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KSUB Radio photograph collection, 1950-1959

Overview of the Collection

Photographer
KSUB Radio
Title
KSUB Radio photograph collection
Dates
1950-1959 (inclusive)
Quantity
240 images, (0.5 linear feet)
Collection Number
P0253
Summary
The KSUB Radio photograph collection (1950-1959) contains prints and negatives related to KSUB Radio sponsored events and contests.
Repository
University of Utah Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library
University of Utah
295 South 1500 East
Salt Lake City, UT
84112-0860

Telephone: 8015818863
special@library.utah.edu
Access Restrictions

Twenty-four hour advanced notice encouraged. Materials must be used on-site. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law.

Languages
English
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Historical Note

KSUB is an AM Talk Radio station licensed to Cedar City, Utah.

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Content Description

The KSUB radio collection consists of photographs documenting the establishment of KSUB in Cedar City, Utah. It contains images of the construction of KSUB’s radio tower and later pictures of KSUB sponsored events and contests. There are also images of news coverage of atomic bomb testing in Utah’s deserts

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Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Use

The library does not claim to control copyright for all materials in the collection. An individual depicted in a reproduction has privacy rights as outlined in Title 45 CFR, part 46 (Protection of Human Subjects). For further information, please review the J. Willard Marriott Library’s Use Agreement and Reproduction Request forms.

Preferred Citation

Initial Citation: KSUB Radio Photograph Collection, P0253, Box [ ]. Special Collections and Archives. University of Utah, J. Willard Marriott Library. Salt Lake City, Utah.

Following Citations: P0253.

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Administrative Information

Arrangement

Arranged by subject.

Acquisition Information

Donated by Howard and Jerry Johnson, owners of KSUB in 1985.

Processing Note

Processed by Nico Holguin in 2011.

Separated Materials

See also the KSUB AV collection (A253) located in the Multimedia Division of Special Collection.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

  • Description: KSUB staff

    • 1: Man wearing glasses and a suit
    • 2: Woman in dress sitting next to wicker desk with a KSUB microphone on top
    • 3: Woman in dress standing next to KSUB microphone
    • 4: Woman sitting by wicker desk
    • 5: Man wearing headphones by desk
    • 6: Man wearing headphones by desk and microphone
    • 7: Man wearing collared shirt and glasses
    • 8: Woman with curled hair
    • 9: Man wearing collared shirt and gelled hair
    • 10: Man walking down hallway
    • 11: Man in recording booth
    • 12: Woman sitting by typewriter
    • 13: Man on telephone sitting at desk
    • 14: Man using a typwriter
    • 15: Mrs. Higbee and Bob Heyborne
    • 16: Man in recording booth
    • 17: Man sitting at desk
    • 18: Man sitting on desk
    • 19: Don Stewart in uniform
    • 20: Woman wearing hairnet holding a microphone
    • 21: People lined up for a picture
    • 22: Emma Lou Warren and Evelyn K Jones by a piano
    • 23: C. Eldred Foster and woman standing by a KSUB microphone
    • 24: Utah broadcasters association at the group’s annual convention
    • 25: Beth Talbot using typewriter
    • 26: Arthur Higbee – Beth Talbot – Roscoe Grove studying plans for new KSUB transmitter

    Dates: 1950-1959
    Container: Box 1, Folder 1
  • Description: Portraits: radio correspondents

    • 1: Thomas Lowell
    • 2: Edward R Murrow
    • 3: C. Eldred Foster
    • 4: C. Eldred Foster

    Dates: 1950-1959
    Container: Box 1, Folder 2
  • Description: Studio and remodeling

    • 1-9: Studio Remodeling, January 1955
    • 10: Equipment in the recording booth
    • 11: Man using record player
    • 12: KSUB transmitter
    • 13: KSUB operating position
    • 14: KSUB control room
    • 15: Entrance to KSUB studios
    • 16: KSUB office

    Dates: 1950-1959
    Container: Box 1, Folder 3
  • Description: Community events

    • 1: People sitting by sheep
    • 2: Ranchers exhibiting cows
    • 3: Sheep ranchers
    • 4:Cattlemen
    • 5: Boy standing by prize winning sheep
    • 6: People sitting in the park
    • 7: People sitting under a tree

    Dates: 1950-1959
    Container: Box 1, Folder 4
  • Description: Easter community events

    • 1: KSUB Easter Egg Hunt sign
    • 2: KSUB "Treasure Chest Party" at the back of the lawn of the Hotel Escalante, 1956
    • 3: Children hunting for Easter eggs
    • 4:Group of children standing under a tree
    • 5: Easter egg hunt
    • 6: Large group standing around car
    • 7: Children playing in the park
    • 8:Man carrying box through park
    • 9:Group of children playing in St. George, Utah
    • 10: Boy standing next to bicycle
    • 11: Group of children playing on a football field

