Microphone
date: label: date made
content: ca 2007
name: label: maker
content: Motorola
notes: label: Description
content: Machinery noise on the fish deck can be deafening, and voices can get lost, no matter how loud. To make sure a message gets communicated and received, the deckhands carry radio microphones. While the radio itself is carried in a fanny pack, the microphone is clipped to the deck hand’s clothing so he can speak directly into it.
label: Description
content: This microphone was worn clipped to the life vest of a deckhand working aboard the catcher-processor <I>Alaska Ocean</I> in the summer of 2007. He used it for communicating with the wheelhouse and other deckhands.
label: Description
content: The <I>Alaska Ocean</I> is a 376-foot-long vessel in the Seattle-based catcher-processor fleet. Workers catch, process, package, and freeze groundfish—mostly pollock and Pacific whiting—in the Bering Sea and in the waters off the coast of the Pacific Northwest.
topic: label: Subject
content: Fishing
label: Subject
content: National Guard
label: Subject
content: Fishing
label: related event
content: Contemporary United States
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content: Work and Industry: Maritime
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content: Work
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content: Communications
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content: Industry & Manufacturing
label: Exhibition
content: On the Water
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: National Museum of American History. On the Water exhibition website
label: Related Web Publication
content: http://americanhistory.si.edu/onthewater
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Alaska Ocean through Jeff Hendricks
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2007.0178.05
label: catalog number
content: 2007.0178.05
label: accession number
content: 2007.0178
objectType: label: Object Name
content: microphone
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/2 in x 2 1/2 in x 25 1/2 in; 3.81 cm x 6.35 cm x 64.77 cm