Hoover calls national radio conference / Photo by Underwood and Underwood. – Historic Photograph Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Hoover calls national radio conference / Photo by Underwood and Underwood.
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The photograph shows Herbert Hoover, then Secretary of Commerce, calling a national radio conference in Washington in October 1926. Hoover had convened these meetings since 1922 because broadcasters were crowding the airwaves and interfering with one another, with no federal authority to sort out frequencies. The conferences pushed Congress toward the Radio Act of 1927, which created the Federal Radio Commission. The print is a press photograph from Underwood and Underwood, a commercial news photo agency that supplied images to newspapers of the era.
| Created / published | 1926 Oct. 7. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Group portraits 1920-1930.Portrait photographs 1920-1930.Photographic prints 1920-1930. |
| Notes | No. 42073 RU. |
| Subjects | Hoover, Herbert,--1874-1964. Meetings--1920-1930. Radio broadcasting--1920-1930. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,254 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-180104 |
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