General information

Call No.:

300-1-8:5/53

Part of series

HU OSA 300-1-8 Records of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Research Institute: General Records: Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty Public Affairs Photographic Files

Located at

Archival photo box #5 / No. 53

Digital ver. identifier

HU OSA 300-1-8_005-053

Legacy ID

rfe_visit_053

Date

1975

Level

Item

Primary Type

Still image

Language

English

Notes

The black and white prints of RFE/RL were donated to OSA by the Hoover Institute, California in year 2015. The images are duplicates of those held at Hoover. The originals, and most probably the negatives are with the donor as well. OSA only received the paper prints with captions, and digitized the entire collection in year 2018.

Content

Form/Genre

Photograph

Contents Summary

Cf. HU OSA 300-1-8:5/55, HU OSA 300-1-8:5/56
ORIGINAL CAPTION:
Munich, Germany -- Mrs. Anna Gear, President of the American Legion Auxiliary, examines a compilation of news and commentary broadcasts by Soviet and East European radios during a visit to the Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Monitoring Department in January. Right is her husband, Mr. Thomas Gear and left, William G. Mahoney, RFE/RL Information Officer. RFE/RL monitors communist area broadcasting round-the-clock. Radio Free Europe broadcasts to Eastern Europe in six major languages of that area. Radio Liberty broadcasts to the Soviet Union in 15 languages of that country, including Russian.

Context

Associated Names

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (Copyright holder)

Associated Places

Munich

Subject / Coverage

Spatial Coverage

Munich

Germany

Collection Specific Tags

charitable foundation, Crusade for Freedom, Iron curtain, man, monitoring, Radio broadcasting, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, woman