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Niles Trammell

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Description: Studio head and shoulders portrait of Niles Trammell.
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John Royal's Office Door

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Description: View outside John Royal's office door. There are milk bottles and newspapers piled at the door and on it hangs a sign that reads "Out As Usual".
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Chet Huntley with Equipment

Date: 1956
Description: Chet Huntley, manning a portable television unit, for coverage of 1956 political conventions.
Postcard

TV Dealership Rarick's Hardware

Date: 12 06 1956
Description: View across street toward Rarick's Hardware, a color television dealer. A group of people are posing on the sidewalk in front of the show windows. A truck ...
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Sylvester "Pat" Weaver

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Description: Candid portrait of Sylvester "Pat" Weaver, father of Sigourney Weaver, wearing a pinstripe suit and horn-rimmed eyeglasses, in his office.
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Woman Peeling Potatoes in front of TV

Date: 1956
Description: "All To Myself" brochure for the NBC Matinee Theater with a woman sitting front of the television peeling potatoes with her shoes off. There is an outline ...
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Eisenhower with David and Robert Sarnoff and Pat Weaver

Date: 1954
Description: Dwight Eisenhower stands with David Sarnoff, Robert Sarnoff and Sylvester "Pat" Weaver.
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NBC Camera Man

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Description: A U.N. war correspondent is shown filming with a news camera next to an NBC Television Newsreel vehicle.
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John Cameron Swayze

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Description: Studio head and shoulders portrait of John Cameron Swayze, pioneering news commentator for NBC.
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Lawrence Spivak

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Description: Studio portrait of Lawrence Spivak.
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United Nations Security Council Meeting

Date: 1946
Description: Filming by NBC of the United Nations security council meeting at Hunter College.
Photograph

Robert Sarnoff, David Sarnoff and Pat Weaver

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Description: Robert Sarnoff, David Sarnoff and Sylvester "Pat" Weaver wearing suits, seated at a table.
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The Quick and The Dead Handbill

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Description: Handbill advertising The Quick and The Dead, described as "an exciting documentary series on the atomic bomb starring Bob Hope as Mr. Average Citizen." It ...
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Campaign '72

Date: 1972
Description: Two-sided, quarter-fold advertisement for a ten filmstrip program about the 1972 presidential election. The outside is the promotional information. The ins...

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