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Title
[Radio station KNBC]
Date Created and/or Issued
1952
Contributing Institution
California State Library
Collection
California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information
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Description
2018-3264.
Shows radio station studio with Paul Speegle (radio MC), Paul C. Smith (editor & gen mgr Chronicle), George Cameron (publisher Chronicle) and Mayor Roger Lapham of San Francisco. "Jan 10 1952" -- stamped on verso.
Paul Speegle was radio editor for the San Francisco Chronicle; left to become program manager for San Francisco radio station KNBC.
Paul Clifford Smith, born in 1908. Worked as prospector, lumberjack, investment banker managing the New York Anglo-California Bank. Went into newspaper industry as reporter, in 1937 became editor of the San Francisco Chronicle. Was chairman of Crowell Collier Publishing Co. Died in 1976.
George Toland Cameron was born in 1873, died in 1955. Organized the Pacific Oil Transportation Company (built pipe lines), president Santa Cruz Portland Cement Company beginning in 1908; in 1911 president Universal Oil Company; publisher San Francisco Chronicle.
Roger Lapham born in 1883 in New York City. Mayor of San Francisco from 1944-1948. Died in 1966.
Type
image
Format
Unmediated
Sheet
Photographs
Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent
1 photograph : print ; 8 x 10 in.
Identifier
(C)001640187CSL01-Aleph
Language
English
Subject
Smith, Paul Clifford,, 1908--Photographs
Speegle, Paul--Photographs
Cameron, George Toland,, 1873-1955--Photographs
Lapham, Roger Dearborn,, 1883-1966--Photographs
Mayors--California--San Francisco
Newspaper editors--California--San Francisco
Radio stations--California--San Francisco
San Francisco (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Place
California
San Francisco
San Francisco (Calif.)

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