Subseries: Subseries 5A. Washington Office Records, 1950-1963
Physical Description: 202 boxes 
Scope and Content Note: These files were almost entirely inherited by NET. They comprise some files of the JCET, the JCEB, and the FAE roughly from 1950 to 1961. NET's primary contribution was one of caretaker and custodian although they added to the files during the years 1961-1963. These files are arranged as follows:

Sub-subseries 1: FAE Grant Proceedings	Boxes 185-201
Sub-subseries 2: JCET Admin. Subject File	Boxes 155-176
Sub-subseries 3: JCET State and City Files	Boxes 1-94
Sub-subseries 4: JCET Publicity Files	Boxes 95-154
Sub-subseries 5: JCEB Admin. Subject File	Boxes 177-182
Sub-subseries 6: Miscellaneous	Boxes 183-184a

Sub-subseries 1: FAE Grant Proceedings, 1951-1961
Scope and Content Note

This file is placed first in order because it documents the first NET-related effort at station activation through direct financing. JCET became a part of NET's history almost 10 years after FAE did, hence the order.

The FAE, using Ford Foundation money, existed to establish ETV stations with the stipulation that they provide programming to NET for distribution and that they be an outlet for NET programming. The influence of C. Scott Fletcher can be seen here. FAE also awarded grants directly to NAEB to produce radio programs using local stations' studios, equipment, and personnel.

The FAE was established in April 1951 and concluded operations on 30 June 1961, when NET took over the relationship with those local stations that had not completed the 8-year provision of their grant contract with FAE. Arranged alphabetically by state and thereunder by the name of the organization or city receiving the grant. The grant files contain the following types of documents: correspondence between FAE and local people responsible for ETV from pre-grant through transfer of title of equipment from FAE to local station; reports of FAE personnel on visits to local stations; conference proceedings of locally called meetings on ETV; local proposal to FAE; clippings; telegrams; proceedings of hearings before state legislatures on ETV; minutes of board and An. Gen. Mtgs. of local sponsoring body; also by-laws on some; reports on type of programs being offered locally; published studies on uses of ETV; 1958 NET questionnaire on content of local programming; local fund raising campaign brochures and pamphlets; formal agreement signed by local sponsoring body and FAE; lists of equipment requests and purchases made through FAE Grant; and floor plans and station plans.

Money from the grants were to be used only for purposes of equipping the ETV facility, and not to offset operating expenses. Therefore, a grant application was accepted by FAE only after it had been established that the station was a going concern and that most of the leg work had been done.

To obtain an FAE matching grant the station had to present an FCC construction permit, a certification of its non-profit, tax exempt status, and a detailed engineering report indicating specifically how the money was to be used. The station also had to match the amount of the grant 2 to 1 from local private sources. The station had to keep accurate books and records showing use of the proceeds and matching funds and they had to move with reasonable expedition toward applying the grant and matching funds toward the installation of a broadcasting station. If the station successfully broadcast for a period of three years subject to further conditions relative to the quality and nature of the programming supplied to the community, then, after an additional 5 year waiting period, they were given permanent title to the equipment they had been using.

These files are valuable for the picture they present of how a local ETV station got started, the problems it faced to keep going, the growth of the station, and its relevance in providing education of liberal character for adult population. The files also give a picture of how ETV grew nationally and how the FAE helped in this process through its grants and moral support.

