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One of the County’s Earliest African-American Radio Programs on WNYC 1929-1930

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Department of Agriculture, where he was involved with research related to black farmers. January 15, 1930 – Elmer Carter on “Negro Literature” Elmer Anderson Carter (1890-1973) was the editor of Opportunity, 1928-1942, a magazine published by the New York Urban League, when he appeared in the WNYC studio.

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The Wright Military Flyer Soars on Celluloid: Uncovering the Story of Our Oldest Government Film

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Baumhofer names United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) employee Winfield Scott Clime , later a famous landscape painter, as the cameraman who filmed the 1908 test. According to Agriculture Department lore, this early filmmaking was done with a degree of secrecy.