[Soldier using portable field radio]
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Photograph
U.S. Army Pictorial Service
estab. 1942
[Soldier using portable field radio]
1945
Dye imbibition print
Image: 20 x 15 cm
Mount: 50.7 x 40.7 cm
1977.0071.0001
Inscriptions recto (typed label): Radio Transmission of Color Photograph / Separation negatives made from a color transparency were sent to Hawaii in 1945, to test feasibility of radio transmission. Each negative was transmitted in turn from Hawaii and recorded as a facsimile negative in the War Department Signal Center in the Pentagon, Washington D.C. Dye transfer prints were made from the transmitted blue, green and red records. Eastman Super XX Panchromatic film was used for separations which were developed to gamma 0.90 in DK50. Type "C" Eastman films developed in DK60a were used at the receiving end. / Photograph by U.S. Army Signal Corps.
verso (typed label): Submitted by Chief, Army Pictorial Service / Office of Chief Signal Officer, War Dept., Room 5A270 The Pentagon, Washington 25, D.C. (R.C. Barrett, Chief, Still Picture Branch.
verso: [Exhibition Label for PSA Exhibition of Photography, Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City, October 8-31, 1947, Third Open Technical Exhibit]
verso (ink): Walter Clark [signature]
verso (pencil): 84 [encircled]
verso (typed label): Submitted by Chief, Army Pictorial Service / Office of Chief Signal Officer, War Dept., Room 5A270 The Pentagon, Washington 25, D.C. (R.C. Barrett, Chief, Still Picture Branch.
verso: [Exhibition Label for PSA Exhibition of Photography, Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City, October 8-31, 1947, Third Open Technical Exhibit]
verso (ink): Walter Clark [signature]
verso (pencil): 84 [encircled]
