https://thebbrm.org/files/original/023f400ab2f127ed6d3e0aca1fb40ac7.jpg 2f2eb29a9c0d596ecaa3c23c01f2bc58 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Ephemera Collection Description An account of the resource In 2009, BBRM staff and volunteers began the archiving of this collection, with the arranging of objects chronologically (1935 – 1995) and the purchasing of proper archival storage materials. In 2011, an oral finding aid with provenance was constructed by conversations between University of Alabama School of Library and Information Studies (UA SLIS) volunteer Lindsey Reynolds (now at University of Georgia, Athens Library) and BBRM Director Bob Friedman. In 2013 and 2014, those interviews were transcribed by UA SLIS volunteer Michael Mitchell (known affectionately as the MMT). For each object, the original finding aid conversation has been added and can be found in quotes in the description section. As of the most recent online uploading in August, 2019, the Ephemera Collection consisted of eight boxes containing 413 folders with approximately 850 files, spanning the period 1935-1989. Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Stars of WDIA, Memphis Description An account of the resource Box 1 Folder 55: "This is box number one number 55. It is a replica of the staff at WDIA Memphis, the first all black-staffed radio station in the United States. Which depicts 5 of its most popular disc jockeys at the time, including who would become a very famous recording artist, Rufus Thomas. Of course WDIA has a tremendous history; there is a publication you can buy, a book, on the history of WDIA - "Wheelin on Beale" - by Louis Cantor, with a forward by B.B.. King - which is a great book, written by one of the children of the founders of WDIA. If it was all black-staffed doesn’t mean it was all black-owned. The first black-owned station was in Atlanta -WERD - in 1949 as well. And WDIA went on the air about 8 months before WEDR here in Birmingham. Many people appeared on WDIA including BB King and Elvis Presley." A. C. "Moohah" Williams Ford Nelson Memphis Nat Williams Rufus Thomas WDIA Willa Monroe