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Studs Terkel Radio Archive (WFMT)

CTL-E-1291 · Archive · collection · 1952–2008

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

Decades of WFMT radio interviews by oral historian Studs Terkel with ordinary Chicagoans; includes the Terkel-Charlemae Rollins 'Christmas Gif'' broadcast and interviews across Hard Times, Division Street, and Working.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from LIFE-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-LIFE-001:CTL-LIFE-E-027; source research type(s): source_collection.

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Musicians performing in a South Side tavern, Chicago, 1941
Musicians performing in a South Side tavern, Chicago, 1941Photo: Russell Lee, FSA-OWI, Public Domain, via Library of Congress
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Entertainers in white jackets at a tavern piano, Chicago, 1941Photo: Russell Lee, FSA-OWI, Public Domain, via Library of Congress
A singer with the band at a South Side tavern, Chicago, 1941
A singer with the band at a South Side tavern, Chicago, 1941Photo: Russell Lee, FSA-OWI, Public Domain, via Library of Congress

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