(TELEVISION) An archive of approximately 100 photographs and

Sale 2393 - Lot 282

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Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500

(TELEVISION)
An archive of approximately 100 photographs and other memorabilia related to the development of television, including many photographs related to RCA (the Radio Corporation of America). With images of their transmitters, machines, towers, antennae, employees, and NBC recording studios, primarily in New York and Long Island, but also with images of offices and plants in California and Montreal. Silver prints, in sizes from 5 1/4x3 1/4 to 8x10 inches (13.3x8.3 to 20.3x25.4 cm.), and the reverse, some mounted, many with captions, notations or hand stamps on verso. 1950s-60s

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with--Correspondence related to the development of television, including lettters, newspaper articles, price lists, and a book titled "I Saw That," about the 1939 New York World's Fair.

RCA was at the forefront of the expansion of television throughout the first half of the 20th century. The company demonstrated an all-electronic television system at the 1939 New York World's Fair, and developed the United States' first television test pattern. In the same year, the company began regular experimental television broadcasting from the NBC studios to the New York metropolitan area from a transmitter on the Empire State Building and began selling their first television set models in various New York stores.

World War II slowed the development of commercial television in the States, but in 1953, RCA's all-electronic color TV technology became the standard for American color TV.