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Command Performance in the Internet Archive's Old-Time Radio Collection; Command Performance 1942-03-01 to 1949-10-18 (OTR.NETwork Library) Pentagon Channel: Command Performance; New York Public Library: AFRS collection; Library of Congress essay on episode added to the National Recording Registry.
American Radio Archives and Museum offers one of the largest collections of radio broadcasting in the United States and in the world. [12] It has a collection of 23,000 radio and TV scripts, 10,000 photographs, 10,000 books on radio history, and 5,000 audio recordings.
Radio broadcast premiere: Kate Smith: November 11, 1938: The John and Ruby Lomax Southern States Recording Trip John and Ruby Lomax 1939 "Strange Fruit" Billie Holiday: 1939 Grand Ole Opry First network radio broadcast: Uncle Dave Macon, Roy Acuff, and others October 14, 1939: Béla Bartók and Joseph Szigeti in Concert at the Library of Congress
National Recording Registry (Library of Congress) Audie Award for Autobiography or Memoir Richard Isadore Durham (September 6, 1917 – April 27, 1984) was an African-American writer and radio producer.
But in 1851 another fire erupted and burnt most of the library's contents, including a major part of Jefferson’s books. Stunning architecture of the interior of the Library of Congress during ...
As of April 2020, the collection includes nearly 113,000 digitized items preserved on-site at the Library of Congress, and 53,000 items in the collection are streaming online in the AAPB Online Reading Room. [2] Funders include the CPB, the Council on Library and Information Resources, and Institute of Museum and Library Services. [3]
On September 21, 1939, radio station WJSV in Washington, D.C. made an audio recording of its entire 19-hour broadcast day. This undertaking was a collaboration between the station and the National Archives, and it was the first time that such a comprehensive recording of a radio broadcast had been made.
The Golden Age of Radio, also known as the old-time radio (OTR) era, was an era of radio in the United States where it was the dominant electronic home entertainment medium. It began with the birth of commercial radio broadcasting in the early 1920s and lasted through the 1950s, when television gradually superseded radio as the medium of choice ...