Search Results
- IDNO:
- 048663
- Title:
- Group of Musicians Auditioning for 'It's Wheeling Steel' Program
- Date:
- Undated
- Description:
- Everyone pictured is either an employee of the Wheeling Steel Corporation or is an immediate family member of someone who works for them. This family owned and operated broadcast was the first of it's kind and this policy was maintained throughout the broadcast's existence.
- IDNO:
- 048664
- Title:
- 'It's Wheeling Steel' Show at Market Auditorium, Wheeling, W. Va.
- Date:
- Undated
- IDNO:
- 048666
- Title:
- William Griffiths, Second Tenor of the Millmen Quartette on Stage Behind Microphone, Yorkville, W. Va.
- Date:
- Undated
- Description:
- The Millmen Quartette were a barbershop quartette that performed regularly on the "It's Wheeling Steel" radio broadcast from 1936 to 1943.
- IDNO:
- 048667
- Title:
- Proud Mother and Father With Margaret Cook After 'It's Wheeling Steel' Broadcast
- Date:
- Undated
- Description:
- Margaret Cook was a performer on the "It's Wheeling Steel" radio broadcast. Her father, was an electrician at the Steubenville Works.
- IDNO:
- 048668
- Title:
- Twelve Year Old Margaret Cook Acts Her Song As She Sings For Wheeling Steel's Nation-Wide Family and Friends
- Date:
- Undated
- IDNO:
- 048669
- Title:
- Ed Kostillo Headlining 'It's Wheeling Steel' Radio Broadcast
- Date:
- Undated
- Description:
- Ed Kostillo from the pipe mills of the Benwood Works started playing his harmonica to entertain his fellow mill men during lunch hour. Later he won a headliner appearance on the family broadcast with the entire steelmakers orchestra accompanying him.
- IDNO:
- 048670
- Title:
- Ed Kostillo Playing Harmonica for Fellow Mill Men, Benwood, W. Va.
- Date:
- Undated
- Description:
- Ed Kostillo from the pipe mills of the Benwood Works started playing his harmonica to entertain his fellow mill men during lunch hour. Later he won a headliner appearance on the family broadcast with the entire steelmakers orchestra accompanying him.
- IDNO:
- 048672
- Title:
- Erma Ellis and Mary Visnick Leading Martins Ferry Band on 'It's Wheeling Steel' Radio Broadcast
- Date:
- Undated
- Description:
- Caption accompanying photograph reads: "Erma Ellis and Mary Visnick are employed at the Martins Ferry Factory. When dressed in their uniforms these two comely drum majors lead the way when the Martins Ferry Band marches to the broadcast of "It's Wheeling Steel"."
- IDNO:
- 048673
- Title:
- Yorkville Works Brass Band Preparing to Perform on 'It's Wheeling Steel'
- Date:
- Undated
- Description:
- Caption accompanying photograph reads: "The Yorkville Works Brass Band has made several pleasing headliner appearances of the family broadcast. All in their snappy uniforms, thus adding color for the visible audience of "It's Wheeling Steel"."
- IDNO:
- 048674
- Title:
- Bud Dicarlo Warming Up on Accordion With Wheeling Steelmakers Band
- Date:
- Undated
- Description:
- Caption accompanying photograph reads: "Bud Dicarlo's father is a steelmaker from the Benwood Works and Bud worked hard on his accordion solo to please his dad and Wheeling Steel's Nation Wide Family."
- IDNO:
- 048675
- Title:
- 'Old Timer' John Wincholl and Nicky Conti With Accordion
- Date:
- Undated
- Description:
- John Wincholl, Wheeling Steel Co. auditor played the role of the "Old Timer" who became a popular character on the "It's Wheeling Steel" broadcast. He would introduce acts and provide small talk.
- IDNO:
- 048676
- Title:
- Frank Nalepa, Deep Bass of the Millmen Quartette Working With Coal at Steubenville Works
- Date:
- Undated
- Description:
- Caption accompanying photograph reads: "Frank Nalepa deep bass of the Millmen Quartette works every day with coal and scales at the Steubenville Works, rushes to the studio four times a week to rehearse, and found time to regularly visit Pittsburgh for voice lessons to improve his broadcast. Quit for Mit Show." The Millmen Quartette were regulars on the "It's Wheeling Steel" radio broadcast.
