond
- Owen, Jim
- Ponder, Terrell
- Ricker, William
- Scalf, Phyllis
- Sessions, Robert
- Sturgill, Dave
- Appalachian Region, Southern -- Economic conditions Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Appalachian Regional Commission
- Austin, Richard Cartwright, 1934-
- Blaustein, Richard
- Bluegrass music Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Charles H. Revson Foundation
- Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
- Coal mines and mining Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Conservation of natural resources -- Study and teaching Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Corporation records Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Country music Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Education Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Festivals Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Festivals -- Tennessee Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Fiddling Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- First Tennessee-Virginia Development District
- Folk dancing Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Food--Preservation Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Ford Foundation
- Ghosts Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Gregg, Margaret, 1940-
- Handicraft Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Highlander Research and Education Center (Knoxville, Tenn.)
- Instrumental music Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- John and Mary R. Markle Foundation
- Labor unions Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
- Ledgers (account books) Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Lilly Endowment
- Manners and customs Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
- Manning, Ambrose N.
- Music festivals Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
- National Endowment for the Arts
- National Endowment for the Humanities
- National Storytelling Festival Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Old Fiddlers' Convention Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
- Old-time music Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
- Personal papers Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Political participation Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
- Publications (document genre) Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Rockefeller Foundation
- Sarah Ogan Gunning, 1910-1983
- Schools--Tennessee--Johnson City Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Snake cults (Holiness churches) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Southern Appalachian Video Ethnography Series Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
- Storytelling Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Strikes and lockouts Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
- Superstition Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
- Television in education Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
- Television programs, Public service Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
- Tennessee Committee for the Humanities
- United States. Federal Communications Commission
- Video tapes in education Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
- VideoMaker (Firm)
- Warner Communications Inc.
- Weaving Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Archives of Appalachia Repository
PO Box 70295
344 J.L. Seehorn Jr. Rd.
Johnson City TN 37614 USA
423-439-4338
423/439-4338
archives@etsu.edu
