Box 2
Container
Contains 16 Results:
Philo T. Farnsworth
File — Box: 2, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents
1 PTF at age 13.
2 PTF and LaVieda Coacher (early girlfriend), school year 1919-1920.
3 “PTF, winter 1925. The world looked pretty dark. Had lost his father and could get no one to listen to his T.V. ideas. Couldn’t even find a job. Finally took a street cleaning job until he could find something better.”
4 PTF working at his desk.
5 PTF holding a...
Dates:
1900-1980
Philo and Pem Farnsworth
File — Box: 2, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents
1 “Pem.” Photo taken by Tom Carskadon in New Hope, New Jersey. 1936-37.
2 Pem and Phil, New Year’s party 1935.
3 Pem and Phil at Laura’s house in San Mateo, CA in early 1948.
4 Pem arranging flowers.
5 Pem and Phil on a chartered fishing boat off Sanbill Island, Florida. 1968.
6 Pem and Phil going over papers in the breakfast room...
Dates:
1900-1980
Farnsworth family
File — Box: 2, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents
1 Philo and Phil with Philo’s puppy. Cresheim Valley Road, PA.
2 Philo at age 9 at the dam site in Fort Wayne. 1939.
3 Image of Kenny taken from 1932 movie film – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
4 Phil making a wooden whistle for his six year old son Philo.
5 PTF with his third son Russell Seymore (Skee). 1935, Philadelphia. Duplicate see...
Dates:
1900-1980
Fishing
File — Box: 2, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents
1 “Philo T. Farnsworth – on vacation trip in Northern Maine washing the windshield, 1938. George Everson arranged to visit the property in Maine – Needed to get vacations spot.”
2 1953 Green River fishing trip, PTF and “Tex” Pervis.
3 1953 Green River Trip, Pem with her catch.
4 PTF fishing in Maine.
5 PTF rowing boat and fishing on Lake...
Dates:
1900-1980
Farnsworth homes
File — Box: 2, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents
1. Farnsworth home in Brownfield, Maine. Rebuilt 200 year old farm house on the left and new wing on the right showing Phil’s study above and the heated swimming pool beneath – the center in the living room built around the hand hewn hardwood beams that was once the shed. In foreground is Phil on left with a neighbor, on the right is Phil’s brother Carl preparing to launch a clay bird for Phil to shoot down. The...
Dates:
1900-1980
Speeches, Interviews, and Awards
File — Box: 2, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents
1 PTF speaking to electrical engineers in San Francisco while there for the official opening of the television cable link with Los Angeles.
2 PTF being welcomed back to Fort Wayne, 1948. At his right is the President of the Lincoln Bank and Milton Cross, producer of the “Metropolitan Auditions of the Air.” Program sponsored by F.T.R.
3 Phil getting acclaim for presenting tubes to...
Dates:
1900-1980
Rigby High School
File — Box: 2, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents
- 1. Rigby Idaho Jr. High School where PTF attended school between 1919 and 1922. During these years PTF was conceiving ideas for electronic television and also studying relativity.
- 2. Rigby reunion. Front Row: Clyde Ormond, Col. Vernal Sorenson, Pem, Phil, Dr. Aldon Tall and his wife Deoine (?), Idaho 1953.Photo by Clyde Ormond, Rigby, Idaho.
Dates:
1900-1980
Philo T. Farnsworth with Colleagues
File — Box: 2, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents
1 PTF explaining his latest invention to George Everson after talking to the Electric and Electronic Engineers. 1950
2 PTF cornered by Engineers and reporter after talking to San Francisco Electrical Engineers.
3 I. C. Hunter on left, Philo T. Farnsworth on right at presentation of broadcast equipment to Indiana technical college. Names of “tech” men not known, circa 1954.
...
Dates:
1900-1980
Laboratory Personnel
File — Box: 2, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents
1 Mabel Bernstein, PTF’s secretary, and Al Butino, Cliff’s assistant, at lunch time. 127 East Mermaid Lane, 1936.
2 Farnsworth lab “gang” and wives Christmas party, circa 1938.
3 Caption 1: Farnsworth lab group just before leaving for the new and larger facility in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Front Row: B. Ray Cummings, Chief Engineer; PTF, V.P. in charge of Research; Edwin A. Nicholas,...
Dates:
1900-1980
Philo T. Farnsworth demonstrating and working with equipment
File — Box: 2, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents
1 Farnsworth with early television camera. Duplicate see (P0437n01_11_022)
2 PTF with and his Secretary Mabel Bernstein with T.V. camera in front of 127 East Mermaid Lane lab in Philadelphia, 1934. This camera was used in the Franklin Institute demo and later taken to Baird Television in London.
3 PTF and model with T.V. monitor used in Franklin Institute demo 1st showing to open...
Dates:
1900-1980