NYPR Archives & Preservation

The NYPR Archives provides a central repository for thousands of audio recordings, photographs, memorabilia, reports, news items, program guides, institutional records, and promotional materials.

Among its holdings are more than 70,000 recordings in a variety of formats, from early lacquer and acetate discs, to reel-to-reel tapes, to digital audio tapes and compact discs.

The WNYC website is currently undergoing maintenance. Some of the Archives’ content is temporarily unavailable; we are working to restore it.
For questions about this matter, licensing of NYPR content, and general research, please reach out to us via the Archives’ request form.

• A Song for the Melting Snow
• Guests on WNYC/WQXR born 100 years ago
• Echoes of Women's Voices on WNYC
• Radio X
• Toumani Diabté, Virtuoso Kora Player, Passes Away
• Barbershop Quartets in 1939
• Before the Web: WNYC's Program Guides 1935 - 2000
• WNYC's Believe It Or Not...
• A Radio Legacy Continues: Processing the Bob Sherman Collection
• The 'King of the Twelve-String Guitar' is a WNYC Regular Through the 1940s
• Folklorist Julian Lee Rayford on Paul Bunyan
• The WNYC-WNYE Connection
• Could You Keep Up With Franklin Roosevelt's Schedule?
• "WQXR is a Different Kind of Radio Station"
• As Victims of the Triangle Fire Get a Memorial This Week, Earlier Tributes Can Be Heard
• Early Radio Documentary and Recording at WNYC
• Diane Arbus: A Rare Interview
• Radio Stage: The Theatre of the Air
• Hearing the Subway #1
• Christie R. Bohnsack: WNYC's First Director