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Photos

These photos are in the American Memory collection, America from the Great Depression to World War II:  Photographs from the FSA/OWI, 1935-1945 . Click on the small image to see a larger one.

Childersburg, AL. Cousa Court defense housing project. The Smiths follow the news over their radio.

Blue Island, IL. Home from work, Mr. Senise tunes on the radio for news while waiting for dinner.

Adams County, ND. North Dakota stock farmer, George P. Moeller, listening to war news on the radio.

Schenectady, NY. Sixth grade group at the Elmer Avenue Elementary School. The radio is used to keep the class up to the minute with the news.

Schenectady, NY. Sixth graders at the Elmer Avenue Elementary School bringing a war map up to date. This map is changed daily. News is gotten from the morning papers and the radio in the classroom.

George Breckenbridge, left, forestry student, from Chicago, IL. Michael Deane (at radio), general agriculture, from Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Gene Bopp, poultry husbandry from Fergus Fall, MN, listening to latest news reports in the lounge of the men's dormitory. Iowa State College, Ames, IA.
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Lititz, PA. Elam Habecker arrives at his office at 7:15 a.m. to read news and listens to news on the radio. He follows news with particular interest because he has one son, a Lieutenant Commander, who was at Pearl Harbor, and a daughter, a nurse in the Jefferson unit, now in Egypt. Superintendent of water works Walter Miller arrives and hangs his hat on the rack which belonged to General Sutter. Habecker collects antiques, clerks at all sales.

Lititz, PA. Elam Habecker, real estate man and Secretary of Lititz borough for the past nine years, arrives at his office at 7:15 to read the paper and listen to war news on the radio. One son is a Lieutenant Commander who was at Pearl Harbor. One daughter is a nurse with the Jefferson unit in Egypt. The hat rack in the corner belonged to General Sutter on whose land gold was found in 1849 in California, who died in Lititz.

Penasco, NM. The radio is the only contact with the outside world. Papers come rarely to the town, and the nurse at the clinic operated by the Taos County cooperative health association must depend on the news broadcasts to follow daily events.
 

This photo is in the National Archives ARC Digital Copies collection.

A mother and grandmother listening to News Broadcasts and Bing Crosby.

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Audio

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World War II broadcasting (list of online "broadcasts"; British as well as American material)

EyeWitness to History:  Voices of the Twentieth Century (not all material is from WWII)

Edward R. Murrow radio news broadcasts (MP3 files)

Radio News (mostly WWII audios; also profiles of radio newsmen)

Echoes of the Past (selected WWII news audios)

The War's Voices (scroll down for news broadcasts)

We Interrupt This Program  

Now Hear This  

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Ads

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It’s our Jim on the radio (Admiral radios)

You hear it first on the radio (Motorola radios)

Wired for sound (Motorola radios)
 

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