General information

Call No.:

300-1-8:3/26

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 #3 / No. 26

Digital ver. identifier

HU OSA 300-1-8_003-026

Legacy ID

rfe_architecture_026

Date

1965

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

A bird's-eye view of a compound fenced with barbed wire. The photo is taken from high up on an antenna tower. On the ground there are several trailers, tool sheds, some vehicles. Around the compound is barren fields. In the left upper corner there is a stretch of a water channel and a farm building.
ORIGINAL CAPTION:
Radio Free Europe's Mobile Transmitter Installation near Cham, Germany, a few miles from the Czechoslovak-German border. The station, which has 50,000 Watts, is set up to circumvent communist jamming of Radio Free Europe Broadcasts to five countries behind the Iron Curtain.

Context

Associated Names

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (Copyright holder)

Associated Places

Munich

Subject / Coverage

Spatial Coverage

Cham

Germany

Collection Specific Tags

antenna, broadcasting equipment, Cold War, jamming, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, transmission