Genre: drawings (visual works) and cellulose nitrate film / Location: Los Angeles (Calif.) / Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: One of several related photographs housed in this negative sleeve that document the process of phototelegraphy -the process of transmitting photographic images over telephone wire. Though there were advancements - namely the Telediagraph, the Belinograph, and the Telephotograver (invented by Los Angeles Times managing editor Ralph Trueblood) – the technology left much room for improvement. In the 1930s, the Associated Press began working with Kodak to perfect the technology. On January 1, 1935, the AP sent the first photograph out over its Wirephoto service to 47 affiliated newspapers across the United States.
Date:: January 6, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Robert Day was born in California, worked in the art department of the Los Angeles Times from 1919-1927 while a student at the Otis Art Institute, and went on to become a cartoonist. Among other accomplishments, he published more than 1800 cartoons in the New Yorker from 1931-1976 and created 8 New Yorker covers.
Date:: June 1921
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: The drawing depicts cities that can receive wirephoto from Los Angeles Times, the network of wires, the switch board, the telephotograver and the receiving machine.
Date:: August 8, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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