Image / Unidentified operator facilitating Wirephoto, Los Angeles, 1934-1935

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Title: Unidentified operator facilitating Wirephoto, Los Angeles, 1934-1935
Date Created and/or Issued: 1934-1935
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
An unidentified man twists a screwdriver as he peers at the machine through a device reminiscent of a spyglass.
Photograph appears with the article, "How Perfect Photos Are Flashed Across the Continent," Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec 1934: 30.
Text from negative sleeve: 1150 - Wire Photo Promotion Dept [stamped:] Sep 27 1935
Handwritten on negative: 39/16 Water (Mark) Wire Photo
Text from newspaper caption: Los Angeles operator, with his microscope, makes adjustments on receiving machine, reception of Miss Landi's photograph.
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_7473
ark:/21198/zz002df5jk
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Phototelegraphy
Machinery
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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