Alabama: University of Alabama

Documents

Questionnaire sent, 1958 December

1952-1956

1957-1963

California: San Francisco

Documents

Supplemental documents

Questionnaire

1952-1953

1954

1955

1956

1957-1960

Colorado: Denver

Documents

Questionnaire sent, 1958 December

1952-1954

1955-1961

Florida: Miami

Bills of Sale

Document

Questionnaire sent, 1958 December

1951-1954

1955

1956

1957-1960

Illinois

Chicago

Documents

Questionnaire sent, 1958 December

1952-1954

1955-1956

1957-1961

Urbana

Documents

Questionnaire sent, 1958 December

1952-1956

1957-1959

Indiana: Bloomington

Documents

1953-1959

Louisiana: New Orleans

Documents

Documents

Questionnaire sent, 1958 December

1953-1956

1957-1961

Massachusetts: Boston

Blueprints

Documents

Questionnaire sent, 1958 December

1951-1953

1954-1955

1956-1958

1959

Michigan

Detroit

Blueprints

Blueprints

Documents

Questionnaire sent, 1958 December

1952-1953

1954-1955

1956-1961

East Lansing

Documents

Documents

Questionnaire sent, 1958 December

1952-1956

1957-1961

Minnesota: Minneapolis

Documents

Questionnaire sent, 1958 December

1952-1954

1955-1958

Missouri: St. Louis

Agreements

Documents

Questionnaire sent, 1958 December

1951-1954

1955-1961

Nebraska: Lincoln

Documents

Documents

Questionnaire

University of Nebraska

1957

New York

New York City

Documents

Floor Plans

1953-1954

1955

1956

1957

1958-1959

1960

New York University, documents

Syracuse

Documents

1952-1959

North Carolina: Chapel Hill

Documents

Questionnaire sent, 1958 December

1951-1955

1956-1960

Ohio

Cincinnati

Documents

Questionnaire sent, 1958 December

1953-1955

1956

1957-1961

Columbus

Documents

Questionnaire sent, 1958 December

Printed material sent with questionnaire

1952-1960

Pennsylvania

Philadelphia

Documents

Questionnaire sent, 1958 December

1952-1956

1957-1961

Pittsburgh

Documents

Documents

Questionnaire sent, 1958 December

1952-1955

1956-1960

Tennessee: Memphis

Documents

Questionnaire sent, 1958 December

1953-1954

1955

1956 January-June

1956 July-December

1957-1961

Treasurer's Report, 1955 October

Texas: Houston

Documents

Questionnaire sent, 1958 December

1952-1960

Washington: Seattle

Documents

Questionnaire sent, 1958 December

1952-1954

1955-1960

Wisconsin

Madison

Documents

Purchase orders

1952-1953

1954

1955-1958

Milwaukee

Documents

Questionnaire sent, 1958 December

1952-1956

1957-1961

Sub-subseries 2: JCET Administrative Subject File.
Scope and Content Note: The Joint Council on Educational Television Files, (boxes 155-176), are arranged in sixteen categories. A list and description of the contents of each category, with appropriate box numbers, is given below. The material in each category is arranged in reverse chronological order.

Ad Hoc Committee: Joint Council on Educational Television
Scope and Content Note: This committee was the immediate forerunner of JCET and the files contain general information on the formation of JCET, especially regarding witnesses' statements and other preparations for the FCC hearings. There is also a file on participation of adult education groups in educational television.

History and Operation
Scope and Content Note: Provides a rather clear history of JCET in its early years. It includes; Reports of JCET materials, miscellaneous publications and materials for distribution, JCET news releases, history and development - Mostly staff accounts of progress and activities.

Documentary Material
Scope and Content Note: Official resolutions to form JCET, clippings of FCC hearings, charts of functional operations of JCET, and the JCET principles of operation files.

Congressional
Scope and Content Note: Reports of hearings made before the FCC. These reports are filed alphabetically under individual congressmen's names.

FCC Documents
Scope and Content Note: Reports of FCC findings and investigations. There are also some news clippings and official FCC hearing transcripts.

Senate: Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce Proceedings before FCC, 1955 November

FCC 3rd Report, 1951 March 21

JCET Brief: Legality of Reservation

Oral Argument on Legality of Reservations

FCC Press Release, 1938 January 26

Official Report of Proceedings Before the FCC, 1950 November-December 6

Official Report of Proceedings Before the FCC, 1950 December 7-1951 January 31

Documents

Brief of Joint Committee on Educational Television
Scope and Content Note: This brief is filed in eight parts. It covers statements in support of educational television and its specific activities and programs. These statements are made by administrators and executives of educational television organizations, on the national and state level, as well as by educators throughout the country. Each statement is filed alphabetically by state, then by city or organization within each state.

State and Regional Activity
Scope and Content Note: News clippings of resolutions regarding educational television made by local and regional civic groups. There is also a memo relating to legislation in various states in 1960 and a summary of state legislation in 1953. This section includes a rather extensive file dealing with hearings and the development of educational television in New York during its early years. Also included are minority and majority reports to the governor and legislature of New York by the Temporary Commission on the Use of Television for Educational Purposes.

Administration and Organization Plans
Scope and Content Note: Articles and by-laws for individual states involved with educational television, information on charters, articles of incorporation, financial plans for educational television stations, and state plans for the operation of educational television stations.

Legal
Scope and Content Note: The 1955 report on the legal status of educational television stations already operating. It also includes memos to participating stations regarding FCC's indefinite extension of reservations of non-commercial channels for educational television use.

