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Ada Nye At Radio Set

Date: 1922
Description: Ada Nye (Nemshoff) listening to a crystal radio set at the home of her aunt and uncle Ben and Ida Tovrog. Her cousin Lou Tovrog built the radio set.
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Model C1 Panel Truck

Date: 03 05 1935
Description: Two men are standing at the back of an International Model C1 panel truck owned by Payette's Music House in Aberdeen, Washington. The men are standing with...
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Radio-Controlled Farmall F-30 Tractor

Date: 1931
Description: Operator J.J. Lynch inspects the wiring on a radio-controlled McCormick-Deering Farmall F-30 tractor at a fair.
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Crowd Watches Demonstration of Radio-Controlled Tractor

Date: 1931
Description: Crowd watching a demonstration of a radio-controlled McCormick-Deering Farmall F-30 tractor at an agricultural exhibition or fair.
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Governor and Mrs. Walter J. Kohler

Date: 11 05 1952
Description: Governor Walter J. Kohler, Jr. and Charlotte Kohler, listening to the radio, kept a close tabulation of state and national election returns Tuesday night a...
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Election Night

Date: 11 1948
Description: Governor and Mrs. Oscar Rennebohm in the Governor's Residence, 130 E. Gilman Street, listening to the election returns on the radio. Some of the mansion's...
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Heeb Automotive Equipment Company Building

Date: 1927
Description: The Heeb Automotive Equipment Company building 401 West Gorham Street. They also sold Sparton Radios. Built 1927, the building was bought by the city in 1...
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Heeb Company Warehouse

Date: 1927
Description: An architect's rendering of the Heeb Automotive Equipment Company building, 401 West Gorham Street; Law, Law, and Potter, architects. The building was boug...
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Antenna Inside Radome

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Description: Giant 340 ton antenna inside radome. The housing at the left holds maser and other gear-enabling antenna to send signals up to the satellite and receive fa...
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Testing the Telstar Experimental Satellite

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Description: Three men testing the Bell System's Telstar experimental communications satellite at the Bell Telephone Laboratories before being sent to Cape Canaveral, F...
Drawing

Telstar Satellite First Orbit

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Description: The Bell System Telstar Satellite first orbit showing apogee and perigee.
Drawing

Telstar Orbit

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Description: Depiction of orbit of Telstar satellite when within range of Andover and English ground stations.
Poster

RCA Radiola 64 and Radio Receiver

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Description: Illustration of the RCA Radiola model 64 and a Centralized Radio Receiver, both intended for classroom use.
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Labor Union Party

Date: 02 08 1947
Description: Labor Union party sponsored by the YWCA Industrial Committee. Russell E. Dresser, Meat Cutter Union, Oscar Mayer, Bessie Backlund, Celon Company union, C.B...
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Coin Operated Hotel Radio

Date: 03 07 1947
Description: Coin operated hotel radio operated by a woman.
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Fire Department Mobile Radio Equipment

Date: 09 20 1947
Description: First Assistant Fire Chief Patrick J. Brown with microphone, and Fireman Grant Prideau receiving radio instructions from Fire Chief Edward J. Page, demonst...
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International Model 63 Truck

Date: 01 23 1926
Description: Two men loading merchandise into the covered bed of an International Model 63 truck operated by the E.B. Latham & Company - "Electrical & Radio Merchandise...
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Window Display Featuring FM Radio Broadcasting

Date: 03 04 1948
Description: Corner window display featuring Zenith Radios and station WIBA advertising the new FM broadcasting service.
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Window Display Featuring FM Radio Broadcasting

Date: 03 04 1948
Description: Window display featuring RCA Victor radios and station WIBA advertising the new FM broadcasting service.
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Reeds Cafe

Date: 10 28 1936
Description: Interior of Reeds Cafe in Elsberry, Missouri. There is a man at the cafe reaching into a 6-can milk cooler. Also shown is the work space behind the counte...

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