Lura Sanborn – Reference Librarian
On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio by John Dunning, Oxford U. Press, 1998.
Find it in Ohrstrom at: REF 791.44 D920
Over 1,500 entries focus on radio programs and personalities from American radio during the 1920’s – 1960’s.
Examples include: A&P Gypsies, The Bing Crosby Show, Earplay and This is Your Life.
Click HERE to listen to some new-time radio on the SPS radio station: WSPS, 90.5 FM.
Helpful for: Humanities IV, Music, Radio Enthusiasts, WSPS
Photo credit:
French, Herbert E. Atwater Kent, Standing By Radio, and Seven Other People
Listening to the Radio. Between 1920 and 1930. Prints and Photographs Div.,
Lib. of Congress, Washington, D.C. America’s Library. Web. 11 Aug. 2009.
<http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/jazz/jb_jazz_radio_3_e.html>.
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