Patrick H. Barnes Papers, 1918-1969

Contents List

Container Title
U.S. Mss 59AF
Part 1 (U.S. Mss 59AF): Original Collection, 1951-1962
Physical Description: 0.2 cubic feet (1 archives box) 
Box   1
Reminiscences, 1951 and undated
Box   1
“The Birth of Jesus,” script
Public service reports, 1962 October-December
Box   1
Television
Box   1
Radio
Box   1
Biographical data
MCHC70-074
Part 2 (MCHC70-074, Audio 1893A): Additions, 1918-1969
Physical Description: 3.0 cubic feet (3 records center cartons), 88 disc recordings, 21 tape recordings, 0.1 cubic feet of photographs (1 folder), and 1 drawing (1 oversize folder) 
Scope and Content Note: Additional papers, 1918-1969, consisting of biographical materials, correspondence, speeches, other writings, audio recordings, an oversize 1930 pencil drawing of Mrs. Barnes and daughter Barbara, and a folder of professional photographs.
Box   1
Biographical materials--Patt Barnes
Box   1
Biographical materials--Barbara Barnes Orteig Plante
Box   1
Publicity
Box   1
Clippings
Box   1
Radio Pioneers
Box   1
Television Public Service Reports for WISN (Milwaukee), 1962 March-June
Box   1
WISN administration
Box   1
Wisconsin Agricultural Hall of Fame
Correspondence
Box   1
Blankett-Sample-Hummert Inc. Advertising
Box   1
General
Box   1
Request lists
Box   1
Special letters
Box   1
V.I.P. letters
Box   1
Christmas card list, 1964
Box   1
Community groups (WISN), 1963-1964
Box   1
Miscellaneous
Speeches
Box   1
Public Relations Association, Wisconsin, 1956
Milwaukee Press Club
Box   1
Gridiron dinner, 1957 and 1958
Physical Description: 2 folders 
Box   1
Hall of Fame dinner, 1957, 1959, 1963, 1968
Physical Description: 2 folders 
Box   1
American Legion St. Patrick's Day banquet, 1968
Box   1
Radio-television seminar for UW-Milwaukee students, 1966
Box   1
Cedarburg High School, 1968
Box   1
Eagles Luncheon Club, St. Patrick's Day, 1969
Box   1
Others
Writings
Box   1
“Album for Squares” record, 1966
Box   1
“Feathers” for book
Box   1
“Pick-ups”
Box   1
“Your Home Town,” 1937
Box   1
Newsletter (WISN-TV)
Box   1
[No title]
Box   1
“A Buck on Leave,” 1918
Note: Also includes “The Bridegroom.”
Box   1
“Oliver Twist”
Box   1
“Court of Laughter” and “Laugh Institute”
Box   1
Gags
Box   1
Miscellaneous writings
Audition scripts, specimen scripts, and ideas
Box   1
Heinz specimen scripts, 1936
Box   1
“Henry Adams”
Box   1
W.T. Grant Co., 1937
Box   1
“Rhodora,” A Christmas Fantasy
Box   1
Lucky Strike
Box   1
Holland Furnace audition
Box   1
“Mr. Strong of Hollywood,” specimen copies, 1936
Box   1
Montgomery Ward & Co. audition
Box   1
“Chloe,” song dramatization
Box   1
“Happiness, Inc.,” specimen copies, 1936
Box   1
“Romance of the News” (Scott's Emulsion)
Box   1
General Tire audition, 1934
Box   1
Bauer & Black audition
Box   1
“Portraits by James Metcalf,” circa 1950s
Box   1
A. Funk audition, 1963
Box   1
“Dollars and Sense,” circa 1964
Box   1
“Your Town/A Romance of Today”
Box   1
Write-ups
Box   1
Program ideas
Physical Description: 4 folders 
Box   1
Other specimen scripts
Special programs
Box   1
[Famous birthdays]
Physical Description: 2 folders 
Box   1
Christmas, Standard Oil Company, 1956
Box   1
Christmas, 1958-1965
Box   1
City of Hope, 1963-1965
Box   1
Easter Monday/Little Old Lady
Box   1
Flag Day, 1959
Box   1
[4th of July] Patrick Henry interview, 1958-1960, 1965
Box   1
Good Friday, 1947, 1966
Box   1
Interview scripts
Box   1
“Ireland, Today and Yesterday,” 1962
Box   1
Memorial Day, 1961-1966
Box   1
Mother's Day, 1957-1967
Box   1
[Program introductions], undated
Box   1
St. Patrick's Day, 1959, 1962, 1964, 1966
Box   1
Salute to the 32nd Division, 1961
Box   1
Thanksgiving, 1959, 1961
Box   1
United Fund show, 1960
Box   1
WISN birthday, 1961
Continuing programs
Box   2
“Jimmy and Granddad,” NBC-Blue Network, 1931-1933?
