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Photoradio machine
1926
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Title
Photoradio machine
Creator
Hay, R.P.
Date
1926
Identifier
20181026-hpichswp-0114
Source Identifier
MSP_371_B006_F003_I01
Description
A man standing beside a photoradio machine, which was provided by the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) and the Westinghouse Company. A sign displayed next to the machine states that the photoradio receives messages and pictures wirelessly from Paris, London, and New York. Kaufmann's claimed the first public demonstrations of a photoradio machine at their International Exposition of Arts and Industries.
Type
still image
Genre
photographs
Subject
Kaufmann's Department Store.
Radio Corporation of America.
Westinghouse Electric Corporation.
International exhibitions--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
Phototelegraphy.
Geographic Subjects
Downtown (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Source
Kaufmann's Department Store Photographs, c1880-2001, MSP 371, Thomas and Katherine Detre Library and Archives, Senator John Heinz History Center
Contributor
Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
Collection
Kaufmann's Department Store Photographs
Rights Information
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