Broadcast Collection (#8)

MARIAN ANDERSON (1897-1993). American contralto singer. Performing on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. during her open air concert on Easter Sunday, 9 April 1939

TELEVISION STUDIO, 1963. A teaching television studio at the Annenberg School of Communications, University of Pennsylvania. Photograph by Samuel Herman Gottscho in 1963

PRESS CONFERENCE, 1939. NBC announcer Gordon Hittenmark interviewing Federal Communications Commission chairman Frank R. McNinch at a televised press conference in Washington, D.C. 31 January 1939

TV: FRIENDSHIP 7, 1962. Television broadcast showing an animation of the control panel in the Friendship 7 spacecraft, during John Glenns orbit of earth

HERBERT HOOVER (1874-1964). 31st President of the United States. Hoover, as Secretary of Commerce, in a public demonstration of the first inter-city television broadcast, from Washington, D.C

TELEVISION, 1927. Walter S. Gifford, president of AT&T, speaking with President Herbert Hoover during the first public demonstration of inter-city television on 7 April 1927

RADIO SHOW, 1920s. Professor Ambrose Weems and the Cuckoo Program in the early days of radio

OLGA PETROVA (1884-1977). American (English-born) vaudeville star and actress. Madame Petrova broadcasting over Station WJZ, Newark, New Jersey, in the 1920s

The Apostles, Adriaen Collaert, Eduwart van Hoeswinckel, 1582 - 1586

Christ talking to the Apostles, Jan Luyken, Pieter Mortier, 1703

Observation tower and transmitters, Grosser Feldberg mountain, Schmitten, Hesse, Germany, Europe

RADIO STATION, 1916. A wireless radio station tower, Nome, Alaska, 1916

WW2 - Comic Postcard - Listening to Winston Churchill
Churchill: " We Shall never stop, never weary, and never give in." Old Lady to her military officer son/Grandson

American Red Cross, Rainbow Corner. A weekly feature broadcast link between American servicemen based in the UK and their familes back at home in the States - organised by the BBC. Date: circa 1941

An appeal to youth was broadcast by King Zog of Albania from the Royal Palace in Tirana on the 25th Anniversary of Albanian Independence

Queen speaks from Sandringham on Christmas day. HM The Queen seen as she appeared on the television screen during her Christmas Day broadcast from Sandringham. 27 December 1958

Singing to all Britain. Dame Clara Butt, when she sang from the new Chelmsford high power wireless station, opened a new era in broadcasting history. A view of the new station. 31 January 1925

American lawyer and Secretary of Defense, 1968-69. Clifford speaking in a broadcast interview on ABCs Issues
CLARK CLIFFORD (1906-1998). American lawyer and Secretary of Defense, 1968-69. Clifford speaking in a broadcast interview on ABCs Issues and Answers program about U.S

Pre-production Bristol 192 XG454 of 38 Group RAF
Pre-production Bristol 192, XG454, of 38 Group RAF based at Odiham participating in a live outside broadcast on 28 August 1961

Ploughing and harrowing with horses and sowing seed broadcast. In background is a postmill for grinding corn. From French La Nouvelle Maison Rustique 8th edition Paris 1762. Copperplate engraving

Ploughing with oxen, sowing seed broadcast and harrowing. In background agricultural tools are being made from wood. From 18th century edition of Virgil Georgics which followed the agricultural

Farmer sowing seed broadcast. Horses in right backgro Colour-printed wood engraving

Ploughing, rolling and harrowing using horses, sowing seed broadcast and with Abbe Soumilles seed drill (Fig 4). Fig1 is type of plough invented by Jethro Tull

French agriculture. Sowing seed broadcast. From late 18th century edition of La Fontaine Fables Engraving

Crop Rotation: Sowing seed broadcast. In Norfolk 4-course system, wheat planted first year, followed by turnips, then barley often underplanted with grass or grass & clover ley to be used for hay or

Microphone and headphones, artwork F007 / 8444
Microphone and headphones, computer artwork

