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[Mary Texanna Loomis, seated, with her radio apparatus in her radio school] – Vintage Print

[Mary Texanna Loomis, seated, with her radio apparatus in her radio school], c1921. — historic photograph
[Mary Texanna Loomis, seated, with her radio apparatus in her radio school], c1921.. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(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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Mary Texanna Loomis sits among the equipment of her own radio school, a rare image of a woman running a technical training business in the early years of commercial broadcasting. Loomis founded the Loomis Radio School in Washington, D.C., and was known as one of the first women to train operators in wireless telegraphy and radio, a field that was then dominated by men. The photograph was made by Underwood & Underwood, a large studio that supplied news and portrait pictures to newspapers around 1921, when amateur and commercial radio was expanding rapidly across the country.

Created / publishedc1921.
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePortrait photographs 1920-1930.Photographic prints 1920-1930.
NotesCopyright by Underwood & Underwood. No. 14425 RU.
SubjectsLoomis, Mary Texanna. Radios--1920-1930. Radio broadcasting--1920-1930.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,286 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-194575

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