Marcella Lally visual materials
- Collection ID 2016.0040.1-.3
- Creator Names WBBM Radio Station
- Title Marcella Lally visual materials [graphic] 1929, 1931
- Physical description 1.25 linear feet, including 1 pamphlet and 1 image (1 folder)
- Collection summary Black-and-white photographic print and printed WBBM Radio Log (with annotations) related to the career of Marcella Lally, a performer on Chicago's local radio and television stations in the late 1920s-1930s. Photograph depicts Lally singing and playing the piano. Pamphlet includes images of WBBM radio studios and other performers including Ray Miller and his College Inn Orchestra, pictured on the White House lawn; Bob Nolan; Billy Allen Hoff; Bonnie Blue; Kay Davidson; Lee Sims; and groups such as Moran and Mack: The Two Black Crows, the Plantation Jubilee Singers, The Three Vagabonds, Three Coquettes, Three Peppers, and Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians.
- Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Copyright restrictions apply.
- Location of Other Archival Materials Note Related materials at the Chicago History Museum, Research Center, include the Marcella Lally Duke collection [manuscript], 1929-1982, (bib# 66411).
- Biographical or Historical Note Kathryn Marcella Lally sang and played the piano on local radio (WIBO, WBBM, and WMAQ) in the late 1920s and television in the early 1930s. She stayed in television until getting married in 1938 when she became a teacher.
- Subjects Musicians Illinois Chicago. lctgm.
- Genre Photographic prints. gmgpc
- Names
- Atwell, H. A., photographer.
- Lally, Kathryn Marcella 1908-1984.