Guide to the Leo Fitzpatrick scrapbook (ARA) PA Mss 257
Original collection processing and arrangement by Thousand Oaks Public Library Staff. Electronic finding and additional processing
and description by Jacob Robin, 2023. Latest revision 2023 May 24.
University of California, Santa Barbara
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2023 May 24
Title: Leo Fitzpatrick scrapbook (ARA)
Identifier/Call Number: PA Mss 257
Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
UC Santa Barbara Library, Department of Special Research Collections
Physical Description:
.5 Linear Feet;
(1 box: 1 scrapbook)
Creator:
Fitzpatrick, Leo J. (1894-1971)
Date (inclusive): 1930s-1940s
Abstract: The Leo Fitzpatrick scrapbook of the American Radio Archives conststs of 1 scrapbook ranging from the 1930s-1940s pertaining
to his career as a jouranlist for the
Wichita Eagle and radio program/general manager for WDAF and WJR.
Physical Location: Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library.
The Leo Fitzpatrick scrapbook contains newspaper clippings, publications, correspondence, hand-written notes and musical scores
pertaining to his career as a jouranlist for the
Wichita Eagle and radio program/general manager for WDAF and WJR.
The collection is open for research.
This collection forms part of the American Radio Archives (ARA), which documents the early history of broadcasting, with an
emphasis on California. The ARA was formerly housed at the Thousand Oaks Public Library and was owned and administered by
the Thousand Oaks Library Foundation. It was transferred to the UCSB Library in 2021.
The materials in this collection are arranged into one scrapbook.
Leo J. Fitzpatrick (1894-1971) was a newspaper writter from Wichita, Kansas who became a figure in radio broadcasting. He
attended the University of Kansas and in 1916 began his early career as a reporter for the Wichita newspaper. He has been
credited on writting some of the earliest articles on the "new phenomenon of radio" fot
The Kansas City Star in 1921 and then was put in charge of the WDAF radio station when founded in 1923. In 1925 he became the general manager
and part owner of WJR in Detroit until 1946. During World War II he was a consultant to the Office of War Information and
after the war he was the director of radio facilities in Japan and Korea under Douglas MacArtur. He died in Grosse Pointe
Shores, Michigan in 1971.
[Identification of Item], Leo Fitzpatrick scrapbook, PA Mss 257. Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara
Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Forms part of the American Radio Archives (ARA).
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