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.
Website Maintenance
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