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This exhibition looks at how radio became an indispensable link between Canadians and the nation at home.
Water coloured, printed illustration below the newspaper title showing a building with a tower touching wires stretched between two poles below a blue cloudy sky and a garden with a fountain in front. A long walkway leads to the door of the radio station.
Close-up of a radio dial, showing the various cities around the world a listener could tune into: Tokyo, London, Panama, Budapest, etc.
Map of North America from the Philco Radio Atlas of the World showing the shortwave radio stations on the continent, 1935.
Double-sided map with the water shown in light blue, the continents in light yellow and red lines for the indication of the radio stations.
A warm-coloured wood casing holds this radio, while only the clock dial is visible in the top part of this tall furniture piece.
The black and white advertisement has three columns. The left column shows a woman in a long light-coloured gown and two well-dressed men, all three looking to the left. On the right is a rendering of a clock radio, the middle column has text interspersed with two round illustrations of details of the radio.
This radio is housed in a shiny wooden cabinet enhanced with vertically oriented decor. The dials are near the bottom. Some cloth and an Art Deco stepped design covers the speaker and continues on either side.
The contemporary colour photograph shows the room with radio broadcasting equipment in a u-shaped setup.
Housed in wood laminate with horizontal metal trims. The radio has a horizontally rounded front edge on the left side and a vertically rounded top edge on the right side.
Wooden radio cabinet with rounded, tapering shape. A simple, incised, arabesque-like line enlivens the front of the cabinet and encapsulates the punched-out ornament that reveals the light brown grille cloth. Below this ornament, in the centre of the front panel, is a metallic dial with the name Philco inscribed on it. Below the dial is a large wooden knob and below that, equidistant apart, are two smaller wooden knobs.
The horizontally oriented cream-white radio has two round dials with brass finishing that hide the perforated openings of the speakers. Two knobs are below each dial.
Wooden console radio set with large, oval dial above the textile screen of the loudspeaker opening. Three slender wood columns protect the textile screen.
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