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This exhibition looks at how radio became an indispensable link between Canadians and the nation at home.
The silver metal radio has two ivory-coloured knobs and shows the frequency numbers on the dial. To the left of the radio you see the detached beige and metal coloured loudspeaker box with a cable outlet and an attachment mechanism on its bottom.
The radio sits inside a wooden cabinet with curved front; the speaker across the front is divided into squares and rectangles. The dial display is above the speaker, the volume and frequency dial are on the bottom left and right.
The text on the page has some red highlighted words. The illustration in black and white shows shoppers looking at radios in a department store display window. Title translated from French: Victor… the radio in demand, the popular radio in 1931.
This black and white, landscape-oriented photograph shows a wall section of a living room with armchairs, a floor light, and the radio. On the wall is a framed artwork, on the floor a Persian carpet.
Page from a Reader's Digest Magazine issue in 1948 advertising the Baby Champ radio by Northern Electric. The Baby Champ is illustrated on Santa's shoulders on the righthand side. Text is in French.
A multi-coloured advertisement for a radio features coloured text elements, a photo of the radio on a table with some house decor, the six different colour options of the model and white text on a purple background. Text is in French.
Advertisement in French for five RCA Victor radios of different sizes. Besides text blocks we see a woman standing in a long pink silk gown positioned in the bottom left corner of the page.
The advertisement takes up two pages with a collage-style and a dynamic design of diagonally placed features and text on the center right side contrasting with the rest of the design. The left side shows an orange-white framed illustration of a radio on a decorated table.
Renderings of radio accessories including wooden and metal loudspeakers and headsets were originally printed in dark brown on white paper which has yellowed over time.
A multicoloured illustration from a cover page showing a man writing in front of a radio receiver and an open window looking into a garden.
The radio is inside a large cabinet made of various colours of wood. Above the loudspeaker screen are the two dials, one for the volume and the other to tune the frequency. Higher up is a square dial window.
The radio is contained in a ridged wooden cabinet with dials on the front and the dial display at the top edge.
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