Automatic transmitter type 703-A – Antique Wall Art
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(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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Step back in time with Automatic transmitter type 703-A, a historic photograph rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Automatic transmitter type 703-A
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Rather than a telegraph operator working a key, this print shows an automatic transmitter, a machine that read perforated paper tape and sent messages over the wire faster than a person could key them. The photograph was made for N.W. Ayer & Son, an advertising agency that produced publicity images for Western Union. Its estimated date of about 1944 places it during the Second World War, when telegraph traffic was heavy. Pictures like this were meant to show the company's equipment to clients and the public, and they now preserve the look of machinery that newer systems later overtook.
| Created / published | [1944(?)] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1940-1950. |
| Notes | From N.W. Ayer & Son, Inc. No. R-5832. |
| Subjects | Western Union Telegraph Company--Public relations--1940-1950. Telegraph--1940-1950. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,253 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-193148 |
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