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Photo-Radio Apparatus

National Museum of American History

Object Details

sova.nmah.ac.0055_ref1571
GUID
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ep8c7a73a8d-1f37-4a0f-977e-1d044cc8644c
Collection Creator
Clark, George Howard, 1881-1956
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George H. Clark Radioana Collection
Date
1910-1947
Archival Repository
Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Identifier
NMAH.AC.0055, Series 54
Type
Archival materials
Collection Citation
George H. Clark Radioana Collection, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
Collection Rights
Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
Scope and Contents note
Series 54 contains material on photo-radio apparatus including: photographs of people and apparatus; photographs of facsimile receivers; engineers with radio facsimile receiver-printers; operators preparing to send messages; RCA Facsimile Scanners; Jenkins Radio Weather-Map Transmitters; Jenkins Radio Weather-Map Receivers; and several photographs of Jenkins Photoradio apparatus. Also photographs of Jenkins moving picture devices; transmitting facsimile apparatus of the De Forest Company, 1932; radio transmitters made for Radio News Corporation by De Forest Radio Corporation; RCA bulletins on Radio Facsimile system; a booklet on French Facsimile System; list of Experimental Facsimile Broadcasters; a forty-four page bookl on Synchronized Reproduction of Sound and Scene, 1928; some random tests with a photo-radio transmitter and receiver; a number of newspaper and magazine clippings containing articles and illustrations; affidavits transmitted by photoradio; and some notes on facsimile transmission by the RCA Facsimile Service. See Series L for index to photographs in Bound Volumes. See also series 133.
Collection Restrictions
Collection is open for research but a portion of the collection remains unprocessed and is stored off-site and special arrangements must be made to work with it. Contact the Archives Center for information at [email protected] or 202-633-3270. Gloves must be worn when handling unprotected photographs, negatives, and slides.
NMAH.AC.0055_ref1571
Large EAD
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ep8c7a73a8d-1f37-4a0f-977e-1d044cc8644c
NMAH.AC.0055
ACAH
Record ID
ebl-1562720312231-1562720312466-5

  • George H. Clark Radioana Collection


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