WLS Family Album: Museum Object and Cultural History
WLS Family Album: date made: 1937. maker: Sears, Roebuck and Co.. Object Name: booklet.
The object in the museum catalogue
WLS Family Album published by Sears, Roebuck and Company in Chicago, Illinois, in 1937.
This booklet features articles about the WLS (World's Largest Store) radio station in Chicago, established by the Sears, Roebuck and Company in 1924. It also features images and biographies of musicians who performed on the WLS program, National Barn Dance, one of the first American country music radio programs and a direct forerunner of the Grand Ole Opry, on WSM radio in Nashville, Tennessee.
Materials, dates and provenance
- date made: 1937
- maker: Sears, Roebuck and Co.
- Object Name: booklet
- Physical Description: paper (overall material)
- Physical Description: ink (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: 11 in x 7 3/4 in x 1/8 in; 27.94 cm x 19.685 cm x .3175 cm
- place made: United States: Illinois, Chicago
- ID Number: 2017.0191.09
- accession number: 2017.0191
- catalog number: 2017.0191.09
- Credit Line: Gift of Stacey Kluck
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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