WANN Banner
date: label: date made
content: 1950s
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This banner was used by the Annapolis, Maryland radio station WANN during the 1950s. The blue felt banner has gold trim with gold fringe tassels and reads “WANN/10,000 WATTS/DIAL 1190” in gold lettering.</p>
label: Description
content: <p>WANN (1190 AM) was a radio station based out of Annapolis, Maryland that primarily served the area's growing African American community. Morris Blum founded it in 1946, and it broadcast to the entire mid-Atlantic region. The station was home to disc jockey Charles "Hoppy" Adams starting in the early 1950s. Adams hosted weekly events at a local African American only beach, Carr's Beach, which were popular with the area's youth population.</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Popular Entertainment
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
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content: American Enterprise
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Morris H. Blum
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2002.0319.02
label: accession number
content: 2002.0319
label: catalog number
content: 2002.0319.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: banner
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: fabric (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: felt (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 39 in x 41 in x 1 in; 99.06 cm x 104.14 cm x 2.54 cm