WSB Radio Records, 1922-1985.

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WSB Radio Records, 1922-1985.

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The records contain correspondence, memos, scrapbooks, log books, contracts, licenses, publicity materials, photographs, sound recordings, moving image recordings, and artifacts relating to the early history of WSB Radio, to WSB performers, programs, awards, and sponsored events (such as news workshops and career conferences for students), and to WSB-FM and WSB-TV. The sound recordings in the collection include examples of musical, dramatic and general interest programming from ca. 1944 through ca. 1984; news programming; and political speeches from 1946 and 1948, generated by the heated gubernatorial and congressional races of those years. The political speeches include campaign addresses by Eugene Talmadge, Herman Talmadge, James Carmichael, E.D. Rivers, Helen Douglas Mankin, James C. Davis, Ellis Arnall, M.E. Thompson and others.

Textual records: 75 linear feet.Sound recordings: over 54,000.Photographs: 10 linear feet.

Georgia State University

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SNAC Resource ID: 7295640

Georgia State University

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Talmadge, Eugene, 1884-1946

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Born in Forsyth, Georgia; educated at the University of Georgia; practicing lawyer in Atlanta, Montgomery County, and Telfair County, Georgia; Georgia Commissioner of Agriculture, 1927-1933; served three terms as Governor of Georgia; died as governor-elect in 1946. From the description of Pamphlets, 1942. (University of Southern Mississippi, Regional Campus). WorldCat record id: 17429974 ...

Mankin, Helen Douglas, 1896-1956

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Helen Douglas Mankin (September 11, 1896 – July 25, 1956) was an American lawyer and politician. She was the second woman to represent Georgia in the United States House of Representatives, serving from February 1946 to January 1947. Born Helen Douglas in Atlanta, she attended public and private schools there before attending Rockford College in Rockford, Illinois, where she graduated with an A.B. in 1917. After serving as a civilian ambulasnce driver in a Red Cross unit attached to the Frenc...

Camp, James C. 1895-

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Talmadge, Herman E. (Herman Eugene), 1913-2002

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Herman E. Talmadge (1913- ), Georgia Governor (1947-1955) and U.S. Senator (1956-1980), born near McRae, Georgia. From the description of Herman E. Talmadge senatorial papers, 1945-1987. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38477028 Herman E. Talmadge (1913- ), Georgia Governor (1947-1955) and United States Senator (1956-1980) born near McRae, Georgia. T. Rogers Wade served as administrative assistant, fund raiser, and chairman of the 1980 U.S. senatorial campaign for Senator Talm...

Arnall, Ellis Gibbs, 1907-1992

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Ellis Gibbs Arnall (1907- ), Georgia Governor (1943-1947). From the description of Ellis Gibbs Arnall oral history interview, 1971 July 24 and September 16. (Georgia State University). WorldCat record id: 38726976 From the description of Ellis Gibbs Arnall oral history interview, 1976 July 6. (Georgia State University). WorldCat record id: 38476301 From the description of Ellis Gibbs Arnall oral history interview, 1977 July 27. (Georgia State University). WorldCat r...

Thompson, M. E.

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WSB (Radio station : Atlanta, Ga.)

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WSB (Welcome South, Brother) Radio, the first radio station in the south, began broadcasting on March 15, 1922. From the description of WSB Radio Broadcasting Script, 1939. (Georgia Institute of Technology). WorldCat record id: 50144464 WSB Radio was the first radio station to broadcast from the city of Atlanta, with its first broadcast on March 15, 1922. The station was originally owned and operated by the Atlanta journal newspaper. Both the Atlanta journal and WSB were pur...

Carmichael, James Vinson, 1910-1972

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James Vinson Carmichael, attorney and business executive, was born October 2, 1910, in Cobb County, Georgia, and died November 28, 1972, in Marietta, Georgia. He attended Emory University (LL. B. 1933), married Frances E. McDonald (1938), and practiced law in Marietta, Georgia (1933-1943; 1946). He was associated with Bell Aircraft Corporation (1943-1945) as general counsel, assistant general manager-vice president, and director; with Scripto, Inc. (Atlanta, Georgia) as president (1947-1964); an...

Rivers, Eurith Dickinson, 1895-1967

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Ellis, Elmo Israel

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Elmo Israel Ellis (1918-2005), author, retired executive and broadcast journalist, was born on November 11, 1918 in Birmingham, Alabama to Samuel B. and Bertha F. Seletz Israel. He graduated from the University of Alabama with a degree in journalism and then obtained his master degree in journalism from Emory University. He began his career in radio as director of public relations at WSB in Atlanta in 1940. During World War II, he joined the United States Air Force where he worked as a writer an...