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8 issues Prairie Farmer WLS 1932-1949

$ 14.78

Availability: 100 in stock

Description

8 WLS Prairie Farmer Family Albums, each around 50 pages. Years are 1932, 1934, 1935, 1941, 1944, 1945, 1948, 1949.  Black and white photos of musicians, orchestra, engineers, staff.  Photos include:
1-group
2-1932 & 1934 covers
3-1932 pages 12 & 13, the Arkansas Woodchopper & The Cumberland Ridge Runners
4-1932 pages 18 & 19, part of station index by call letters & kilocycles
5-1934 showing brown spot on glassine inside cover, bleeds through to page 3, not there in remaining pages
6-1934 pages 6 & 7
7-1935 page 16, news service
10-1941 p. 25, orchestra
11-1949 p. 28 engineers
12-4 publicity stills, including Cary Grant.  These were slipped into the copies.
Condition is generally good.  Centerfold of 1934 is loose from the staples; shows 2 photos of WLS at the Chicago World's Fair.  Spines in good shape except for 1945, which is torn at the top fold down to the first staple with no paper missing.  Will be shipped by USPS Retail Ground, in 14" long box weighing over 4 1/2 pounds.