record for vacuum tube training film
Date: circa 1941
Inventory Number: 1996-1-0690
Classification: Record
Subject:
Maker: United States Navy (founded 1775)
User: Noel Charlton Little (born 1895)
User: Naval Training School, Bowdoin College (1941 - 1945)
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Dimensions:
40 × 40 × 0.2 cm (15 3/4 × 15 3/4 × 1/16 in.)
Accessories: brown paper sleeve
Description:
This is a 16 inch black vinyl record in a brown paper sleeve with a light blue label emblazoned with the insignia of the U.S. Navy--an eagle in front of a ship with two stars at each side. This record was used to supplement a Navy training film strip, as indicated on the label, perhaps as a soundtrack.
Signedon label background: NAVY DEPARTMENT / UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Inscribedwritten on the label: SPECIAL PURPOSE VACUUM TUBES / SN-1450g / Produced and distributed under the supervision of / TRAINING FILM SECTION/ PHOTOGRAPHIC DIVISION/BUREAU OF AERONAUTICS / U.S. NAVY/ Washington, D.C.;
scratched into the record: U.S. NAVY CD3MM2623-1A
scratched into the record: U.S. NAVY CD3MM2623-1A
FunctionThis record provides the soundtrack for a U.S. Navy training film.
Historical AttributesWritten on the sleeve: Pre-Radar Training School at Bowdoin College c. 1941 - 1943. Noel C. Little Commanding Officer.
ProvenancePre-Radar Training School, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, c. 1941-1943.
Courtesy of Prof. Elroy LaCasce, Department of Physics, Bowdoin College. Brunswick, Maine. Collected by CHSI on May 14, 1991.
Courtesy of Prof. Elroy LaCasce, Department of Physics, Bowdoin College. Brunswick, Maine. Collected by CHSI on May 14, 1991.