Photograph Album of William Edgar Beakes
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content: Beakes, William Edgar
label: Collection Creator
content: Harris, Charles Cohill, 1898- (radio engineer)
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content: Charles Cohill Harris Collection
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content: Box 3, Folder 1-5
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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content: Archival materials
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content: Photographs
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content: Beakes was president of Tropical Radio Telegraph (TRT) Company, a subsidiary of the United Fruit Company from 1939-1943. The scrapbook contains photographs of persons, equipment, and locations related to Beakes' work with the TRT and his work with F. A. Fessenden on the Machrihanish, Scotland test station. Photographs include: Havana, Cuba; New Orleans hurricane destruction (1915) and Mardis Gras; Honduras village images; Cape Gracias, Nicaragua; Santo Marta, Columbia; Scotland; skeet shooting images; Guatemala; and Panama.