Records of radio station WRVA, Richmond, Va. [manuscript] 1925-1963.

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Records of radio station WRVA, Richmond, Va. [manuscript] 1925-1963.

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Daily files, 1942,1946-1948, 1954-1963; economic and technical growth files, 1939-1961; advertising files, 1939-1961; financial records, 1936-1940; miscellaneous files, 1933-1962, and other records, concerning the anniversaries and observances, advertising, history of the station, ratings and coverage, network regulations, and programming. Includes material on Larus and Brother Company, owner of the station, Walter R. Bishop, public relations manager, and Calvin T. Lucy, station manager, and recordings of historical tape recordings and phonorecords.

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University of Virginia. Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7926945

University of Virginia. Library

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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...

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...

Bishop, Walter R., d. 1963.

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Larus and Brothers.

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