Search Results
- IDNO:
- 048634
- Title:
- Singing Mill Men, Stay In's of "It's Wheeling Steel" Radio Broadcast, Wheeling, W. Va.
- Date:
- Undated
- Description:
- Two of the mill men share coffee, still in their work clothes, after receiving a call to come from the mill to the main office for rehearsal right away. They were preparing to go to Chicago for a war bond program. See original photograph for further description.
- IDNO:
- 048636
- Title:
- Waiting in Line to Audition For "It's Wheeling Steel" Radio Program
- Date:
- Undated
- IDNO:
- 048654
- Title:
- "It's Wheeling Steel" Performers Molly Staten and Eleanor Bowman Lynn Rehearsing
- Date:
- Undated
- Description:
- Caption on back of photograph reads: "Molly Staten and Eleanor Bowman Lynn rehearsed several weeks on their piano duet. They are stenographers from the main office of Wheeling Steel Company." Like all performers and employees on the "It's Wheeling Steel" broadcast, all were also employees or family members of the Wheeling Steel Corporation. They were radio's first all employee only broadcast.
- IDNO:
- 048656
- Title:
- Nicky Conti Playing Accordion With Wheeling Musical Steelmakers
- Date:
- Undated
- IDNO:
- 048658
- Title:
- Bill Griffiths of Singing Millmen, Making Miniature Military Equipment
- Date:
- Undated
- Description:
- Caption on back of photograph reads: "Bill Griffiths makes military equipment during working hours, relaxes in his spare time by duplicating his day's work in miniature. he built the model guns and tanks shown here, and the train that carries them. On Sundays, he's one of the famed "Singing Millmen"." The Singing Millmen were regulars on the "It's Wheeling Steel" radio broadcast.
- IDNO:
- 048660
- Title:
- Several People Waiting to Audition for 'It's Wheeling Steel' Broadcast
- Date:
- Undated
- Description:
- Caption on back of photograph reads: "For headlining appearances, auditions for mill workers and members of their immediate families are held every few weeks at the studios of WWVA. Of course, due to the standard set for our program, all that are auditioned can not be presented. The standard set is inferred to be that of the broadcasting station's, thereby relieving the corporation of discrimination."
- IDNO:
- 048661
- Title:
- Audience Watching the 'It's Wheeling Steel' Performance
- Date:
- Undated
- IDNO:
- 048663
- Title:
- Group of Musicians Auditioning for 'It's Wheeling Steel' Program
- Date:
- Undated
- Description:
- Everyone pictured is either an employee of the Wheeling Steel Corporation or is an immediate family member of someone who works for them. This family owned and operated broadcast was the first of it's kind and this policy was maintained throughout the broadcast's existence.
- IDNO:
- 048664
- Title:
- 'It's Wheeling Steel' Show at Market Auditorium, Wheeling, W. Va.
- Date:
- Undated
- IDNO:
- 048665
- Title:
- William Griffiths, Second Tenor of the Millmen Quartette Works on the Flying Shears, Yorkville, W. Va.
- Date:
- Undated
- Description:
- The Millmen Quartette were a barbershop quartette that performed regularly on the "It's Wheeling Steel" radio broadcast from 1936 to 1943.
- IDNO:
- 048666
- Title:
- William Griffiths, Second Tenor of the Millmen Quartette on Stage Behind Microphone, Yorkville, W. Va.
- Date:
- Undated
- Description:
- The Millmen Quartette were a barbershop quartette that performed regularly on the "It's Wheeling Steel" radio broadcast from 1936 to 1943.
- IDNO:
- 048667
- Title:
- Proud Mother and Father With Margaret Cook After 'It's Wheeling Steel' Broadcast
- Date:
- Undated
- Description:
- Margaret Cook was a performer on the "It's Wheeling Steel" radio broadcast. Her father, was an electrician at the Steubenville Works.
