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Directed by archivist Andy Lanset, the department provides a central repository for thousands of audio recordings, photographs, memorabilia, reports, news items, program guides, institutional records, and promotional materials.
Among its holdings are more than 50,000 recordings in a variety of formats, from early lacquer and acetate discs, to reel-to-reel tapes, to digital audio tapes and compact discs.
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Operation Santa Claus, 1948
Saturday, December 18, 2010
On Christmas Eve 1948, three lucky children flew to Montreal, where they met Santa Claus and escorted him back to New York to deliver presents to the City's children.
Malcolm X on WNYC
Friday, December 17, 2010
Malcolm X in front of the Teresa Hotel in Harlem when he was still a spokesperson for the Nation of Islam.
Madison Square Christmas Tree Lighting, 1942
Sunday, December 12, 2010
In December 1942, just three years after the tree lighting spectacular at City Hall when one of Mayor La Guardia's children flipped a switch and instantly lit up 22 trees throughout the boroughs, strict wartime dimout regulations dictated how people in New York, New Jersey and Delaware celebrated the holiday season.
Radio Fad: Collecting Verified Reception Stamps
Friday, December 10, 2010
Hobby Helps Determine Signal Reach
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus
Wednesday, December 08, 2010
In September 1897, Francis Pharcellus Church, a former Civil War correspondent and editor at the New York Sun, received a letter from the then 8-year-old Virginia O’Hanlon.
Jules Feiffer Celebrates WNYC
Friday, December 03, 2010
Cartoonist Graces Cover of Program Guide
City Hall Christmas Tree Lighting, 1939
Thursday, December 02, 2010
On the occasion of the annual lighting of the Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center, we present to you the first of two vintage radio broadcasts we've found in the archives of similar ceremonies in the city.
Music History On the Air in 1936
Friday, November 26, 2010
Brooklyn College Sponsors Music Series
What keeps audio archivists up at night?
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Senior Archivist Marcos Sueiro Bal recently attended the annual conference of IASA, the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives, in Philadelphia. He reports on some of the highlight presentations (besides being enveloped by the sounds of the world’s largest pipe organ).
Eisenhower Salutes!
Friday, November 19, 2010
WNYC's block-by-block coverage of General Eisenhower's triumphant return to the US in 1945.
Once Upon a Time Press Badges Were Buttons
Friday, November 12, 2010
Credentials in a Simpler Time
The Whimsy of Artist Leo Garel Fills the WNYC Masterwork Bulletin.
Friday, November 05, 2010
Check Out the Slide Show!
Ed Koch's Press Conference, on His 65th Birthday
Tuesday, December 12, 1989
Presentation of a new report on how science and technology can help city operations. The mayor condemns Britain's shipping of Vietnam refugees back to Vietnam. He comments on aging (he turns 65 but he feels young, which he attributes to loving his job), and lists his plans for birthday and ...
Ed Koch's Cold Remedy
Thursday, January 29, 1987
Mayor Koch's "much better than doctors" recipe for a surefire cold remedy, the infamous Guggle Muggle. Delicious, "medically superb" and with a mysterious origin, it was passed on from mother to mother through generations untold. Don't forget the right dosage --if you can handle it.
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Footloose in Greenwich Village in 1960
Houdini's Brother Keeps His Secrets in 1939
A Rare Interview with Malcolm X
Patricia Marx interviews Lorraine Hansberry in 1961
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