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Fiorani Radio Productions records
Angelo Fiorani was born in Tarquinia, Italy and came to America ca. 1905. Rose Florey Fiorani was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania in 1902. Beginning in 1933, the Fioranis worked as "time brokers" for radio programming targeting Italian Americans and broadcast Italian programs on Scranton-...
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| Collection: | Fiorani Radio Productions Records |
| Collection Number: | MSS049 |
| Format: | Manuscript |
| Language: | Italian |
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| Online Access: | Link to finding aid |
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| 520 | |a Angelo Fiorani was born in Tarquinia, Italy and came to America ca. 1905. Rose Florey Fiorani was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania in 1902. Beginning in 1933, the Fioranis worked as "time brokers" for radio programming targeting Italian Americans and broadcast Italian programs on Scranton-area radio stations, eventually owning and operating their own station, WPTS. The collection documents the Fioranis' forty-two years in broadcasting. It contains personal and business correspondence, advertisements and advertising account files, program schedules and scripts, financial records, uncatalogued photographs, fan mail, and souvenir programs of special events. The collection includes unprocessed additions. In English and Italian. Register available. | ||
| 540 | 1 | |a Restrictions. | |
| 541 | 1 | |a Gift of Rose Fiorani and Rosemary Gallagher.; Documentation of owner unclear | |
| 555 | |a Finding Aid Available Online: | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a Ethnic radio broadcasting--Pennsylvania. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Italian Americans--Pennsylvania--Anthracite region. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Radio advertising--Pennsylvania. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Scranton Civic Opera Guild (Scranton, Pa.). | |
| 852 | |a The Historical Society of Pennsylvania |b Fiorani Radio Productions Records |c MSS049 | ||
| 856 | 4 | 2 | |y Link to finding aid |u https://hsp.org/sites/default/files/finding%20aid%20mss049%20fiorani.pdf |