Employee Color Guards Form Outside Capitol Theatre Before Employee Parade is Formed to Return to Wheeling Factory, Wheeling, W. Va.

Identifier:

048569

Collection Number:

A&M 3470

Title:

Employee Color Guards Form Outside Capitol Theatre Before Employee Parade is Formed to Return to Wheeling Factory, Wheeling, W. Va.

Date:

1942

Description:

Photo taken during the Army-Navy Award presentation inside of the Capitol Theatre in Wheeling, West Virginia. The presentation was broadcast on over 127 radio stations of NBC's Blue Network, including the Wheeling Steelmakers radio program. The Wheeling Steelmakers radio broadcast was moved to the Capitol Theatre in Wheeling, West Virginia in 1939 as production became more polished and more and more listeners tuned in.

Acquisition Source:

Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Corporation. Stoll, Richard E.

Acquisition Method:

Gift

Medium:

print

Projects:

West Virginia History OnView