Title from caption on object: “Reception with Adapter”, 1950

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Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 10.5 × 21.2 cm (4 1/8 × 8 3/8 in.)

sheet: 18.1 × 22.8 cm (7 1/8 × 9 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

Accession Number

2018.177.633

Artists / Makers

American 20th Century (artist)

ACME Newspictures (publisher)

Newspaper Enterprise Association (NEA) (publisher) est. 1902

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Inscription

on verso, by unknown hand, top right in graphite inverted: A7881; center stamped in blue ink inverted: REF. DEPT. / 1-5 '51 / N.E.A.; bottom center printed in purple ink on applied paper inverted: C-10977 (3 OF 3) FROM: CHICAGO BUREAU / RECEPTION WITH ADAPTER / CHICAGO: CLEAR PICTURE SHOWS IMPROVEMENT IN RE- / CEPTION WHEN PHONEVISION ADAPTER IS PLUGGED INTO / TV SET. [underlined in graphite] 300 CHICAGOANS WILL RECEIVE SPECIAL TV / PROGRAMS VIA TELEPHONE CIRCUITS IN 90-DAY TEST / TO DETERMINE POPULARITY OF PHONEVISION. / (LIST 1 & 2) (WITH C-10975-6) / (ACME PHOTO) 12/27/50 6:15 PCS JNG/TS

Provenance

Catherine Ryan [?]; Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Solomon, Dan and Mary