Title: Michael Nolan Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1967-1969

Creator:

• Nolan, Michael

Call Number: M2006-098

Extent: 1.2 c.f. (3 archives boxes) and 13 photographs (1 folder)

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

Papers of Michael Nolan, a researcher and Associate Producer for the Public Broadcasting Laboratory (PBL), a television experiment financed by the Ford Foundation and a part of National Educational Television (NET). PBL was broadcast live on Sunday nights to the 129 NET affiliated public television networks across the nation from November 1967 to April 1969. The papers document Nolan's professional role in PBL, and also include a small quantity of personal papers.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-m2006098

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The papers consist of historical files, correspondence, research materials, program transcripts and press releases, employee information, policy manuals, and Nolan's personal files. Also included are NET/Ford Foundation materials including files of the Program Advisory Committee and the Editorial Policy Board; speeches and writings by Executive Producer/Director Av Westin, Executive Director Fred Bohen, McGeorge Bundy, and Fred Friendly; and news clippings.

Acquisition Information

Presented by Michael Nolan, San Francisco, California. Accession Number: M2006-098

M2006-098	Explanatory documents, 1967-1969
Box   1 Folder   1	Public Broadcasting Laboratory (PBL) - Early days
Box   1 Folder   2	Employee ideas and criticisms
Box   1 Folder   3	End of PBL
Box   1 Folder   4	PBL general press releases
Box   1 Folder   5	PBL press Kit
	PBL office/programming files, 1967-1969
	Correspondence
Box   1 Folder   6	General correspondence
Box   1 Folder   7	Fred Bohen correspondence
Box   1 Folder   8	Sucherman correspondence
Box   1 Folder   9	Correspondence - KQED and WGBH
Box   1 Folder   10-11	Inter-office correspondence
Box   1 Folder   12-13	Program related correspondence
Box   1 Folder   14	Racial crisis in Kansas City project correspondence
Box   1 Folder   15	Library/researchers
Box   1 Folder   16	Research materials
Box   1 Folder   17	Project proposals
Box   1 Folder   18-19	Press releases - programs
Box   2 Folder   1-3	Program transcripts
Box   2 Folder   4	Employee files
Box   2 Folder   5	PBL policy manual
Box   2 Folder   6	Miscellaneous
	Personal files
Box   2 Folder   7	Nolan - employment file
Box   2 Folder   8	Nolan - personal correspondence/papers
	National Educational Television (NET)/Ford Foundation, 1967-1969
Box   2 Folder   9	Program advisory committee
Box   2 Folder   10	Editorial policy board/NET biographies
Box   2 Folder   11-12	NET
	Speeches/writings
Box   2 Folder   13	Av Westin
Box   2 Folder   14	Fred Bohen
Box   3 Folder   1	McGeorge Bundy
Box   3 Folder   2	Fred Friendly
Box   3 Folder   3	Subcommittee on communications hearing
Box   3 Folder   4	Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB)
Box   3 Folder   5	CPB board biographies
Box   3 Folder   6	National Association of Educational Broadcasters (NAEB)
Box   3 Folder   7	National Citizens Committee for Public Broadcasting/Federal Communication Commission
Box   3 Folder   8	Carnegie commission
Box   3 Folder   9	Television quarterly
Box   3 Folder   10	One week of educational television
Box   3 Folder   11-14	Clippings, 1967-1969
PH Box   9	Photographs included in PBL second season press kit and assorted photographs of PBL officials Physical Description: 13 photographs (1 folder)