WRVA Radio Collection, 1925-2000.

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WRVA Radio Collection, 1925-2000.

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The WRVA Radio Collection spans seventy-five years and contains applause letters, minutes, anniversary booklets, program scripts, program guides, newsletters, histories, interviews, employee questionnaires, sales manuals, audience and sales promotions, rate cards, listener surveys, posters, newspaper clippings, FCC applications and reports, drawings, photographs, and sound recordings. This material documents the history of WRVA, the role the station played in Virginia and Richmond for over half-a-century, and the development of radio in Virginia and the United States. The collection is also rich in material on the Larus & Brother Company, including histories, anniversary booklets, photographs of officials, employees, and factories, and promotions. The sound recordings date from the 1930's to the 1990's and contain news broadcasts of significant local, state, national, and world events and personalities, programs of a local and regional interest, including the Capitol Squirrel, Calling All Cooks, the Radio Scholarship Quiz, and the Quiz of Two Cities, and musical programs, such as the Corn Cob Pipe Club, the Old Dominion Barn Dance, the Sunshine Hour, and the Silver Star Quartet. Selected sound recordings are now available for use on CD. Each CD has been cataloged individually. Search The Library of Virginia Archives and Manuscripts Catalog to find WRVA sound recordings of interest.

ca. 35 cu. ft.

Library of Virginia

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SNAC Resource ID: 7884481

Library of Virginia

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WRVA (Radio Station : Richmond, Va.)

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WRVA was officially dedicated on 2 November 1925. Owned and operated by Larus & Brother Company, manufacturers of Edgeworth Smoking Tobacco and other tobacco products, the station initially operated as a community station without commercial revenue and broadcast only two evenings a week. The Corn Cob Pipe Club was one of the many regular programs begun in 1925. It proved so popular with listeners throughout the United States and Canada that by July 1935, almost nine hundred club...

Larus & Brother Company, Inc. (Richmond, Va.)

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Sunshine Sue and Her Rangers (Musical group)

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Tansey, John B., 1916-2001.

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Bishop, Walter R. 1903-1963.

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Hewlett, Bertha E., 1903-1997.

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Silver Star Quartet (Musical group)

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Dean, Lou, 1935-

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Millard the Mallard.

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Larus Investing Company (Richmond, Va.)

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Wilkinson, Holland Reid 1893-

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Richmond Television Corporation (Richmond, Va.)

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Lucy, Calvin T. (Calvin Tompkins), 1891-1980

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Born in Baltimore, MD, on 8 October 1891, Calvin T. Lucy was educated at Baltimore City College (a public high school for boys) and graduated in 1909. While taking night school classes at BCC in commercial subjects, Lucy also worked at Crown Cork and Seal (1909-1912) in Baltimore. In 1912 he took a job with Reed Tobacco Company (a subsidiary of Larus and Co.) as office manager and bookkeeper. Promoted in 1918 to general office manager for Larus, Lucy left this position to serve in the army durin...

Aaroe, Alden (Alden Peterson), 1918-1993

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Workman, Mary Higdon, 1911-1979.

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WRVA (Television station : Richmond, Va.)

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