Box   2
“Old Timer,” WGN (Chicago), 1928-1929
Box   2
“Mister Kelly,” WGN (Chicago), 1929-1930
Box   2
“Music Magic,” 1933
Box   2
Tastyeast, 1933
Box   2
“Just Between Us,” WGN (Chicago), 1937
Box   2
“LombardoLand,” NBC-Red Network, 1934-1935
“Pat Barnes in Person,” NBC-Red Network
Box   2
#1-117, 1935 September-1936 May
Box   3
#118-130, 1936 June
Box   3
“Morning in Manhattan,” WEAF, 1945
Box   3
“People and Things,” WJZ (NYC), 1947-1949, 1953-1954, 1957
Box   3
“Barnes & Barnes,” WJZ (NYC), 1951
Box   3
“Pat Barnes & Barbara,” WOR (NYC), 1952-1953
Box   3
“Barnes Family Album,” WOR-TV (NYC), 1952
Box   3
“Patt & Eleanor Barnes,” WOR (NYC), 1953-1954
Box   3
“Holland Furnace,” 1956-1958
Box   3
“Golden Guernsey [Dairy] Family Album,” WISN-TV (Milwaukee), 1957-1959
Box   3
WISN-TV 2-minute vignettes, 1958-1960, 1962-1968
Box   3
“The Barbara Orteig Show/Coffee Break,” WISN-TV, 1962
Box   3
Harvey O. Preuss florist, ad copy, WISN-TV, 1964-1968
Box   3
“The Quiet Hour,” with Jack Raymond WISN, undated
Box   3
Miscellaneous script pages, undated
Box   3
Cue cards, undated
Physical Description: Photocopies 
PH Box   22
Photographs
Oversize Folder   1
Drawing
Audio 1893A
Audio recordings
1893A/1
“Portrait One,” 1953 March 3
1893A/2
“Capitol Theater,” 1954 February 11
1893A/6
“Good Friday-Life of Jesus,” 1956 July 7
1893A/9
“Good Friday-Life of Jesus,” 1960 August 22
1893A/20
[Pat Barnes, Holland Furnace?], 1956 September 17
1893A/21
[Pat Barnes Show?], 1956 September 24
1893A/7
“People and Things,” Flag Day, 1957 June 6
1893A/8
“Gateway to the World,” and WISN IDs, 1950s? December
“Milwaukee Reports”
1893A/10
James Hoffa, 1962 March 3
1893A/11
Fred Wilkinson, 1962 October 10
1893A/12
Mr. E. Hass, 1964 October 1
1893A/13
Robert J. O'Connell, 1965 October 5
1893A/16
[unidentified episode], 1966 October 9
1893A/17-18
Judge Hansen Wills-Miranda decision, 1967 April 27, May 5
1893A/19
Congressman Zablocki, 1967 June 4
1893A/14-15
“Album for Squares” by Pat Barnes, 1966 March 3
Patt Barnes Show
1893A/3
1954 February 26
1893A/4
1954 March 5
1893A/5
Holland Furnace (sponsor), 1954 September 19
MCHC70-074
10-inch discs
Sound Box   6
[unidentified; “Patt Barnes” on sleeve], Sanders Records, undated
Sound Box   6
“Sylvia/Proud to be an American,” 1955 September 25
Sound Box   6
“Holland Furnace #4,” 1958 March 17
12-inch discs
Sound Box   2
“The Yellow Streak,” National Radio Advertising Co., undated
Physical Description: 5-disc set 
Sound Box   3
“At the Press Club Window,” National Radio Advertising Co., undated
Physical Description: 6-disc set, labeled c-3227 through c-3232 
Sound Box   4
“Blue Moon,” National Radio Advertising Co., undated
Physical Description: 6-disc set, labeled e-29493 through e-29498 
Sound Box   5
“Your 1000th Broadcast,” Con Edison, 1956 June 21
Physical Description: 2-disc set 
Sound Box   6
“Do You Know?,” 1939 March 8
Physical Description: 78 rpm 
Sound Box   6
“The Dream Painter,” 1940 February 26
Physical Description: 33 rpm 
Sound Box   6
“Meet The Mrs.” (marked “father spot”), CBS, 1947 July 9
Sound Box   6
“People and Things,” 1948 March 15
Physical Description: 2 discs 
Sound Box   6
“People and Things,” undated
Sound Box   6
“Patt Barnes,” 1949 March 26
Physical Description: 78 rpm 
Sound Box   6
“Audition with Mutual Network,” 1953 April 8
Sound Box   6
“Audition with WOR,” 1953 June 22
Physical Description: 2 discs 
Sound Box   6
“Flag Day Poems,” 1959 June 11
Physical Description: 78 rpm 
Sound Box   6
“TV,” 1959 July 3
Physical Description: 78 rpm 
Sound Box   6
“4th of July,” 1960 July 1
Physical Description: 78 rpm 
Sound Box   6
“The Bride Groom #6,” undated
Physical Description: One side only 
Sound Box   6
“Songs” (On Wisconsin, Crying the Blues, etc.), undated
Physical Description: 2 discs/2 sides 
Sound Box   6
