WNYC Radio Audio Preservation and Access Project

WNYC's Archives and Preservation Department is digitizing 660 hours of recordings from the NYC Municipal Archives WNYC collection. Annotations, the NEH preservation project blog, offers highlights from the collection. The following list provides just some of the blog entries that feature women:

• Marian Anderson addresses the issues of prejudice and segregation in this 1957 Books and Authors Luncheon appearance. 
• Svetlana Alliluyeva, the daughter of Joseph Stalin, replies to questions by the New York press after leaving the Soviet Union. 
• Rachel Carson, 1951 - Carson's speech at the New York Herald Tribune's Books and Authors Luncheon focused on her book, The Sea Around Us.
• Overseas Press Club, Dickey Chapelle, 1964 Chapelle, a pioneering photojournalist who received the Award for Gallantry in News Coverage from the Overseas Press Club  in 1964, was killed in 1965 by a land mine while covering the Vietnam War. The Wisconsin Historical Society offers an online collection of more than 400 or Chapelle's photographs from World War II, Algiers, Cuba, and Vietnam. 
• Eleanor Roosevelt tribute (1962)  Friends of Eleanor Roosevelt shared their memories just three days after her death.