Photograph of a family of ten sitting or standing around a stove. Five of them are playing instruments while the rest listen. The walls and ceiling around them are papered with pages from catalogs, magazines, or newspapers and the floors are made of wooden boards. On the back wall on the right side is a calendar with a gun hanging above it. In the corner on the same side is a standing mirror. On the right wall is a window covered with lacy curtains. Overtop the stove, on the mantle, are two oil lamps.

Photograph of an unidentified man in a necktie. The stamp on the reverse side for Eyerman studios places the photo in Cumberland, Maryland, likely at radio station WTBO.

Photograph of Willis Conover in a group including Russ Morgan, who is squatting in front of a row of people with one other person on his left. At the top left is a door with a window reading "WTBO studios, 3rd floor," and "Dr. Dewhurst, dentist." The photo is autographed by Russ Morgan.

Photograph believed to be of Willis Conover as Edgar Allan Poe in the production of Plumes in the Dust at the State Teachers College in Salisbury, MD, May, 1939. The seated woman may be Anne Jones.

Photograph of an unidentified man at a microphone. The stamp on the reverse side for Eyerman studios places the photo in Cumberland, Maryland, likely at radio station WTBO.

Photograph of an unidentified man at a microphone. The stamp on the reverse side for Eyerman studios places the photo in Cumberland, Maryland, likely at radio station WTBO.

Photograph of Willis Conover reading at a radio microphone

Photograph believed to be of Willis Conover as Edgar Allan Poe in the production of Plumes in the Dust at the State Teachers College in Salisbury, MD, May, 1939. The seated woman may be Anne Jones.

Photograph of a man, visible from the chest up, posing with a fiddle and wearing a hat and a leather jacket.

Photograph of L to R: 2. James Simpson, 4. Charlie Christian, 5. Eddie Christian in Oklahoma City, OK, c.1939.

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.

Photograph of Jose Alvarez and his sons, Frank, Jose, Jr. and George. They are dressed in their costumes in October 1939. They form a mariachi band and their instruments are on the ground before them.

Photograph of Roy Eldridge, holding a trumpet in his left hand and a conductor's baton in his right, hand, and clarinetist Prince Robinson standing at a microphone.

Photograph of Roy Eldridge, holding a trumpet in his left hand, and a conductor's baton in his right hand, and clarinetist Prince Robinson.

Photograph of Roy Eldridge, holding a trumpet in his left hand, and a conductor's baton in his right hand, with clarinetist Prince Robinson.

Photograph of a man singing from a old songbook. The man stands on the right side of the image and looks down to read the sheet music from the book, the book is tattered and he folds it over its spine to only look at one page. In the background a man is seen sitting in a pew staring directly at the camera, it is night time and a window is open behind him.

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Civic Center / Air view city"

Photograph of a choir conductor using a pitch pipe at the start of rehearsal. The man stands in the center of the image and looks off-camera to the left, he holds the pitch pipe to his mouth with his right hand and an open songbook in his left hand. A blackboard can be seen behind him on the left, and two hats hang on the wall on the right.

Photograph of a man singing from a song book at church. The man, presumably the choir director, stands on the right side of the image and holds an open song book that reads "Radio Revival Special" in his left hand, and conducts the choir with his right. Some of the choir can be seen sitting in pews in the lower left corner of the image, all of them focused on singing.

Photograph of Port Arthur High School student band. The people are posing in five rows holding musical instruments; they are wearing uniforms and hats. In the background, there is a building with three archways in the front.

Photograph of a conductor waving his baton. The baton is in high in the air to signal an upbeat while his hand is palm up to signal a crescendo.

Photograph of a church choir in rehearsal. The choir sits in pews in the center of the image almost in the background, the rest of the choir sits on the left side of the image and the choir conductor stands on the right behind the altar. The choir conductor looks down at an open book he holds in his left hand and writes measures on the wall behind him in chalk, a furnace and empty pews can be seen in the foreground of the image.

Photograph of a man conducting an ensemble. His right hand is holding his conductor's baton up in the air and his left hand's palm is facing the ground to signal a decrescendo.

Photograph of two young men playing guitar outside at night while molasses is being made in the background. The men are sitting on the ground on the left side of the picture, one focusing on his guitar and the other looking off camera. An older man and woman are in the background stirring the molasses, the woman is holding a tray in her left hand.