[”Morning in Manhattan” NBC], undated
Physical Description: Received broken/discarded 
WISN (Milwaukee)
Physical Description: Mostly 16-inch 
Sound Box   7
“Pat Barnes Theme” song ”I'll be Seeing You,” 1955 March 2
Physical Description: 2 sides 
“People and Things”
Sound Box   7
“Labor Day,” 1955 September 11 and 18
Physical Description: 2 sides 
Sound Box   7
“The Three R's,” 1955 September 25 and October 23
Physical Description: 2 sides 
Sound Box   7
“Cherry Tree,” 1955 October 2 and 9
Physical Description: 2 sides 
Sound Box   7
[no title], 1955 October 30 and November 6
Physical Description: 2 sides 
Sound Box   7
“Pick-ups,” 1955 November 13 and 20
Physical Description: 2 sides 
Sound Box   7
[no title], 1955 November 27 and December 4
Physical Description: 2 sides 
Sound Box   7
“Christmas,” 1955 December 11 and 18
Physical Description: 2 sides 
Sound Box   7
“Holland Furnace,” 1956 April 24
Sound Box   7
“Holland Furnace,” 1957 February 12
Sound Box   7
[no title], 1957 September 10
Sound Box   7
“Good Friday,” 13 cuts TV promos, 1961 March 21
Other
Sound Box   7
“Hitler's Speech with H.V. Kaltenborn's comments,” 1939 October 6
Sound Box   7
“World Series, Yankees vs. Reds, 4th game, top of the 9th inning 1939,” Barnes reading from A.P. wire, 1940 February 26
Physical Description: 2 sides 
16-inch discs
ABC
Sound Box   8
“Yonkers,” 1946 August 23
Physical Description: 15 minutes, one side only 
Sound Box   8
“#23,” WJZ, 1946 October 9
Physical Description: 15 minutes, one side only 
Sound Box   8
“Checker Champ,” 1946 October 16
Physical Description: 15 minutes, one side only 
Sound Box   8
“Easter Show,” WJZ part 1, 1950 April 7
Physical Description: 15 minutes 
Sound Box   8
“Easter Show,” WJZ part 2, 1950 April 7
Physical Description: 15 minutes 
Sound Box   8
[no title], 1946 March 11
Physical Description: 15 minutes, one side only 
Sound Box   8
[no title], 1946 June 5
Physical Description: 15 minutes, one side only 
Sound Box   8
[no title], 1946 June 17
Physical Description: 15 minutes, one side only 
Sound Box   8
[no title], 1946 August 28
Physical Description: 15 minutes, one side only 
Sound Box   8
[no title], 1948 February 4
Physical Description: 15 minutes, one side only 
Sound Box   8
[no title], part 2, 1948 March 17
Sound Box   8
[no title], 1950 November 13
Physical Description: Side 1, 15 minutes 
Sound Box   8
[no title], 1950 November 13
Physical Description: Side 2, 15 minutes 
Sound Box   8
[no title], part 1, 1951 March 23
Sound Box   8
[no title], part 2, 1951 March 23
WBS
Physical Description: 33 1/3 rpm 
Sound Box   9
“Old Timers Drive,” GE Presents, programs #5-[14?], undated
Physical Description: 5 discs, 2 sides each 
Sound Box   9
“Pat Barnes in Person,” Proctor & Gamble, undated
Physical Description: 3 discs, 2 sides each 
Sound Box   9
#100 backed with #105
Sound Box   9
#105 backed with [not listed]
Sound Box   9
#110 backed with [not listed]
WOR Radio (NY)
Physical Description: Special needles with discs 
Sound Box   9
“Just Between Us,” 1937 June 13
Physical Description: One side 
Sound Box   9
“Just Between Us,” 1937 June 20
Physical Description: One side 
Sound Box   9
“Audition,” 1938 September 30
Sound Box   9
“WOR Air,” Empire Records, 1954 February 15
Other
Sound Box   8
“Jimmy Durante,” interview by Pat and Barbara Barnes WOR for 10/11/51 broadcast, 1951 October 2
Sound Box   9
“Audition: The Man From Grants,” undated
Sound Box   9
“WGN, Gunn Trio Audition,” “Just for You,” 1954 November 20
“NBC Auditions”
N.W. Ayer, 1937 March 18
Physical Description: Acetate, 33 rpm, inside start 
Sound Box   10
part 1
Sound Box   10
part 2
[no title], 1954 November 4
Sound Box   10
part 1
Sound Box   10
part 2
“Opie Gates,” 1947 December 22
Physical Description: Each one side only 
Sound Box   10
part 1
Sound Box   10
part 2