The Alice Keith Papers is a very miscellaneous collection dealing with her careers as a teacher of music, both in schools and over the radio, and as Director of the National Academy of Broadcasting in Washington, D.C.
The correspondence is largely of a personal nature. Early letters are from Miss Keith at school or in various places around the country where she worked for the War Camp Community Service. Letters during the 1930's show Miss Keith's efforts to become recognized as the first of the educational broadcasters. Most of the letters from the 1940's and 1950's are between Miss Keith and Magda de Spur, a Hungarian refugee.
The articles and addresses deal with all phases of education. Scripts are from CBS's American School of the Air, and the N.A.O.B.'s Music in the Air, and teachers manuals.
Most of the press releases and printed materials pertain to educational broadcasting or the N.A.O.B. There are more things of this type in volumes 2 and 3 of the scrapbooks.
Miss Keith's memorabilia consists of mementos from her school days, early teaching jobs, and trips. More material of this sort may be found in volume 1 of the scrapbooks.
Tape Recordings include programs used by Alice Keith while director of the National Academy of Broadcasting, Washington, D.C. Disc recordings include five recordings to be used with the course of study, How to Speak and Write for Radio, 1944, accompanied by the textbook; and one recording of lessons by Alice Keith called The Microphone and You, both prepared by Alice Keith for the N.A.O.B.
