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- Description:
- A color slide of one of WJIM's vehicles, a white Scout with the number 4 on it. On the door is "Radio WJIM," "News," and "WJIM-TV."
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- The Birt Darling Collection includes mainly what appear to be research notes for various historical articles he was working on. Subjects represented include family history (Kedzie, Seymour, Shaull), aviation (Ivan Driggs), properties (Burcham), regional history (Charlotte), archaeology, and correspondence on miscellaneous topics. There is also a typed manuscript entitled "An Account of the Capture of J. Wilkes Booth, the Assassin of Abraham Lincoln, written by Lieutenant L. C. Baker who had charge of the party which made the capture." (penciled in "should read Luther Byron Baker"), and a radio script from 1946 entitled "North Lansing Against the World." Birt Darling was a freelance writer and an editor for the Lansing State Journal for about 40 years, authored "City in the Forest", and was a leader in archaeology initiatives in Michigan.
- Date Created:
- [1927 TO 1965]
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Birt Darling Collection
- Description:
- A color slide of four WJIM TV channel 6 vehicles and unidentified staff. The call letters changed to WLNS in 1984.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- Small orchestra and their director in a hotel ballroom, with three women sitting in front .
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Small orchestra, along with one man behind a Wood Radio microphone, and two women seated in front of the musicians. Recording in a hotel ballroom.
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Five people in front of as WOOD Radio microphone. They include a police officer, Elmer Brackett, a nurse, another man in uniform, two young people in their teens (the girl wears a badge on her sleeve saying "Junior Nurse").
- Date Created:
- 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Men and women, including one African American woman, pictured. One is presenting a large "key" with the words "Grand Rapids greets Majoy Bowes' amatuers." The calemdar in the background shows December, 1935, January and February, 1936.
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Radio station WOOD originated a popular feature called Sambo and Abie. The two radio actors are pictured in the studio, seated by a table, with a tall radio microphone standing between them behind the table. “Abie” is dressed in a suit and tie and wears a dark too-large fedora that comes down over his ears. “Sambo” is in black face, with dark gloves, and is wearing a doorman's uniform and cap. Behind the men is a door with a glass panel that reads “219, Radio Station WOOD.” Article and photo in the Grand Rapids Herald, 3/9/1930, p.14.
- Date Created:
- 1930-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Five people in front of as WOOD Radio microphone, all of them saluting. They include a police officer, Elmer Brackett, a nurse, another man in uniform, two young people in their teens (the girl wears a badge on her sleeve saying "Junior Nurse").
- Date Created:
- 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Hugh Hart, known as “Uncle Jerry” entertaining the kiddies over Wash. Taken when the studio was in Baxter’s Laundry. December 19, 1929. The subject is a dark-haired, smiling man of about 40 years seated at a table on which stands a large microphone that resembles the old-fashioned rotary dial of a telephone. The man is wearing a checkered suit jacket with matching vest, white shirt, and a striped necktie. There are some control knobs inset into the table near his right elbow, which is leaning on the table. In his left hand he holds some papers.
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
