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Scope and content: Posters featuring photographs of ABC Network radio personalities, ca. 1930-1960, advertising programs and broadcast times on Nashville, Tenn. radio station WSIX. WSIX printed these from glossies provided by the network, adding the program title and local broadcast time to each poster. Posters like this were often framed and hung in radio station lobbies so that visitors could see the network stars they normally only heard. Some...
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Scope and content: Oral history interview with Nashville business and civic leader E.W. "Bud" Wendell, conducted 22 June 2007 by Cabot Pyle as part of The Turner Interviews series of the Nashville Public Library's Nashville Business Leaders Oral History Project. During the two hour interview, Wendell discusses such topics as his early career as a Shield Man with National Life and Accident Life Insurance and how the Grand Ole Opry was a promotional...
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Scope and content: Newsclippings, spanning dates from 1918-1941, sometimes including entire pages or nearly complete issues, from the Nashville Banner and Tennesseean newspapers. Early papers sometimes feature photogravure sections. A few clippings relate to members of the Andrews family, especially the three sons of James and Lula Andrews, and a few articles document James D. Andrews's interest in local aviation matters.
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Scope and content: Radio scripts for the "Ham and Eg" (sometimes spelled Egg) show; the "Ape and Ex" show (sponsored by Apex Oil Co.) and one script entitled "The Malones Never Quit." The first two programs are comedies with characters intended to be African-American, who speak in a caricature of black dialect. The third program is a drama about a district attorney who fights gangsters, his father who is a railroad engineer, and the son's love interest....
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