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The Hotel Vanderbilt installed a radio phone receiving set, and Mr. E.C. Pickward and his unnamed partner enjoyed a wireless foxtrot in the Della Robbia Room on February 28, 1922.
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The Hotel Vanderbilt installed a radio phone receiving set, and Mr. E.C. Pickward and his unnamed partner enjoyed a wireless foxtrot in the Della Robbia Room on February 28, 1922.
Photo: Library of Congress/Corbis/VCG/Getty Images
“The employees of the Hotel Vanderbilt, N.Y. lined up buying bonds at the booth in the lobby of the hotel. The Hotel men of N.Y. pledged $1,000,000 to the second Liberty Loan.” Oct. 12, 1917
File Unit: Liberty Bonds - Personnel - Solicitations - General, 1917 - 1918. Series: American Unofficial Collection of World War I Photographs, 1917 - 1918. Record Group 165: Records of the War Department General and Special Staffs, 1860 - 1952
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The Hotel Vanderbilt installed a radiophone set, February 28, 1922. This is the new operator, Mollie Culligan. A radiophone was a radio that allowed people to converse.
Photo: Underwood & Underwood via LoC