Alfred P. Morgan
Recently the wonderful World Radio History site put up a scan of a radio/parts catalog from 1915:
https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Early-Radio-Assorted/Adams-Morgan-New-Jersey-1915.pdf
The Morgan of Adams-Morgan is well known to any kid of the 1960s who was interested in radio and electronics as Alfred P. Morgan, an author of a series of nicely illustrated books for kids. My favorite book of Mr. Morgan's was his: "Adventures in Electrochemistry" - for a while there I was a nickel plating maniac :)
Here is my web page with more stuff about Mr. Morgan: http://wb9kzy.com/apm.htm
Scroll down this World Radio History page for scans of his kids books:
https://worldradiohistory.com/BOOKSHELF-ARH/Bookshelf_Hobbyist.htm
Finally one of my other favorite Morgan books was this:
https://worldradiohistory.com/BOOKSHELF-ARH/A.P.Morgan/The-Boys-Third-Book-of-Radio-and-Electronics-Morgan.pdf
Here is the pictorial from the book of a crystal set (page 104):
Here are a couple of recordings made with that crystal set of WTMJ, 620 kHz in Milwaukee, WI during the 1970s. The post-war version of the Fred Allen Christmas show with the sketch: Santa Claus goes on Strike:
http://wb9kzy.com/grams_intro.mp3
This intro was done by John Grams on WTMJ in Milwaukee, Wisconsin I *think* during the holiday season of 1974. It was recorded with my Magnavox 5" reel-to-reel recorder - you can hear at about 30 seconds into this clip where I flipped the speed from 1 7/8 to 3 3/4 inches per second :) BTW, the verse of Jingle Bells sung in Polish was from this record by Joe Gumin:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54zwSmNfgzg
Billie the Brownie was probably voiced here by Carol Cotter:
a well known radio/TV broadcaster in the Milwaukee and Madison areas of Wisconsin.
Here is the Santa Claus goes on strike clip from the 1948 Fred Allen season.
http://wb9kzy.com/fred_allen_xmas_show_1948.mp3
When I first got on Ebay I purchased many of Alfred Morgan's books, most were library discards well used but a couple were almost pristine. Each time I opened an Ebay parcel with a "new" book it was like taking a short, pleasant trip back to the 1960s.
Best Regards,
Chuck, WB9KZY