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How does one get a copy of this recording? Can LOC post it online? -- Tom Fine ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thom" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Friday, November 16, 2012 8:13 AM Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] New York Subways Radio Documentary >A copy exists at the Library of Congress. See: http://lccn.loc.gov/2002660082 > > Thom Pease > Library of Congress > > On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 6:34 AM, Chris J Brady <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> Have you tried >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_of_Television_%26_Radio >> >> CJB >> > LC control no.: 2002660082 > LCCN permalink: http://lccn.loc.gov/2002660082 > Type of material: Nonmusic Sound Recording > Main title: New York subways [sound recording]. > Published/Created: 1948. > Description: 2 sound discs : analog, 33 1/3 rpm ; 16 in. > Related names Willard, Dick. > WOR (Radio station : New York, N.Y.) > British Broadcasting Corporation. > Performer: WOR reporters: Dick Willard ... [et al.] > Credits: Presented by radio station WOR in cooperation with the BBC. > Summary: A radio documentary that examines the New York City subway > system. WOR reporters talk to various employees of the subway system > including a dispatcher, brakeman, signal maintenance man, staff member > of the lost and found, and a police officer. Includes a discussion of > the engineering system and its costs. Closes with an interview with a > nineteen-year-old female passenger, who was named Miss Subway of the > Month. > Subjects: Subways --New York (State) --New York. > Local transit --New York (State) --New York. > Form/Genre: Documentary radio programs. > Notes: Recorded Jan. 28, 1948, by WOR, New York, for broadcast in > Great Britain. > Additional formats: Preservation master. Washington, D.C. : Library > of Congress Magnetic Recording Laboratory, 1968. On 1 sound tape reel > : analog, 7 1/2 ips, 2 track, mono. ; 10 in. > LC classification: LWO 5520 r12A1-3 (preservation master) > CALL NUMBER: LWO 5520 r12 (preservation master) > -- Request in: Request in advance in Rec Sound Ref Center (Madison, LM113) > -- Status: Not Charged >