Includes a 1939 program for the WVVA Jamboree and a Doc Williams Border Riders family album, ca. 1935-1945. Additional collections, listed separately under "publications" in the online catalog include a WWVA 1936 Flood Souvenir program, a WHIS Freedom for All broadcast in conjunction with a 1950 Bluefield Coal Show, a 1948 WMMN family album program, a 1951 WWVA 25th Anniversary booklet and a WPAR radio bulletin for the Farm Chat Program, 1936.
Repository/Collector:
The Cultural Center, Capitol Complex, West Virginia Division of Culture and History
Fifteen reels of audio tape containing radio commercials, programs for Won's Frozen Chinese Foods and Schlitz beer, the radio show Ford Startime and some unidentified radio programs.
Repository/Collector:
John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising and Marketing History
Principal collection consists of over 200 recordings of Yiddish music, comedy, soap operas, news, commercials, poetry and drama spanning the years 1936-1955. The majority represent programming from New York based stations, including WEVD, WBBS, WHN and WMCA (all cataloged). Represented in these recordings are the Barry Sisters, Jan Bart, Moishe Oysher, Nahum Stutchkoff and Dave Tarras. Collection also includes recordings of radio material up to the present day, including programs featuring Molly Picon, and a collection of over 900 WEVD programs spanning the 1970s-1980s.
Repository/Collector:
Max and Frieda Weinstein Archive of YIVO Sound Recordings, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research