WERS control room, 1949. Two turntables and a microphone.

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WERS control room, 1949. Two turntables and a microphone.

Title: WERS control room, 1949.

Title: Two turntables and a microphone.

Record Type: radio studios

Record Type: radio stations

Record Type: turntables (sound device component)

Record Type: microphones

Record Type: mass media

Record Type: photography (discipline)

Record Type: photographs

Record Type: black-and-white photographs

Date: 1949

Description: Two smartly-dressed young men in a room before a large glass window. One sits at a small table. He appears to be reading copy into a single tabletop microphone. The other sits behind a larger desk built around audio equipment. He's got two turntables and a microphone. Two turntables and a microphone. In 1949, the Broadcasting Division received FCC approval for an educational broadcasting license; Emerson’s student-operated radio station WERS went on the air for the first time with 10 watts power.

Extent: 8 x 10 in.

Collection: RG 004.05 Office of Communication & Marketing Prints and Negatives Collection

Location: Emerson College Archives and Special Collections

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Language: English

Identifier: batch4_011a.jpg

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