Microphone and headphones, artwork F007 / 8445
Microphone and headphones, computer artwork

Microphone and headphones, artwork F007 / 8443
Microphone and headphones, computer artwork

Microphone and headphones, artwork F007 / 8442
Microphone and headphones, computer artwork

Microphones, artwork F007 / 8441
Microphones, computer artwork

Diplomat listens to radio broadcast, 1936 C014 / 0523
Diplomat listens to radio broadcast. Chinese Ambassador to the United States adjusting the controls on a radio in Washington DC, USA, as he listens to a speech broadcast from China

Radio station antenna C013 / 9119
Radio station antenna. Antenna used for receiving broadcast signals from Radio Mayak stations installed on satellites. Radio Mayak is a Russian radio broadcasting company

Darwin Centre Live Presentation
Scientist giving a presentation in the Darwin Centre to a live audience

Princess Elizabeths first radio broadcast
Princess Elizabeth gives her first radio broadcast, little sister, Princess Margaret at her side. Talking of the Second World War, she proclaimed, We know... that in the end all will be well

Advert for Kolster-Brandes in expensive radios 1931
KB inexpensive radio, with three range of wave-lengths, short, medium and long. Comes in a walnut cabinet and stand. 1931

Crowds listening to a broadcast of the abdication speech
Crowds listening to radios installed by His Masters Voice outside their offices in Clerkenwell in December 1936 for King Edward VIIIs abdication speech. Date: 01/12/1936

Guglielmo Marconi - Italian Radio Pioneer
Guglielmo Marconi (18741937) - Italian inventor, known as the " Father of long distance radio transmission" and for his development of Marconis law and a radio telegraph system. 1926

Television Mast, Mt Cargill, Dunedin, South Island, New Zealand

Three high school girls in Little Rock, Arkansas, sitting on the floor while learning a school lesson from
ANTI-INTEGRATION, 1958. Three high school girls in Little Rock, Arkansas, sitting on the floor while learning a school lesson from the television at home when the Little Rock schools were closed to

An African American high school girl in Little Rock, Arkansas, learning a lesson from the television at home when
ANTI-INTEGRATION, 1958. An African American high school girl in Little Rock, Arkansas, learning a lesson from the television at home when the Little Rock schools were closed to avoid integration

A high school boy in Little Rock, Arkansas, wearing pajamas while learning arithmetic from the television at home when
ANTI-INTEGRATION, 1958. A high school boy in Little Rock, Arkansas, wearing pajamas while learning arithmetic from the television at home when the Little Rock schools were closed to avoid

American cook and writer. Child photographed c1973 on the set of her television cooking program, The French Chef
JULIA CHILD (1912-2004). American cook and writer. Child photographed c1973 on the set of her television cooking program, The French Chef

35th President of the United States. Addressing a nationwide television audience on the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
JOHN F. KENNEDY (1917-1963). 35th President of the United States. Addressing a nationwide television audience on the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

39th President of the United States. Photographed at the White House during a fireside chat on the Panama Canal Treaty
JIMMY CARTER (1924- ). 39th President of the United States. Photographed at the White House during a fireside chat on the Panama Canal Treaty. Photograph by Marion S. Trikosko, 1 Febuary 1978

HERBERT HOOVER (1874-1964). 31st President of the United States. Hoover, as Secretary of Commerce, in a public demonstration of the first inter-city television broadcast, from Washington, D.C

ORSON WELLES (1915-1985). American director, producer, screenwriter, and actor. Shown broadcasting his famous adaptation of H.G. Wells novel The War of the Worlds, 30 October 1938

GRAHAM McNAMEE (1888-1942). American radio broadcaster. Photographed while reporting from the Democratic National Convention for station WEAF, 1924

WALTER CRONKITE (1916-2009). Walter Leland Cronkite, Jr. American broadcast journalist, best known as anchorman for the CBS Evening News from 1962-81. Photograph, 1972

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