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Lot # 476: 1930's "Birth of the Wire Photo", Photography Innovation that Changed the World

Category: Other Non-Sports

Starting Bid: $25.00

Bids: 15 (Bid History)

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Item was in Auction "December Collectors Auction 2020",
which ran from 12/9/2020 3:00 PM to
12/26/2020 8:00 PM



Collectors of vintage photography are well aware of the term "wire photo", but few realize how this innovation changed the world. Before the advent of this marvel of ingenuity, stories could be rushed to newspapers immediately but sometimes it would take weeks for actual images of the events to reach across the world, or days to reach from coast to coast in America. With the advent of the technology, events like the Hindenburg disaster (one of the first to use the wire technology in large scale) could be seen an hour or two across the globe. Here an Associated Press worker gets the apparatus ready for the next photo to be sent "over the wire". A rare image of photography innovation and offered here for the first time fresh out of a newspaper archive.

Size: 7x9
Designation: Vintage 1
Condition: 4.5/5
Quality: 5/5
Overall Grade: 9.5/10

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