Engineering
Scope and Content Note: Includes an engineering handbook of educational television operations, a layout for an educational television studio in a single story building, a glossary of television terms, maps, and geographic guides giving approximate potential coverage on channels reserved for educational television.

Conferences and Seminars, 1958-1962
Scope and Content Note: Individual reports of JCET delegates to constituent member conferences, seminars, and institutes. This section also includes official conference reports and proceedings and the reports of the institutes held at Ohio State University from 1958 to 1962. Each conference is in a separate folder with the names of the organizations in alphabetical order.

Mailing lists
Scope and Content Note: Mailing lists for individuals and organizations that received JCET correspondence and printed material.

Educational and Non-Educational Publications
Scope and Content Note: Correspondence with JCET regarding publication, publication costs, Broadcast news clippings, 1956, copies of the JCET Educational Television Factsheet and Television Digest, and printed material regarding JCET

Status Reports
Scope and Content Note: A file of special subjects relating to JCET and educational television in general. It includes bibliographies, check lists of educational television operations, staff studies, and JCET's report on Two Years of Progress in Educational Television, and material regarding television in public schools.

Articles and Speeches, 1951-1952
Scope and Content Note: All articles and speeches are listed in alphabetical order either by author or title and all deal with educational television in one phase or another.

Budget, 1951-1960
Scope and Content Note: Proposed and accepted budgets for JCET.

Ford Foundation Fund for Adult Education, Fund for Advancement
Scope and Content Note: JCET correspondence, 1953-1960, with the Ford Foundation Fund for Adult Education, Fund for Advancement.

Old Dominion Foundation
Scope and Content Note: Arrangements and financial records for an informal information program entitled, “Freedom Tours.”

Sub-subseries 3: JCET State and City Files, 1951-1963
Scope and Content Note

The State and City Files (boxes 1-94), are arranged alphabetically by states and within each state by cities according to the FCC's geographical allocation plan. The files are arranged in reverse chronological order and include first a general state file, followed by individual city files. Each city file includes topical categories in the following order:

• Correspondence - The correspondence ranges from requests to NET for literature on establishing a local educational television program, to requests and suggestions for aid with specific problems.
• Formal Applications to FCC - These files usually include transcript copies of the original applications, general information regarding facilities, and maps of radio beam spans.
• Reports - Reports include progress reports on the success of educational television, some news clippings, and survey reports on the effectiveness of courses and programs presented as a part of a city's regular educational program.
• Studies - This section includes studies made by boards of education, local educational television personnel, and sometimes by legislators regarding the effectiveness and influence of popular opinion. Sometimes catalogs and brochures of specific studies are included.
• Legislation - This is not a complete file; but does include copies of state and/or city legislation relating to educational television or pleas by interested parties for legislation.
• Meetings or Conferences - This section includes official reports of governors' conferences on education or reports by state and national representatives to various conferences relating to educational television.

In many instances, where a city has limited educational television activity, the above topical categories may not be in separate file folders, but are combined within a single folder with the name of the city as its heading. In every instance the topics are in the order given above, whether in separate folders or in one folder. Many of the city folders do not include all of these topical categories.

