Title from caption on object: “T.V. Robot”, August 25, 1961

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Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 24.4 × 17.2 cm (9 5/8 × 6 3/4 in.)

sheet: 25.4 × 20.6 cm (10 × 8 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

Accession Number

2018.177.439

Artists / Makers

Unknown, 20th Century (artist)

Keystone Press Agency (publisher)

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Inscription

on verso, upper center printed in purple ink perpendicular: KSE42039; center left printed in purple ink on applied paper perpendicular: 25-8-61 / T.V. ROBOT - ON SHOW AT BERLIN RADIO SHOW... / This "Television Robot" - made by a / German radio factory is the greatest attraction at the / German Radio and Television Display and Phono / Exhibition now being held in the Berlin Fairgrounds.. / Visitors will see themselves on the TV screen in / centre - the pictures being transmitted via a camera / concealed in the head of the robot.. / JSS/KEYSTONE 42/734500.; center right Keystone Press copyright stamp in blue ink perpendicular; center right Keystone Press copyright stamp in red ink perpendicular

Provenance

Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Solomon, Dan and Mary