Communications

1970s

90013_OT_13256_Microwave_Antennas

Clip shows assorted antennas in San Francisco during the '70s,…

1970s

90013_OT_11407_Sutro_Tower

Footage shows San Francisco’s famous Sutro Tower in the ’70s…

1970s

90013_22742_Telephone_Operator

Footage shows a young woman, dressed in a uniform, who is sitting at a…

1970s

90016_43654_01_Telephones_for_Deaf

Footage shows people testing cutting-edge '70s technology for the deaf…

1980s

90016_3695_Computer_Chips_02

This clip shows computer chips and their importance to…

1980s

90016_3695_Office_Meetings

Three people are seated around a computer as a woman types and talks. A…

1950s

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Inside a hut in a Mexican village furnished with wood, a white…

1940s

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Asian military soldiers work sending out and decoding telegraph / radio…

1950s, 1940s

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WS of a U.S. Navy ship. LS of U.S. Navy soldiers exiting a ship. There…

1960s, 1950s, 1940s

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MS of a mail clerk emptying a sack of mail. CU of the sack being…

1990s

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MS of a man reading print outs from a fax machine. Black and white…

1990s

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WS of the an early telephone system invented by Alexander Graham Bell…