Alabama: General - Birmingham

Alabama: Birmingham - Arizona: Phoenix

Arizona: Phoenix - California: General

California: Brochures and Surveys - Cotati

California: Fresno - Los Angeles

California: Sacramento

California: San Bernardino - San Francisco/Oakland

California: San Francisco/Oakland - San Jose

California: San Jose - Stockton

Colorado: General - Denver

Colorado: Pueblo - Connecticut: Hartford

Connecticut: Norwich - Delaware: Wilmington

Delaware: Wilmington - Krieger and Jorgenson

District of Columbia

District of Columbia - Florida: General

Florida: State Reports and Brochures - Jacksonville

Florida: Miami - Orlando

Florida: Panama City - Tampa/St. Petersburg

Florida: West Palm Beach - Georgia: Athens

Georgia: Atlanta - Columbus

Georgia: Columbus - Waycross

Hawaii - Idaho

Illinois: General - Carbondale

Illinois: Champaign/Urbana

Illinois: Chicago

Illinois: Chicago - Springfield

Illinois: Springfield - Indiana: Fort Wayne

Indiana: Gary - Muncie

Indiana: Muncie - Iowa: Ames

Iowa: Ames - Des Moines

Iowa: Des Moines

Iowa: Des Moines - Kansas: General

Kansas: Lawrence - Wichita

Kentucky: General - Somerset

Louisiana: General - New Orleans

Louisiana: New Orleans - Maine: General

Maine: Bangor - Maryland: Baltimore

Maryland: Baltimore - Hagerstown

Massachusetts: General - Boston

Massachusetts: Boston - Michigan: General

Michigan: Alpena - Detroit

Michigan: Detroit - East Lansing

Michigan: East Lansing - Escanaba

Michigan: Flint - Minnesota: Appleton

Minnesota: Duluth - Minneapolis/St. Paul

Minnesota: Minneapolis - Missouri: General

Missouri: Columbia - St. Louis

Missouri: St. Louis - Missoula

Nebraska: General - Lincoln

Nebraska: Lincoln - Nevada: Reno

Tri-State, ETV: Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont - New Hampshire: General

New Hampshire: General - New Jersey: Atlantic City

New Jersey: Camden - Trenton

New Jersey: Trenton - New Mexico

New York: General

New York: General - Buffalo

New York: Corning/Elmira - New York City

New York: New York City (through Telford Taylor)

New York: New York City - Rochester

New York: Rochester - Utica/Rome

North Carolina: General - Chapel Hill

North Carolina: Charlotte - North Dakota: Grand Forks

North Dakota: Fargo - Ohio: Akron

Ohio: Athens - Cleveland

Ohio: Cleveland - Columbus

Ohio: Columbus - Oxford

Ohio: Oxford - Youngstown

Oklahoma: General - Tulsa

Oklahoma: Tulsa - Oregon: Portland

Oregon: Eugene - Portland

Oregon: Salem - Pennsylvania: Erie

Pennsylvania: Harrisburg - Philadelphia

Pennsylvania: Pittsburgh

Pennsylvania: Pittsburgh - University Park

Rhode Island - South Carolina: General

South Carolina: Charleston - South Dakota: General

South Dakota: General - Tennessee: General

Tennessee: Chattanooga - Memphis

Tennessee: Memphis

Tennessee: Nashville - Texas: General

Texas: Austin - Corpus Christi

Texas: Dallas - Denton

Texas: Denton - Houston

Texas: Houston - Lubbock

Texas: San Angelo - Utah: Provo

Utah: Salt Lake City - Vermont: Windsor

Virginia

Washington: General - Spokane

Washington; Tacoma - West Virginia: Clarksburg

West Virginia: Huntington - Wisconsin: La Crosse

Wisconsin: Madison - Marinette

Wisconsin: Milwaukee

Wisconsin: Milwaukee - Puerto Rico: General

Puerto Rico: San Juan - American Samoa

Sub-subseries 4: JCET Publicity Files, 1951-1963
Scope and Content Note

The Publicity Files, (boxes 95-154), are arranged in three categories: Publicity Files by State and City, Publicity Files by Subject Headings, and Publicity Files Relating Specifically to Closed Circuit Television. All of the folders in the three categories are arranged in alphabetical order by states and within each state by cities. The contents of each folder are arranged in reverse chronological order.

Publicity Files by State and City (boxes 95-143) - Consists of news clippings from local newspapers either announcing forthcoming educational television programs, or giving resumés of past programs and legislative action dealing with educational television. There are a few publicity brochures, but most of the material is news clippings.

Publicity Files by Subject Headings (boxes 143-150) - Chiefly consists of news clippings. There are also a few brochures. These files are arranged by special subjects such as foreign, editorials of nationwide newspapers regarding educational television, news clippings from electronics magazines, cartoons, music, sciences and math, and The Voice of America.

Publicity Files Relating Specifically to Closed Circuit Television (boxes 150-154) - Arranged under four separate titles as follows:

Closed Circuit Reports

News clippings and printed matter are arranged by states and include information regarding specific local uses of closed circuit setups for educational purposes.

Closed Circuit Survey, 1955

Reprints of surveys relating to the uses of closed circuit television in various states during 1955. The folders are arranged alphabetically by states.

Closed Circuit News Clippings

News clippings, arranged alphabetically by states, but including only four states.

Closed Circuit General File

Arranged by subject headings, this file appears to contain miscellaneous information regarding closed circuit television. The Iowa City Conference is covered as well as “old files,” 1954-1955.

