https://thebbrm.org/files/original/224d663065471408834b2d62b2ff2c36.jpg 4988b487138cb33a8d5ced5112b849d8 https://thebbrm.org/files/original/53479d196ac690b0fab9c84b6764fc69.jpg fd1e84f0edc3c8171803a183cac5cbe0 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 Ben Franklin Description An account of the resource Box 2 Folder 49: "We’re up to folder 49 which has an original picture of Ben Franklin, engineer Ben Franklin and his wife. I don’t remember her name although I spent a lot of time at her house, trying to get some things in order out of Ben’s files. Ben was the first engineer for WJLD and he was in radio before WJLD as well. We do have some audio recordings with him on it as well. He was quite a brilliant man. His library speaks to that. He had books on every topic, many books on electronics, and many books filled with schematic diagrams. He eventually owned his own station in Calera, Alabama; it was a hodgepodge. It was on for a while. He loved it, never strayed from radio. Died at the age of 80. Gary Richardson and myself were both pallbearers at his funeral. I recorded interviews with Ben for about 4 hours and his remembrances in early radio. The building that he’s standing in front of no longer exists. It was on top of Red Mountain which would place the picture sometime between 1948 and the ‘60s. Not much later than that and probably earlier because WJLD and WJLN are very specifically delineated. Also WJLN TV. We don’t have any information on whether or not or how far the project on WJLN TV moved, but there is no recollection of an actual broadcast on WJLN TV. Pictures from Ben Franklin." 1940s 1950s 1960s Ben Franklin Red Mountain WJLD WJLN