Remco crystal radio receiver
date: label: date made
content: ca 1923
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Remco crystal radio receiver from the Palmer School of Chiropractic. Tag on front" Remco / Radio / Apparatus / Radio Equipment & Mfg. Co. / Davenport, Iowa." Advertisement printed on bottom for the Palmer School of Chiropractic, Radiophone station WOC, Davenport, Iowa, includes instructions that unit is not to be sold but is being given away for free. A plastic cover has been placed over the message. That has preserved the message but obscures the first few lines. Once the cover is cleaned, the lines should be legible.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Partial transcription:
label: Description (Brief)
content: "... expressing your impression after you / have "listened in." Your message will then be passed on in / radio to the kind persons who made its purchase possible. / This outfit is not to be sold. / You may keep it as long as you have need of it, but when / you have finished with it return it to the address below, / that some other worthy person may have the benefits you / may have derived from it. / The Palmer School of Chiropractic / Radiophone station WOC / Davenport, Iowa, U.S.A."
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from Franklin Wingard
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.241556.205
label: accession number
content: 241556
label: catalog number
content: 241556.205
objectType: label: Object Name
content: radio receiver
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/2 in x 4 1/2 in x 4 1/4 in; 8.89 cm x 11.43 cm x 10.795 cm