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Please browse the gallery below for all the images related to this exhibit. Select an item to see an enlarged image with the description.
Four large aerial towers and a low station building atop cliffs at a seashore.
A group of men pose for a photo on the steps of a stone building. Young boys in caps, and one dog, watch the event.
Four men set up a large kite on the ground. Behind them are a wooden fence and an old concrete building. In the distance are hilltops and the ocean.
A man in a checked jacket and hat sits at a table topped by wireless equipment. Behind him are bare cupboards with no doors, and a metal stove and stovepipe.
A young man with a moustache, wearing a suit jacket, sits posed for a formal portrait, his left hand beneath his chin.
A tall aerial tower on flat coastal rocks, with a rainbow.
A man in a suit sits facing the camera beside a desk topped by wireless equipment and neat piles of paper. He wears a set of wired headphones and smokes a pipe.
A horizontal red rectangle features the Union Flag and the Great Seal of Newfoundland.
A newspaper article titled “To Dismantle Cape Ray Wireless Station.” The text reads: “Evidently the wireless station at Cape Ray is unnecessary or not a paying affair, as it is the intention of the Marconi people to dismantle it. Captain John Barushett, the well known mariner of Grand Bank, Newfoundland, arrived here recently, and will await the arrival of the necessary apparatus with which to take down the plant at the Newfoundland promontory, when he will proceed to Port aux Basques where he will secure the necessary help to finish the work. The apparatus will then be forwarded to the Pacific Coast, where it will be installed by the Marconi Company. The dismantling of the Cape Ray plant will mean much more work for the North Sydney wireless station, which will now handle all reports from the Gulf. --North Sydney Herald.”
A modern grey house with dormer windows in the roof and a wraparound porch sits on open land near the ocean.
A map of the coast of Labrador from the Gulf of St. Lawrence to Hopedale and including Newfoundland’s Great Northern Peninsula. Labelled in French. Dots along the coast are Marconi wireless stations.
A printed telegram form from Guglielmo Marconi to Alexander Graham Bell. The handwritten message reads, “Sorry, cannot accept your kind invitation as it is essential that site should be on ocean. Hope soon to have the pleasure of thanking you in person for your generous offer. Marconi.”
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