Publicity Files by State and City

Alabama: Auburn - Birmingham

Alabama: Mobile - Arizona: Phoenix

Arizona: Tucson - California: Fresno

California: Los Angeles - Sacramento

California: San Bernardino - Santa Barbara

California: Stockton - Connecticut: Norwich

Connecticut: Hartford - Delaware: Wilmington

Delaware: Channel 12 - District of Columbia: Publicity

District of Columbia: Publicity - Florida: Gainesville

Florida: Jacksonville - Tallahassee

Florida: Tallahassee - West Palm Beach

Georgia - Hawaii

Idaho - Illinois: DeKalb

Illinois: Peoria - Indiana: South Bend

Indiana: Terre Haute - Kansas: Topeka

Kansas: Wichita - Louisiana

Maine: State Publicity - Presque Isle

Maine: Portland - Maryland: Johns Hopkins University

Maryland: Hagerstown - Massachusetts: Boston

Massachusetts: Boston - Michigan: Detroit

Michigan: East Lansing - Minnesota: Duluth

Minnesota: Minneapolis/St. Paul - Missouri: St. Joseph

Missouri: St. Louis - Nebraska: Lincoln

Nebraska: Omaha - New Hampshire

New Jersey

New Mexico - New York: Albany

New York: Albany, Schenectady, Troy - Buffalo

New York: Buffalo - Hempstead

New York: Ithaca - New York City

New York: New York City

New York: New York City

New York: Syracuse - North Carolina: State Publicity

North Carolina: Asheville - Winston-Salem

North Dakota - Ohio: Cincinnati

Ohio: Cleveland - Oxford

Ohio: Toledo - Oregon: Corvallis

Oregon: Eugene - Pennsylvania: Harrisburg

Pennsylvania: Philadelphia - Pittsburgh

Pennsylvania: Pittsburgh - Puerto Rico

Rhode Island - South Carolina: Columbia

South Carolina: Columbia - Tennessee: Lexington

Tennessee: Memphis - Texas: Corpus Christi

Texas: Dallas - San Angelo

Texas: San Antonio - Utah

Vermont - Virginia: Norfolk, Portsmouth, Newport News

Virginia: Richmond - Roanoke

Washington

West Virginia - Wisconsin: Milwaukee

Wisconsin: Racine - Z

Publicity Files by Subject Headings

A - Awards

Book Reviews - Cost Per Child Estimate

Crank File - Fund for Advancement of Education

District of Columbia, GWETA - Industry Support

JCET Personnel - Music

Networks - Russa: Cultural Activities

Russian via TV - Voice of America

Workshops, TV Training

Publicity Files Relating Specifically to Closed Circuit Television

CC Reports

Arkansas - California

Idaho, Indiana, Illinois - JCET

CC Survey

Alabama, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas

CC News Clips: Pennsylvania

CC Correspondence of 1957: Old Files, 1954-1955

Sub-subseries 5: JCEB Administrative Subject File.
Scope and Content Note: The Joint Council on Educational Broadcasting Files (boxes 177-182) are arranged in three categories. A list and description of the contents of each category, with appropriate box numbers, is listed below. The material in each category is arranged in reverse chronological order.

JCEB Constituent Members
Scope and Content Note: Listed in alphabetical order, each member file has the following subject files arranged in the following order: correspondence, publications of the individual organizations, surveys, comments, and publicity.

American Council on Education - Council of Chief State School Offices (CCSSO)

Joint Council of Educational TV - National Education Association: Conferences on National Policy for ETV

National Education Association: NEA Publications - National Association of Educational Broadcasters: NAEB Utilization Reports

National Association of Educational Broadcasters: Report on Digital Computer in UHF - Constitution

National Association of Educational Broadcasters: Membership - National Association of Broadcasters

Mailing Lists -, 1961

Summary of ETV in Separate States, D.C. and Puerto Rico
Scope and Content Note: Official reports, organized alphabetically by states, of educational television standing and operational progress.

Printed Materials from N.E.T. files

Sub-subseries 6: Miscellaneous Files
Scope and Content Note: The Miscellaneous Files (boxes 183-184), are arranged in two main categories. A list of the contents of each category is listed below. The material in each category is arranged in reverse chronological order. This series should be considered as a special file series that is an extension of JCET activities.

Commercial Television

ABC

CBS - Correspondence, 1955-1963

NBC - Correspondence, 1956-1963

American Government, 1961

Chemistry college course for credit

Math

Atomic physics college course for credit

Industrial Television

Electronic Industries Association

General Electric

General Precision Laboratories

RCA

Zenith Radio Corporation

Miscellaneous - industrial correspondence

Public Meeting of the Temporary New York State Commission on the Use of Television for Educational Purposes, 1953 January 14

Third Public Hearing of the Temporary New York State Commission on the Use of Television for Educational Purposes, 1953 January 21