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WLS National Barn Dance, 8th St. Theatre, Chicago
 

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George C. Biggar Portrait

George Biggar, then of Station WLS, Chicago, is shown broadcasting a market news report in the early 1920s. (c1925) Credit USDA Photo

Members of Crosley Corp. at Broadcasting House.
L-R:  James D. Shouse, V.P. Crosley Corp., consultant to Radio Bureau of U.S. Office of War Information; Maurice Gorham, BBC North Amer. Service Director; R.A. Rendel, Ass.t Controller of BBC Overseas Services; George Biggar, Assit. to V.P. of Crosley Corp.
 

Luncheon at Golden Labm, Lebanon, Ohio (10/5/44)
L-R: Ben Werk, Lebanon, Ohio; Ed Mason, WLW; Anthony Hurd, Advisor, British Minister of Agriculture; George Biggar, WLW; David Bailey, County Agent, Lebanon, Ohio; Carl Bibbee, County Agent, Cincinnati, Ohio; Raymond Dunn, Ex. Sec'y., City Farmers' Club
 

J.A. Scott  Watson, Agricultural Attaché, British Embassy, Washington, D.C. (1943-44)

Luncheon at Lexington, Kentucky (10/6/44)
L-R: Lewis Crosley, Exec, Vice President, Crosley Corp.; T.R. Bryans Ass't. Director of Extension Service, University of Kentucky; Anthony Hurd, Advisor to the British Minister of Agriculture; George Biggar, WLW; J.B. Roby, British Consul
 

The Ward of Cordwainer Club held an open air service in the ruins of the Church of Bow Bells (St. Mary le Bow) Cheapside. First service held in the church since it was blitzed in 1904. (July 30, 1942) British Information Services photo
 

London during blitz
Gurny Street, near the elephant and castle, where a number of people were killed an many injured. Picture shows rescue, demolition and report work in progress. Note heaps of salvaged timber at left. British Information Services photo
 

Communal feeding center at Portsmouth. The interior of one of  ten communal feeding centers at Portsmouth, where several thousand meals were served each day (c1943) British Information Services photo
 

Harvesting at Mt. Barton, Devon (Hollow Moor) British Ministry of Information photo

Everybody's Farm
In a London studio of the BBC Mr. G. Biggar (left) of Station WLW, Cincinnati, interviews Mr. Henry Luebcke, Associate Drainage Engineer, U.S. OFfice of Foreign Agricultural Relations, for WLW's Home programme "Everybody's Farm." Center: Mr. J. Warren MacAlpine, BBC North American Talks Organiser, who was producer and announcer of this part of the programme. BBC Copyright Photograph
 

Civil defense workers search ruins of farm in Westmoreland County, England. Westmoreland Gazette photo

Pictures taken by George C. Biggar, WLW agricultural representative, during agricultural tour of wartime Britain (Nov. 1943) Clockwise from top left:

• BBC engineers with mobile recording van for remote broadcasts
• Nellie Aitken bombed out of London east end now a Land Army Girl in Berkshire
• Warren MacAlpine and Ernest Davies of BBC standing near one of Burnham Beeches near London
• George C. Biggar interviewing James Steel, Berkshire farmer for BBC broadcast to WLW
• Warren MacAlpine and Ernest Davies of BBC with driver Aleen Hinds of Motor Transport Corps.

Portsmouth after blitz. The Guild Hall is in the background. British Information Services photo

KMBC Poster

Banjo Boyd

Ross Anderson, Scrapbook

KMBC Logo
 

Georgia J. Crout,
Home Advisor
 

Home Town Singers

Bungalow Studio

Geo. C. Biggar
Director ~ Announcer

Arkansas Woodchopper

The Melody Men

Fiddlin' Bearcats