Dick “Dick” West performing at WMRN in Marion, Ohio, 1946.
Description
This accession contains a group of black-and-white photographs documenting musician Richard “Dick” West performing at WMRN radio in Marion, Ohio in 1946. The images depict West performing live in the studio with accompanying musicians, illustrating the style of small-ensemble performances commonly broadcast by local radio stations during the mid-20th century.
The photographs survive as scans taken from a family scrapbook and were provided to the WMRN Radio History Archive by donor Larry Hass. The images capture an early period in WMRN’s broadcasting history when live musical performances were a regular feature of station programming.
These photographs provide visual documentation of performers, instrumentation, and studio practices associated with WMRN’s early years and contribute to the archive’s ongoing effort to preserve the cultural and musical heritage connected to the station.