    Dates: 1950-1959
    Container: Box 1, Folder 5
  • Description: Music programming

    • 1: Group of people standing in KSUB studios
    • 2: Two men standing by KSUB microphone
    • 3: Man standing by microphone
    • 4: Two men standing by KSUB microphone
    • 5: Secretary sitting at desk
    • 6: Parley Baer and Francis Urie in KSUB Studios
    • 7: Dick Ashard, Henry Mattingly, Francis Urie, and Parley Baer
    • 8: Austin Jones, Parley “Baer, Lucille Ellison, Francis Urie, and Roscoe Grover
    • 9: Salvadore Baccalone, Basso-Buffo of the Metropolitan Opera Company, 1948
    • 10: President Terrell Drinkwater of Western Air Lines
    • 11: Mary Urie interviewing Peggy Ann Garner
    • 12: Mary Urie and Peggy Ann Garner
    • 13: Bob Helton and the Blue Ridge Boys
    • 14: C. Eldred Foster and Emma Lou Warren with Reed Berrett
    • 15: Halverson Singing Strings: Roy L. Haverson, Vigrinia Larson, June Decker, Marion Bradshaw and Ruth Corry
    • 16: Man and woman standing by KSUB microphone
    • 17: Group of men standing around piano
    • 18: Man playing the violin
    • 19: Blue Ridge Boys and Peggy Ann Garner
    • 20: Five men dressed in white jackets with black bow ties
    • 21: Choir
    • 22:Choir standing in front of pipe organ
    • 23: Choir standing in front of pipe organ

    Dates: 1950-1959
    Container: Box 1, Folder 6
  • Description: Sports programming

    • 1: Group of boys sitting by sports broadcasters
    • 2: Stuntman in chair being hoisted by small crane
    • 3: Person parachuting by cliff
    • 4: Football game
    • 5: Basketball game

    Dates: 1950-1959
    Container: Box 1, Folder 7
  • Description: General programming

    • 1: Rod Cameron
    • 2: Irene Tedrow
    • 3: Bob H. and Joe Hragoyan
    • 4: Bob H. and Rod Cameron
    • 5: Trucks moving movie equipment
    • 6: Slim Pickens of “Dear John”
    • 7: Joe Hragoyan
    • 8: Rod Cameron
    • 9: Irene Tedrow
    • 10: Woman in sunglasses speaking into microphone at an airport
    • 11: Woman standing on porch
    • 12: Beth Leigh – Stars of Tomorrow, 1955
    • 13: Portrait of a woman wearing a dress with a belt
    • 14: Man interviewing a woman
    • 15: Sheriff Nelson – Bob Heyborne
    • 16: Fire truck obscured by smoke
    • 17: Smoke billowing out of building
    • 18: Three men at the capitol, May 25, 1955
    • 19: Fire at Parowan Mercantile Company
    • 20: Fire at Parowan Mercantile Company
    • 21:Wedding of Miss Grace Kelly and the Prince of Monaco
    • 22: Caroll Staker, Warren Bulloch, and Art Higbee, 1950
    • 23: The Texas Rangers
    • 24: Fire at Parowan Mercantile Company

    Dates: 1950-1959
    Container: Box 1, Folder 8
  • Description: Programming, Glen Canyon Contruction

    • 1: Track in desert
    • 2: Upstream view of Glen Canyon dam site
    • 3: Highscalers drill into wall of Glen Canyon
    • 4: Aerial looking downstream at Glen Canyon dam site
    • 5: Glen Canyon Dam First Bucket of Concrete

    Dates: 1950-1959
    Container: Box 1, Folder =9
  • Description: Station promotions

    • 1: Black out Polio Promotion
    • 2: Even in Sweden they listen to KSUB
    • 3: KSUB promotion board
    • 4: KSUB election coverage
    • 5: Frank Hemmingway promotion
    • 6: KSUB promotion board
    • 7: KSUB concert hall
    • 8: KSUB “Fresh-Up Music Box”
    • 9: Frank Barreca – Tri-State News
    • 10: Winners for KSUB Family Vacation Contest
    • 11: KSUB station promotion
    • 12: KSUB – Bill Crosby
    • 13: KSUB Sunday Show
    • 14: KSUB News
    • 15: KSUB Convention Coverage
    • 16: “I was a Communist for the FBI” – Radio Program
    • 17: Election Coverage
    • 18: Cerebral Palsy Marathon
    • 19: KSUB window
    • 20: KSUB window
    • 21:Hurricane Sam coverage
    • 22: KSUB Mystery Tunes contest
    • 23:KSUB Mystery Tunes contest advertisement in window
    • 24:Mystery Tunes contest
    • 25: Mystery Tunes contest awards
    • 26: Mystery Tunes contest
    • 27: Easter Egg Hunt rewards
    • 28: CBS station promotion

