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Hotel Vanderbilt installs radiophone set - here's the new operator – Historic Print

Hotel Vanderbilt installs radiophone set - here's the new operator, 1922 February 28. — historic photograph
Hotel Vanderbilt installs radiophone set - here's the new operator, 1922 February 28.. Historic photograph from the Taverns & Saloons 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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A window into the past: Hotel Vanderbilt installs radiophone set - here's the new operator, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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The title announces that the Hotel Vanderbilt in New York had installed a radiophone set and introduced its new operator, a woman, at a time when wireless telephony was still a novelty. In early 1922, radio was just moving from amateur and military use toward public broadcasting, and hotels were among the first businesses to offer guests radio reception. The picture comes from Underwood & Underwood, a New York news and portrait photography firm that supplied press images in the 1920s. It records both a new technology and the growing number of women taking technical jobs in urban workplaces.

Created / published1922 February 28.
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePortrait photographs 1920-1930.Photographic prints 1920-1930.
NotesTitle from item. No. 316692. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood, N.Y.
SubjectsVanderbilt Hotel (New York, N.Y.)--People--1920-1930. Radio broadcasting--1920-1930. Radios--1920-1930. Women--Employment--New York (State)--New York--1920-1930.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,289 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-210097

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