100 years of student radio history in the DLARC college radio collections
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- College Radio Day celebrates student radio; the Internet Archive's DLARC offers college radio collections.
- Harvard's Weld Phonepterograph Company, founded in 1906, is considered the first college radio club.
- Dartmouth's Radio Association operated amateur station 1YB and later broadcast station WFBK in the 1920s.
- Milwaukee School of Engineering collections include amateur radio, broadcast stations, and 1980s WMSE metal charts.
- Duke University's collection covers 1950s station WDBS and more recent materials from WXDU.
- Vanishing Culture GoFundMe funded digitization of archives from Amherst, Middlebury, and William & Mary, featuring posters, DJ manuals, and studio notebooks.
- DLARC invites contributions from radio clubs, stations, and individuals to expand the digital library.