Frank Cyrus Carman photograph collection, 1950-1980s

Overview of the Collection

Title
Frank Cyrus Carman photograph collection
Dates
1950-1980s (inclusive)
Quantity
1 box
Collection Number
P0498
Summary
The Frank Cyrus Carman photograph collection deals mostly with newscast and television technology from the 1950s and 1960s.
Repository
University of Utah Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library
University of Utah
295 South 1500 East
Salt Lake City, UT
84112-0860

Telephone: 8015818863
special@library.utah.edu
Access Restrictions

Twenty-four hour advanced notice encouraged. Materials must be used on-site. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law.

Languages
English

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

The collection deals mostly with newscast and television technology from the 1950s and 1960s.

Use of the CollectionReturn to Top

Restrictions on Use

The library does not claim to control copyright for all materials in the collection. An individual depicted in a reproduction has privacy rights as outlined in Title 45 CFR, part 46 (Protection of Human Subjects). For further information, please review the J. Willard Marriott Library's Use Agreement and Reproduction Request forms.

Preferred Citation

Collection Name, Collection Number, Box Number, Folder Number. Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, The University of Utah.

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Arrangement

Collection arranged topically.

Related Materials

See also the Frank Cyrus Carman audio-visual collection (A0507) located in the Multimedia Division of Special Collections.

See also the Frank Cyrus Carman papers (ACCN 1004) located in the Manuscripts Division of Special Collections.

Processing Note

Processed by Ashley Arave in 2004.

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

Container(s) Description
Box Folder
1 1 Luncheon honoring Carmen, Miscellaneous
  • 1: "Des" Desmond Barker at club podium presenting award to Carmen.
  • 2-7: Mingling at luncheon
  • 8: Des Barker
  • 9: Don Ware, Harris and Lowe Advertising Agency, left at Ad Club Luncheon honoring Carmen.
  • 10: unidentified
  • 11-18: Giving and Accepting the Award
  • 19: unidentified group of children in front of a Christmas tree.
  • 22-21: at the Luncheon
1 2 KLUB
  • 1: "KLUB News Center is equipped with complete broadcast facilities, including a battery of tapes for 'telephonics.' Monitors bring police, sheriff, highway patrol, fire and other emergency calls to the KLUB News Center. All KLUB 570 newscasts originate in the KLUB NEWS CENTER."
  • 2: radio transmitter tower
  • 3: KUTA Salt Lake City, Ut Composite 250/100 watt transmitter.
  • 4: "No less than half a dozen 'staff cars' are equipped with mobile short-wave equipment. Frank C. McIntyre, director of operations, checks antenna on one such installation."
  • 5: "A 'rugged' news unit, capable of getting off the main highways into the 'back-country' - almost anywhere news is made. Complete with mobile broadcast facilities portable tapes plus independent power supplies."
  • 6: "Showmanship, too! The KLUB News Center is the ONLY 'street level' newsroom in the Salt Lake - Ogden - Provo market! Newsroom faces a busy street on Salt Lake=s RADIO-TV ROW."
  • 7: "A full-time professional staff is supplemented by many other news-conscious staffers who are always ready to drop 'routine' and help cover news. Jim Hamlett KLUB 570's production manager leaves studios to cover a story."
1 3 KISN Equipment
  • 1: Billboard with 'KISN97 Music Radio' Dec. 1982
  • 2: 'Rear entrance to main bldg. KISN back up satelite is on the left. KSL back up but wings'
  • 3: 'NW Corner of Main Tower and now non-exist back up tower'
  • 4: 'Jampro Tower'
  • 5: 'Old delta and kitchen of main building.'
  • 6: 'tram room.'
  • 7: 'Bonk, our main trans.'
  • 8: 'Us on the left (KSL) Dale Williams on the right, KISN back up behind Del. Beside Del in main.'
  • 9: transmitter room, 1979
  • 10: 'KSL RF switcher and Harmonic filters for TV.'
  • 11: 'Read exit KISN main and Aux on left KSFI on right.'
  • 12: transmitter room
  • 13: 'Input ports to diplexer, these are the tuned cavities.'
  • 14: 'Back up generator'
  • 15: 'KISN Main transmitter'
  • 16: 'KSFI on left, KISN on right. Looking from back doors into KSL tool room.'
  • 17: 'Stairwell going from out transmitter to the diplexer. The coax on the right upper is ours.'
  • 18: 'Our antenna switch'
  • 19: '?'
  • 20: 'KISN transmitter and control rack.'
1 4 Farnsworth statue reception
  • Envelope of negatives reads: "Pete - you may want to put this under Tim Larson, that's where I'm putting brochure - or communicator. This event was held spring 1988. Reception, Governor's Mansion, Salt Lake city for statue of Philo T. Farnsworth, to be placed in U. S. Capital building."
  • 1 : Professor Robert Avery and Pem Gardner Farnsworth
  • 2 : Professor Tim Larson and Pem Gardner Farnsworth
  • 3 : The 18" statue by James Richard Avati
  • 4 : Pem Gardner Farnsworth with statue of Philo
  • 5 : Pem Gardner Farnsworth with statue of Philo
  • 6 : Pem Gardner Farnsworth with statue of Philo
  • 7 : Professor Tim Larson, Pem Gardner Farnsworth, statue by James Richard Avati
  • 8 : Professor Tim Larson, Pem Gardner Farnsworth, statue by James Richard Avati
  • 9 : Pem Gardner Farnsworth, Mary Dickson, Professor Tim Larson near the statue by James Richard Avati
  • 10 : Mary Dickson, Pem Gardner Farnsworth, Professor Robert Avery near the statue by James Richard Avati
  • 11 : Professor Robert Avery, Kent M. Farnswroth, and Pem Gardner Farnsworth with statue of Philo
  • 12 : Kent M. Farnsworth (son), Pem Gardner Farnsworth, and James Richard Avati (sculptor to do life size statue to be put in hall, U. S. Capital Building, Washington D. C.) at Governor's Mansion
  • 13 : Pem Gardner Farnsworth, and James Richard Avati with sculpture of Philo
  • 14 : unknown, unknown, Norman Bangerter (Governor), Pem Gardner Farnsworth, and James Richard Avati with sculpture of Philo
  • 15 : Norman Bangerter (Governor), Pem Gardner Farnsworth, and James Richard Avati with culpture of Philo
  • 16 : Norman Bangerter (Governor) and Pem Gardner Farnsworth with sculpture of Philo

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

  • Radio broadcasters--Utah
  • Radio broadcasting--Utah--History--Photographs

Personal Names

  • Carman, Frank Cyrus, 1909-1989--Photographs

Corporate Names

  • KLUB (Radio station: Salt Lake City, Utah)
  • KUTA (Radio station: Salt Lake City, Utah)

Form or Genre Terms

  • Photographic prints
  • Portrait photographs

Finding aid created by Ashley Arave.
2004 (last modified: 2018)

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