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This exhibition looks at how radio became an indispensable link between Canadians and the nation at home.
Black and white photograph of the interior of a studio with a platform for musicians in the background. Three microphones cover the room. There are more music stands and a baby grand piano in corner.
The radio is housed in a large wooden cabinet and shown with its right door open. The large speaker takes up the lower half. Theradio dial takes the space on the front right corner.
The black and white print shows the RCA logo, lists the company and models and purpose of the page, two photographs of the radio models and at the bottom of the page the electrical specifications.
Book cover in beige and dark red. The small illustration below the title shows a man working on a radio.
A grey and black small hard paper card with text and a drawing in the centre of a cabinet like radio. Text is in French.
The tube tester is oriented like a chair: the green bottom section is flat and contains many receptacles to test tubes. The back is white and has a horizontal display for advertisement.
The ad in black, white and red shows a man and women listening to a radio in the top half to the left . On the right, a man beside a radio reaches up to plug the wire into a light socket. In the middle of the page, a receiving set figures more prominently. At the bottom of the page, two more radios are shown under some text.
The large speaker horn, as seen from the front, is attached to a small but heavy, square metal base.
In a red and white checkered design, the ad depicts various loudspeakers, headphones and transformers.
Multicoloured print with a large black square as background for two drawings. The first is the family listening to the radio. A game is illustrated behind the family scene as a horizontal band. Text and images of radios are below the square.
The three-colour print illustration in red, blue and black shows a woman in the foreground. A conductor, a hockey player, a dancing woman with a musician, a clown and an actress in costume form the middle ground, overlapping the title of the book.
A radio housed in a wooden cabinet with rounded edges withthe speaker on the left and the dial on the right.
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