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Description:: The drawing depicts cities that can receive wirephoto from Los Angeles Times, the network of wires, the switch board, the telephotograver and the receiving machine.
Date:: August 8, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: F.W. Robinson (left) looks at telephotograver while A.V. Kipp (right) points to it.
Date:: August 8, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Photograph appears with the article, "How Perfect Photos Are Flashed Across the Continent," Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec 1934: 30.
Date:: 1934-1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Three men stand near a doorway watching a fourth man who holds a cylinder from a Wirephoto receiving machine (seen sitting on the table).
Date:: January 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: One man stands at left in front of a large three paneled switch board, holding a telephone receiver to his ear. A second man stands at a machine that receives images through wire transmission.
Date:: January 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: One man stands at left in front of a large three paneled switch board, holding a telephone receiver to his ear. A second man stands at a machine that captures and transmits photographic images. An original print photograph has been wrapped around a horizontal cylinder attached to the apparatus. The machine was designed to scan photographs and convert their light and dark tones into signals that are carried over telephone or telegraph wire. The machine at foreground holds a slightly different cylinder than the first, and is likely used to receive images. Here, signals transmitted from other locations would be converted back into light, then recorded on a negative contained inside the cylinder, thus reproducing original photographs sent from any location connected through the wire network.
Date:: January 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph of two technicians operating a machine, possibly the power unit used to run a Wirephoto switchboard and transmitting/receiving machines.
Date:: January 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: One of several related photographs housed in this negative sleeve that document the process of phototelegraphy -the process of transmitting photographic images over telephone wire. Though there were advancements - namely the Telediagraph, the Belinograph, and the Telephotograver (invented by Los Angeles Times managing editor Ralph Trueblood) – the technology left much room for improvement. In the 1930s, the Associated Press began working with Kodak to perfect the technology. On January 1, 1935, the AP sent the first photograph out over its Wirephoto service to 47 affiliated newspapers across the United States.
Date:: January 6, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: One of several related photographs housed in this negative sleeve that document the process of phototelegraphy -the process of transmitting photographic images over telephone wire. Though there were advancements - namely the Telediagraph, the Belinograph, and the Telephotograver (invented by Los Angeles Times managing editor Ralph Trueblood) – the technology left much room for improvement. In the 1930s, the Associated Press began working with Kodak to create a machine that could transmit quality images over wire networks. On January 1, 1935, the AP sent the first photograph out over its Wirephoto service to 47 affiliated newspapers across the United States. The Los Angeles Times documented their contribution to photojournalism while touting the latest innovation in a related article.
Date:: January 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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