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Glen Dill collection, bulk 1940-1979

 

Summary

Creator:
Dill, Glen
Abstract:
Collection documents WTSP-AM St. Petersburg radio host, local historian, and Suncoast Past newspaper columnist Glen Dill from 1940 through 1979.
Extent:
5 boxes
2 Reels two film containers
4 items one photographic album, three scrapbooks
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Glen Dill collection. Nelson Poynter Memorial Library Special Collections and University Archives, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, FL.

Background

Scope and content:

Collection covers Glen Dill's journalism and media career from 1940 though 1970. The series are entitled: photographic album, scrapbooks, articles and clippings from the Suncoast News, correspondence with oddities, jokes and greeting cards, bicentennial celebration in Hernando county, clippings, and films. The bulk of this collection focuses on Dill's radio days in St. Petersburg during the postwar years and material includes letters, photographs, postcards, and clippings.

Biographical / historical:

Glen Dill (1910-1993) was the first voice many radio listeners heard in the morning when they tuned into WTSP-AM, a St. Petersburg radio station, from 1942 until 1957. Dill later worked as a disc-jockey and general manager at other local radio stations, including WILZ and WGUL. He also wrote more than one thousand newspaper columns for the Suncoast News and other papers, most with a focus on local history that later became the basis for his 1986 book, The Suncoast Past.

Acquisition information:
Special collections and archives received a donation of nearly a dozen scrapbooks from the Pasco-Hernando Community College library in New Port Richey through Douglas A. Butler, associate director of libraries.

Access and use

Terms of access:

None. The contents of the collection may be subject to copyright. Visit the United States Copyright Office's website at http://www.copyright.gov/ for more information.

Preferred citation:

Glen Dill collection. Nelson Poynter Memorial Library Special Collections and University Archives, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, FL.

Location of this collection:
140 7th Avenue South
St. Petersburg
FL
33701
USA