Established in the year 2000, the WNYC Archives are the station's physical link to its rich and storied past.
MoreA photo of a WNYC poster (partial), circa 1940. The original poster was 30" x 44". (NYC Municipal Archives Collection)
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1924: Colonel James Churchward (1851-1936) talks about the "New Geology." Churchward was a British-born writer. In 1926, he published The Lost Continent of Mu: Motherland of Man, in which he argued for the existence of a lost continent in the Pacific Ocean.
1944: Mayor F.H. La Guardia's weekly Talk to the People. Along with updates on rationing, the Mayor plugs a new WNYC program: "Tomorrow evening, November 20…Dr. Frank J. O'Brien's Division of Child Welfare of the Board of Education will give another play in a series of weekly broadcasts over our station. They are very, very interesting…"
1956: Conductor Eric Leinsdorf interviews choreographer Agnes De Mille on City Center Interview.
1962: National Urban League Award Dinner honors A. Philip Randolph and Tom Watson, with speeches by Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson and Whitney Young.
1970: Host Ruth Bowman talks with artist Leon Polk Smith on Views on Art.
1982: Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Elliot Carter is interviewed on Around New York.
1999: New Sounds Live, from The Arts At St. Ann's in Brooklyn Heights. A special event with Anonymous 4, performing the world premiere of Richard Einhorn's Carnival of Miracles and Steve Reich's Know What Is Above You, both commissioned by WNYC for this renowned early music vocal quartet.
2000: Arlo Guthrie talks about his 18 minutes and 20 seconds of fame (Alice's Restaurant) on The Next Big Thing.
Growing up in New Jersey, Archivist Andy Lanset was probably the only 8-year-old who spent all of his paper route money on records and wind-up phonographs at the flea market and then cataloged them all in a 3x5 card file. Since then, he has gone on to amass an archive of his own as well as to collect, organize, and preserve thousands of recordings, photographs, and station-related ephemera for the WNYC and WQXR archive collections.
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History Notes: Volume 1, Issue 3
Everything About WNYC's Past
1970: Host Ruth Bowman talks with artist Leon Polk Smith on Views on Art.
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