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Photoradio machine

1926

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Photoradio machine
  • 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
  • Copyright Not Evaluated. The copyright and related rights status of this Item has not been evaluated. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use.
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