Dana, Homer
Rating
Title
Dana , Homer
Photographer
State College of Washington . Photo Services
Date
1955~
Description
Homer Dana (1890-1970) with first four microphones used by KFAE/KWSC . Dana , along with Hubert Carpenter , founded one of the first education radio stations in the United States . It first went on the air in 1922 as KFAE , changing its name to KWSC in 1926 , and finally to its present name , KWSU , in 1969 (the college changed from WSC to WSU in 1959 , but the change of the station letters took an additional ten years as someone else already held the rights to KWSU). .
Subject
Microphones ; Portrait photographs
Location Depicted
North and Central America--United States--Washington (state)--Whitman county--Pullman
Type
Image
Genre
Photographic prints
Publisher
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries: https://libraries.wsu.edu/masc
Rights Notes
In copyright. Item is in copyright for 120 years from its date of creation.
Identifier
pc004b26fD_dana1959
Source
Is found in PC 4 , WSU Historic Photographs Subject File https://libraries.wsu.edu/masc/finders/pc4.htm at Washington State University Libraries ' Manuscripts , Archives , and Special Collections (MASC) https://libraries.wsu.edu/masc
Digitization
Original photographic prints were scanned in color at 600 dpi on an Epson Expression 10000XL scanner and saved as tiff files. 600 pixel width jpeg files were created from those files using Adobe Photoshop CS2 and uploaded to the CONTENTdm server at the WSU Libraries.
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