    Dates: 1950-1959
    Container: Box 1, Folder 10
  • Description: "Crazy Days" promotion

    • 1: Man wearing a dress
    • 2: Man wearing a dress sitting on a car
    • 3: Man wearing dress standing by car
    • 4: Two men wearing dresses by a microphone
    • 5: Men wearing skirts by KSUB station
    • 6: KSUB booth
    • 7: KSUB live broadcast
    • 8: Party in backyard
    • 9: Party in backyard

    Dates: 1950-1959
    Container: Box 1, Folder 11
  • Description: encodinganalog="title">KSUB on the road

    • 1: Group standing by KSUB radio car
    • 2: KSUB billboard
    • 3: KSUB radio car parked alongside of road
    • 4: Group of cars parked on road
    • 5:Cars parked along the road
    • 6:KSUB billboard
    • 7: KSUB billboard
    • 8: KSUB car
    • 9: Group standing by KSUB car

    Dates: 1950-1959
    Container: Box 1, Folder 12
  • Description: Polio Fund Drive

    • 1: Money in window
    • 2: Money in KSUB window
    • 3: Money in window for Polio Drive
    • 4: Man sitting by microphone in front of window full of money for Polio drive
    • 5:Windows full of money
    • 6:Window full of money
    • 7: Man sitting by microphone
    • 8: Window full of money
    • 9: Window full of cash
    • 10: Man reading children’s’ book to polio victim

    Dates: 1950-1959
    Container: Box 1, Folder 13
  • Description: Radio tower and contruction

    • 1: Man looking up at KSUB radio tower
    • 2: Raising the KSUB radio tower
    • 3: Ditch
    • 4: Bulldozer in the desert
    • 5: Tire tracks in the desert
    • 6: Truck mounted shovel
    • 7: Raising KSUB radio tower
    • 8: Construction material laid out in desert
    • 9: Radio tower foundation in desert
    • 10: Cement mixer
    • 11: KSUB radio tower
    • 12: Two men looking at radio tower
    • 13: Desert scrub
    • 14: Upward view of KSUB radio tower
    • 15: KSUB radio tower
    • 16: KSUB radio tower
    • 17: KSUB Transmitter building
    • 18:KSUB transmitter building
    • 19: House near radio tower
    • 20: House with radio tower in background

    Dates: 1950-1959
    Container: Box 1, Folder 14
  • Description: Contest winners

    • 1: Treasure chest contest winners, 1955
    • 2:Ardella Ford, winner of cedar chest, 1955
    • 3:Sharlene Prince, winner of Underwood portable typewriter
    • 4: Robert Hansen
    • 5: Prize winners
    • 6: Prize winner
    • 7:Mrs. Leslie Cowart
    • 8:Thomas P. McArthur, winner of Coleman grill
    • 9: Mary Ellen Edmunds, winner of pencil set
    • 10:Mrs. Lucille Murdock, winner of Bendidy Auto Washer
    • 11: Dr. Rodney Beown
    • 12:Doris Corry, winner of year supply of Pepsi
    • 13: Mrs. David Murie, winner of Firestone clock radio
    • 14:Mrs. C. M. Betty
    • 15:Mr. MacDonald
    • 16:Mr. Browning
    • 17:Ruth C. Boardman
    • 18:Merchant prize winner
    • 19:Prize winner
    • 20:Woman prize winner
    • 21:Don Knight
    • 22:Woman in dress, prize winner
    • 23:1st Prize winner
    • 24:Prize winner, Maytag
    • 25: Mrs. LaVerne Isom, winner of Maytag Auto Ironer
    • 26:1st prize winner, Palmer family
    • 27-36: 1954 Vacation Contest Prize Winners
    • 37:Boy in wheelchair by microphone
    • 38:KSUB Family Vacation Contest advertisement
    • 39:Prize winner
    • 40:Prize winner of clock radio
    • 41:Clock radio prize winner
    • 42-49: Radio prize winner

    Dates: 1950-1959
    Container: Box 1, Folder 15
  • Description: Atomic bomb testing and coverage

    • 1: Atomic bomb cloud in the distance
    • 2: Atomic bomb broadcast, 1952
    • 3-20:Atomic bomb test, June 24, 1955
    • 21: KSUB preparing for onsite coverage of the atomic bomb testing

    Dates: 1950-1959
    Container: Box 1, Folder 16
  • Description: Duplicates
    Dates: 1950-1959
    Container: Box 1, Folder 17

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