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Design for Tube Radio with Center Dial
Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- White molded case vacuum tube radio featuring center pointer dial for tuner, flanked by volume and tuning control knobs. Design is reminiscent of automobile dashboards of the era. Knobs, center dial pointer and bezel feature chrome-like surface. Dial appears to be clear lucite with reverse painting.
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through the gift of Mrs. Edward C. Post
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Date
- ca. 1950
- Accession Number
- 1992-183-3
- Office of
- Anders-Orr & Associates,Inc, Detroit, Michigan, USA
- Client
- Crosley Radio Corporation, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- appliances & tools
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Pastel, some stencilled, brush and white gouache, on tracing paper
- Dimensions
- H x W: 39.1 × 60.4 cm (15 3/8 × 23 3/4 in.)
- made in
- USA
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- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Record ID
- chndm_1992-183-3
- Usage
- Not determined
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