Armed Forces Radio Service collection of broadcast recordings

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id: 460
origination: United States. Armed Forces Radio Service
date statement: 1942-1949
key date: 1942
identifier (local_mss): 20439
org unit: Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound
call number: *L (Special) 88-31
b-number: b11159915
total components: 511
total series: 0
max depth: 1
boost queries: (none)
component layout: Berg Layout
Extended MARC Fields: false
Extended Navigation: false
created: 2013-04-01 14:58:55 UTC
updated: 2026-01-20 20:30:12 UTC
status note: (missing)
Display Aeon link: true

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unitid: {"value"=>"*L (Special) 88-31", "type"=>"local_call"}

{"value"=>"20439", "type"=>"local_mss"}
unitdate: {"type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1942/1949", "value"=>"1942-1949"}
date_inclusive_start: 1942
date_inclusive_end: 1949
keydate: 1942
date_start: 1942
date_end: 1949
unittitle: {"value"=>"Armed Forces Radio Service collection of broadcast recordings"}
physdesc: {"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"ca"}, {"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"750 sound discs"}, {"name"=>"physfacet", "value"=>"analog, 33 1/3 rpm"}, {"name"=>"dimensions", "value"=>"16 in."}], "supress_display"=>true}
repository: {"value"=>"The New York Public Library. Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound. <div class=\"address\"> New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center 40 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023-7498</div>"}
abstract: {"value"=>"The Armed Forces Radio Service collection of broadcast recordings consists of electrical transcription discs that the AFRS distributed for broadcast. The substantial portion of the collection consists of concert recordings of the Boston Symphony, NBC Symphony, New York Philharmonic, and other groups, from 1943 through 1945. Also included are selected episodes of a wide variety of other AFRS offerings, such as Globe theater, Mail call, Command performance, Yarns for Yanks, Words with music, and Music from America."}
langmaterial: {"value"=>"Materials in English"}
prefercite: {"value"=>"Armed Forces Radio Service collection of broadcast recordings, Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound, The New York Public Library"}
origination: {"value"=>"United States. Armed Forces Radio Service", "type"=>"corpname"}
custodhist: {"value"=>"Major portions of the Armed Forces Radio Service collection were donated by the Alan Hewitt Estate. Portions also donated by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Lee, among others."}
extent_statement: ca, 750 sound discs : analog, 33 1/3 rpm ; 16 in.

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