General information

Call No.:

300-1-8:3/67

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. 67

Digital ver. identifier

HU OSA 300-1-8_003-067

Legacy ID

rfe_architecture_067

Date

1955

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

Aerial view of the transmitter station in a field. There are four antenna towers placed as if at the four corners of a rectangle. There is a small building in the center of the rectangle. Paths leading from one tower to the other intersect at this building, and from there a path goes to a fenced compound with several buildings in it. Each of the towers and the small building in the middle are surrounded by a fence. In the background there are small housing estates and woods. Cf. HU OSA 300-1-8:3/81
ORIGINAL CAPTION:
Holzkirchen transmitter: This transmitter at Holzkirchen, Germany, is the largest of Radio Free Europe's 13 outlets and one of the most powerful medium-wave transmitters in the world. Its signal, beamed into Czechoslovakia twenty hours a day, has brought official protests from the angry Communists.

Context

Associated Names

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (Copyright holder)

Associated Places

Munich

Subject / Coverage

Spatial Coverage

Holzkirchen

Germany

Collection Specific Tags

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