https://thebbrm.org/files/original/c2d44a35c3739be39d65473399c49ef0.jpg cd428f18c66dd8ea1f8869e440a444d7 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. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. 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 Property History, Bessemer Broadcasting Company Description An account of the resource Box 1 Folder 61: "Box 1 number 61 is a building, a property history, from Brighton and Bessemer Road, the Bessemer Broadcasting Company, which would have been WBCO. This was originally designed in ’49 and it does indicate that as of October 6, 1951 there would have been a photo, one year old completely occupied by then, in ’51 and that would have been BCO. It also indicates a move for BCO but it does have the original description of the building and the tower site. The antenna and the building indicated by A and B. This is out on Blue Lake right now, the most recent station that we know of WSMQ is kind of built on top of the cinderblock building which was WBCO out there. Blue Lake was the second location for WBCO. The first location, as in 1950, on 3rd Avenue and 17th Street in Bessemer, and that information is located somewhere in our files. The document was found in the Birmingham Public Library archives, and originally located in the tax assessor’s office." 1940s 1950s Bessemer Broadcasting Company Birmingham Public Library Blue Lake WBCO