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This music roll was made by Mills Novelty Company in Chicago, Illinois, about 1922-1925. It is Roll #2038, playable in a Violano Virtuoso player. The tune list for this roll is as follows:

Roll #2038 - Hand Played Dance Roll
8801: Dancing Fool (fox trot), Smith-Wheeler-Snyder, copyright 1922, Waterson, Berlin & Snyder Co.
8802: You Won't Be Sorry (fox trot). Burtnett-Marcasie-Kerr, copyright 1922, Sherman, Clay & Co.
8803: Lonesome Land (fox trot), Hirsch-Arden Green, copyright 1922, Richmond-Robbins, Inc.
8804: I Love Her - She Loves Me (fox trot), Irving Caesar & Eddie Cantor, copyright 1922, Harms, Inc.
8805: Those Days Are Over (fox trot), Sterling-Moran-Von Tilzer, copyright 1922, Harry Von Tilzer Music Pub. Co.

This music roll was made by Mills Novelty Company in Chicago, Illinois, about 1926-1927. It is Roll #2576, playable in a Violano Virtuoso player. The tune list for this roll is as follows:

Roll #2576 - Hand Played Dance Roll
10789: That's Why I Love You (fox trot), Donaldson-Ash, copyright 1926, Leo Feist, Inc.
10790: Roses (fox trot), Britt-C. Tobia - H. Tobias, copyright 1926, Frank Clark, Inc.
10791: At Peace With the World (waltz), Irving Berlin, copyright 1926, Irving Berlin
10792: Give Me Today (fox trot), Titsworth-Kerr-Bell, copyright 1926, Sherman Clay & Co.
10793: My Pal Jerry (fox trot), Fred Rose - R. Becker, copyright 1926, Ted Brown

This music roll was made by Mills Novelty Company in Chicago, Illinois, about 1927-1928. It is Roll #2723, playable in a Violano Virtuoso player. The tune list for this roll is as follows:

Roll #2723 - Request Dance Numbers for the Month
13608: Eyes Were Never made For Crying (fox trot), Kerr-McPhail, copyright 1926, Jack Mills, Inc.
13609: Do You Love Me (fox trot), Rube Wolf-Billy Merrick, copyright 1927, Sherman Clay Co.
13610: A Shady Tree (waltz), Walter Donaldson, copyright 1927, Leo Feist
13611: Highways Are Happy Ways (fox trot), Harris-Malie-Shay, copyright 1927, Milton Weil Music Co.
13612: Swanee Shor (fox trot), Cliff Hess-C. Bourne, copyright 1927, Jerome Remick

This mixing box was made by Raytheon Manufacturing Company in Chicago, Illinois, 1950s. It is a portable mixing box, model RR-30, serial #201, made of metal, with plastic components. This mixing box was used with other equipment in the remote ready box (2002.0319.20) by the Annapolis, Maryland radio station, WANN (1190 AM), for remote broadcasts. The mixer was accessioned with a custom carrying box, made of wood, covered with beige and brown fabric, with a clear plastic handle, two metal latches, and metal covered corners. The front of the box is stenciled “WANN.”

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.

WANN continued to program gospel, rhythm and blues, and public affairs features until 1992 when the station changed to a mainstream country format with the catchphrase “Bay Country 1190.” Around 1998, the station changed ownership and became WBIS, broadcasting a News Talk Information format.

This music roll was made by Mills Novelty Company in Chicago, Illinois, about 1924-1925. It is Roll #2331, playable in a Violano Virtuoso player. The tune list for this roll is as follows:

Roll #2331 - Hand Played Light Classical Roll
9857: Marcheta (A Love Song of Old Mexico), Schertzinger-O-Hare, copyright 1924, J. Franklin Co.
9858: Will You Remember from "Maytime," S. Romberg, copyright 1917, G. Schirmer
9859: Love Has a Way (them melody for Mary Pickford in "Dorothy Vernon of Hadden Hall"), Victor Schertzinger, copyright 1924, H. Flammer
9860: When You're Away from "The Only Girl," Blossom V. Herbert, copyright 1914, M. Witmark
9861: A Kiss in the Dark from “Orange Blossom" (waltz), DeSilva - V. Herbert, copyright 1922, Harms, Inc.

Lu Watters and his Yerba Buena Jazz Band. side 1: Antiqua Blues; side 2: Copenhagen (Mercury 11052), from the album, Lu Watters Jazz (Mercury C-103).
78 rpm.

The cover art for this album was by David Stone Martin (born David Livingstone Martin, 1913-1992). Martin was an American artist best known for his illustrations on jazz album covers for labels including Mercury, Asch, Clef, Disc, and Dial. Many of his commissions were from Martin’s longtime friend, American jazz record producer and concert promoter Norman Granz (1918-2001).

Oscar Peterson. side 1: Where or When; side 2: Oscar's Blues (Mercury 8922), from the album, Oscar Peterson (Mercury C106).
78 rpm.

The cover art for this album was by David Stone Martin (born David Livingstone Martin, 1913-1992). Martin was an American artist best known for his illustrations on jazz album covers for labels including Mercury, Asch, Clef, Disc, and Dial. Many of his commissions were from Martin’s longtime friend, American jazz record producer and concert promoter Norman Granz (1918-2001).