Search Results
- IDNO:
- 048758
- Title:
- Steel Sisters and Other 'It's Wheeling Steel' Performers on Stage
- Date:
- Undated
- IDNO:
- 048759
- Title:
- 'It's Wheeling Steel' Radio Show Producer Maury Longfellow
- Date:
- Undated
- Description:
- "It's Wheeling Steel" was a radio broadcast used to advertise Wheeling Steel Corporation products and their talented employees. The entire operation was ran by employees or immediate family members of the company, the first all employee broadcast.
- IDNO:
- 048760
- Title:
- Performers Dressed as Candy Stripers Preparing to Perform With the Musical Steelmakers Orchestra
- Date:
- Undated
- Description:
- The Musical Steelmakers were the orchestra that performed on "It's Wheeling Steel" radio broadcast on NBC's Blue Network. Note the flag behind the performers on stage. The blue stars represented people who were serving in the war, and a gold star represented those who died in service.
- IDNO:
- 048761
- Title:
- Steel Sisters Perform on 'It's Wheeling Steel' Radio Broadcast on NBC's Blue Network
- Date:
- Undated
- IDNO:
- 048762
- Title:
- Audience for Radio Program 'It's Wheeling Steel'
- Date:
- Undated
- IDNO:
- 048763
- Title:
- Musical Steelmakers Orchestra Performing With The Millmen, The Steel Sisters, and The Evans Sisters
- Date:
- Undated
- Description:
- Performance was part of a "It's Wheeling Steel" radio broadcast.
- IDNO:
- 048764
- Title:
- Bass Player for Musical Steelmakers, Orchestra for 'It's Wheeling Steel' Radio Broadcast
- Date:
- Undated
- IDNO:
- 048765
- Title:
- Navy Man Performing on 'It's Wheeling Steel' Radio Broadcast
- Date:
- Undated
- IDNO:
- 048766
- Title:
- 'The Old Timer' John Winchcoll and Lois Mae Nolte, Host and Performer on 'It's Wheeling Steel' Radio Broadcast
- Date:
- Undated
- Description:
- Caption on back of photograph reads: "John Winchcoll, the "Old Timer", and Lois Mae Nolte, singing mistress of ceremonies, have been with the "Musical Steelmakers" series from the start. Winchcoll, an auditor with the company, is a veteran employee, who was chosen as representative of the typical Wheeling employee. Miss Nolte, though only 19, has been on the show in all its seven years, first as one of the Steel Sisters, later as a soloist."
- IDNO:
- 048767
- Title:
- The Evans Sisters, Singers on 'It's Wheeling Steel' Radio Broadcast
- Date:
- Undated
- Description:
- From left to right: Margaret June, Betty Jane, and Janet Jean.
- IDNO:
- 048768
- Title:
- Cook Brothers on Surveyor's Branch, Summers County, W. Va.
- Date:
- 1945
- Description:
- Denver and Benny Cook are pictured together in front of a wire fence.
- IDNO:
- 048769
- Title:
- Members of Lilly and Cook Family at Surveyor's Branch, Summers County, W. Va.
- Date:
- 1945
- Description:
- Front row is Murvel and Juanita Lilly. Back row, from left to right, is Nancy Lilly, Virgie Lilly, Denver Cook and Lula Cook.
