John W. Ripley

John W. Ripley, the publication director of the Shawnee County (Kansas) Historical Society, has been collecting song slides for twenty years.

Articles by John Ripley

Baseball’s Greatest Song, June/july 1983 | Vol. 34, No. 4

… illuminated by the hand-tinted slides that helped make it a hit Read >>

All Join In The Chorus, June 1959 | Vol. 10, No. 4

For almost two decades at the turn of the century illustrated songs charmed nickelodeon audiences. Read >>

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