Guestbook
WWJ
One guest register book for WWJ Radio in Detroit. The book has a heavy black leather cover with decorative finishes on the spine and corners. "WWJ" is embossed in gold letters in a rectangular label at the center of the cover. The interior pages are entitled, "WWJ Guest Register," and are printed with black lines and columns on slightly yellowed paper. Column headings provide spaces for the visitor Date, Name, and Address. The register contains approximately 575 un-numbered pages, but only 27 pages have signatures. Visitor addresses include states such as California, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania, and Texas as well as countries such as Argentina, Australia, Canada, China, Denmark, England, Finland, France, Hungary, Ireland, Mexico, Peru, and South Africa. Visitor dates range between September 14, 1931, and January 1, 1950. The register includes the signatures of many entertainers, celebrities, businessmen, and other notable persons such as:
Roy Chapman Andrews, 1933
Gene Autry, 1944
Ali Baba, 1937
Clyde Beatty, 1933
Jack Benny and Mary Livingstone, 1933
Harry Blackstone [Sr.], 1936
Joe E. Brown, 1933
Prentiss M. Brown, 1942
Richard Byrd, 1938
Cab Calloway, 1934
Ty Cobb, 1934
Mickey Cochrane, 1941
George M. Cohan, 1939
Jackie Cooper, 1932, 1938
Buster Crabbe, 1932
Fritz Crisler, 1944
Henry W. L. Dana, 1933
Benny Davis, 1932
Jack Dempsey, 1939
Charles "Gus" Dorais, 1933
Fifi D'Orsay, 1931
Eddie Duchin, 1937
Vivian Duncan, 1933
Will Durant, 1933
Duke Ellington, 1935
Frances Farmer, 1938
Charles Gehringer, 1935
Dorothy Gish, 1941
Hank Greenberg, 1934
Edgar Guest,1939
Edmund Gwenn, 1935
"Little Jackie" Heller, 1932
Sonja Henie, 1937
Edward Everett Horton, 1940
Sam Jaffe, 1937
Edward J. Jeffries, 1941
George Jessel, 1933
Boris Karloff, 1938
Harry Kipke, 1937
Sinclair Lewis, 1939
Alan Lomax, 1933
John Lomax, 1933
Guy Lombardo, 1935
Joe Louis, 1936, 1939, 1945
Baby Rose Marie, 1933
Fibber McGee and Molly, 1936
Dorothy Mackaill, 1932
Victor Moore, 1939
Helen Morgan, 1933
Frank W. Murphy, 1941
Mills Brothers, 1934, 1944
Tom Mix, 1934
Paul Muni, 1933
Conrad Nagel, 1932
Wilma Novak, 1933
Jesse Owens, 1940
Channing Pollock, 1932
Sally Rand, 1934
Martha Raye, 1932
Frank Branch Riley, 1932
Theodore Roosevelt [Jr.], 1940
John Roxborough, 1936
Dorothy Sands, 1933
Fritzi Scheff, 1933
Art Shaw, 1939
Ethel Shutta, 1938
Sigmund Spaeth, 1938
William T. Tilden 2nd, 1932
Arthur Treacher, 1939
Sophie Tucker, 1939
Rudy Vallee, 1932
Johnny Weissmuller, 1932
Gar Wood, 1932
F. [Fielding] H. Yost, 1932
Ziegfeld Follies [various signatures], 1932
