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Adolf Slaby by Nicola Perscheid

Operator and installer, United Wireless Station PE, Portland, OR

Lewis M. Clement, SGP-153, in 1916

“Sixth District Radio Police” From the 1924 Pacific Radio Exposition

 

Capt. Almon A. Gray, USNR (Ret.), 810-P

 

Max Kearns, 1468-SGP served on the Coast Guard Cutter Itasca in the early 1930s. Here he is in Hawaii…

Max Kearns, SGP-1468

Around 1933-4 he served on the cutter Northland, and spent time up in Alaska, where he took some particularly good photos of the Inuit (Eskimos) who lived there. Most of these were taken near Pt. Barrow in 1934.

 

 

 

Cmdr. Richard Johnstone, First President of SoWP

WSAX First Broadcast of Lion’s Roar, LA, 1925: “RHGM scared, in foreground”

RHG Mathews at His Station, 9ZN, Chicago, 1921

The Men and Women of CAA Station KSF in 1945

Another View of KSF in 1945

Operators at San Francisco CAA Station KSF in March 1945

WFK, Ann Arbor RR, Franklin, MI in 1927 with Geo P. Honold at Controls

KFRC San Francisco, 1920s, with Harold Peery at Controls

 

Dr. Lee DeForest, inventor of the triode.

 

Pickerill, Tamborino, Green, Bollendonk, Engelder, Underhill, SS Leviathan, 1923

 

Jack Irwin Aboard the Leviathan

 

Kasner Aboard the Leviathan

 

Purington Aboard the Leviathan

 

Don Shaw Aboard the Leviathan

 

Henry F. Bollendonk Aboard the Leviathan

 

George Sinclair Aboard the Leviathan. Now there’s one happy guy!

 

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