Child Wearing Wheeling, W. Va. Hat at National Cornhusking Championship in Marshall, MO
- Identifier:
- 048501
- Collection Number:
- A&M 3470
- Title:
- Child Wearing Wheeling, W. Va. Hat at National Cornhusking Championship in Marshall, MO
- Date:
- 1937
- Description:
- Wheeling Steel Corporation brought performers and company products to this event to help promote their "It's Wheeling Steel" radio broadcast to a broader audience, as well as to show off their farming equipment. This broadcast was ran and operated by company employees and family members, the first of its kind to utilize this model. It was used to promote both the company product and it's employees.
- Corporate Names:
- Its Wheeling Steel (Radio program), Wheeling Steel Corporation.
- Acquisition Source:
- Wheeling-Pittsburgh Corporation. Stoll, Richard E.
- Acquisition Method:
- Gift
- Medium:
- print
- Projects:
- West Virginia History OnView