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1) Thorn Mayes' article, "America's First Broadcast Station," published in The Antique Radio Gazette, Summer 1983. 2) Newsprint photo of station KQW with caption, "Shown above is a picture of the first radio station in San Jose. Founded in 1909 the call letters for this new station was KQW." (Douglas Perham's original reference copy) (Note: this photograph is part of the Perham Photographic Collection, cataloged under 2003-1) 3) News clippings about the fire that destroyed the San Jose First Baptist Church building that once housed KQW (July 1972) 4) News clipping about demolition of the Wells Fargo Building at FIrst and San Fernando streets, formerly kown as the Garden City National Bank, which housed KQW. (July 1972) 5) Photostat of article from San Jose Mercury, 1910, "Sixty Wireless Stations in Vicinity of San Jose Operated by Young Boys," about the Herrold College of Wireless, with a handwritten note inset that reads "Rear Admiral Hugo Osterhaun Mare Island, Cal. Congratulations from the soldier boy whose gun your honored Father shot in rifle pits at Spanish...Alabama. W. Hawley Postmaster" captioned "Message sent to Mare Island by Ray Newby, breaking record for efficient transmission." (1542.76) 6) Marketing brochure titled "What Price Truth?" published by the Associated Press on the history of the news organization, and the history of broadcast news on the radio. Includes photograph of Herrold's station, with text, "In 1913, Emile Portal and Ken Sanders would occasionally read a news report on Charles Herrold's 250-watt San Jose, California radio station. But most of the day was devoted to playing big-time crooners like Al Jolson, Sophie Tucker, and Mary Garden." 7) Reproduction of Herrold Laboratories advertisement featuring image of Charles Herrold. 8) Reproduction of Herrold patents for Telephone Transmitter (1,165,255) and Oscillator for Wireless Transmission (1,096,717) patented December 21, 1915 and May 12, 1914 respectively. 9) Transcript of an article from The World Metropolitan Section, Sunday August 12, 1923, about Emile Portal's accomplishments as installer of the radio station at the Garden City Bank Building, and vice president of Colin B. Kennedy Corporation. 10) Patent for Telephone-Transmitter by Charles D. Herrold and Emile A. B. Portal, of San Jose, California, patented December 21, 1915.
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Image
Identifier
8355667D-C728-44D7-B4AB-418508133738 2003-33-1960
Subject
Radio stations--California--San Francisco Bay Area--History KQW (Radio station: San Jose, Calif.) Radio broadcasting--California--San Jose Radio stations--California--San Jose Garden City Bank Building (San Jose, Calif.) First Baptist Church (San Jose, Calif.) Fires--California--San Jose--Photographs (LCSH) Inventors Herrold, Charles Mayes, Thorn L Newby, Ray Portal, Emile A
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