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John M. Baldwin photograph collection, 1940-1949

Overview of the Collection

Collector
Baldwin, John M., 1905-1979
Title
John M. Baldwin photograph collection
Dates
1940-1949 (inclusive)
Quantity
496 photographs
Collection Number
P0009
Summary
The John M. Baldwin photograph collection contains portraits of John M. Baldwin, mostly with associates in television, and photgraphs documenting equipment and activities at KDYL-TV in Salt Lake City. There are also photographs documenting the construction of transmission facilities for KDYL-TV in Utah and of television facilities in various parts of the United States and South America.
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
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Content Description

This collection consists of personal and business photographs of John Baldwin, an engineer who designed radio stations and towers. This includes many towers and stations in Utah as well as overseas in South America and Asia.

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Use of the Collection

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.

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Administrative Information

Arrangement

The collection is arranged topically.

Processing Note

Processed by Mark Evans in 1987 and Ashley Arave in 2003.

Related Materials

For more information on Baldwin's career see the papers of Sidney S. Fox (MS 0559). Other photographs of Baldwin are available in the collection of Sidney S. Fox (P0041).

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Detailed Description of the Collection

  • Personal and Business Photographs

    • Description: John Baldwin

      • 1-13: Portraits of John Baldwin

      Container: Box 1, Folder 1
      Location: Personal and Business Photographs
    • Description: Baldwin with others

      • 14: (L to R) Sidney S. Fox, Harry Gobub and John Baldwin in main control room KDYL-TV
      • 15-22: John Baldwin and Sidney S. Fox
      • 23: John Baldwin (2nd from right) Sidney S. Fox (middle) speaking to a TV audience
      • 24: John Baldwin and Sidney S. Fox with crew by Van
      • 25: Camera crew and Servicemen in the old playhouse circa 1930s
      • 26: Group of men
      • 27: Marie and John M. Baldwin
      • 28: John Baldwin speaking to an audience
      • 29-30: John M. Baldwin, technical director and Vice President of KDYL and C. L. Stockdale, right, adjust television equipment in KDYL workshop
      • 31: Engineers and wives, Christmas Party, 1945
      • 32: Associates of KDYL-TV Studio
      • 33: KDYL associates on KDYL transmitter construction site
      • 34-37: Associates
      • 38: Calhoun Beach Hotel Meeting, WTCN Minneapolis
      • 39-40: Time Life Inc. Associates
      • 41-42: Time Life Engineers, Christmas party, Denver, December, 1962
      • 43-46: Family and Friends

      Container: Box 1, Folder 2
      Location: Personal and Business Photographs
    • Description: KDYL-TV

      • 47: Fairgrounds TV exhibit, 1940
      • 48: Test Screen
      • 49-52: Transmitter Tower on Walker Bank, circa 1946
      • 53: Electronic equipment
      • 54-57: Laboratory
      • 58-63: Transmitter equipment
      • 64-73: Radio and TV Studios and offices
      • 74: Tight rope walker above KDYL studio building
      • 75: TV control room
      • 76-80: Broadcast events
      • 81: Artist drawing of KDYL/TV.AM studio building remodeling
      • 82-83: KCPX-4 Studio building (formally KDYL)

      Container: Box 1, Folder 3
      Location: Personal and Business Photographs
    • Description: Aerial View of Transmitter Site

      • 84-88: Aerial Views of KDYL mountain transmitter site

      Container: Box 1, Folder 4
      Location: Personal and Business Photographs
    • Description: Transmitter Construction

      • 89-110: KDYL mountain transmitter construction

      Container: Box 1, Folder 5
      Location: Personal and Business Photographs
    • Description: Transmitter and Building

      • 111-141: KDYL mountain transmitter and building

      Container: Box 1, Folder 6
      Location: Personal and Business Photographs
    • Description: Cedar City TV Translator

      • 142-172: Cedar City TV translator

      Container: Box 1, Folder 7
      Location: Personal and Business Photographs
    • Description: WTCN-TV Minneapolis, Minn.

      • 173-183: Transmitter and buildings

      Container: Box 1, Folder 8
      Location: Personal and Business Photographs
    • Description: Special Optics Photographs

      • 184-190: Camera lenses

      Container: Box 1, Folder 9
      Location: Personal and Business Photographs
    • Description: Miscellaneous

      • 191-215: Miscellaneous photos of unidentified people and places

      Container: Box 1, Folder 10
      Location: Personal and Business Photographs
    • Description: Chile

      • 224-231: Panorama of cities and surrounding areas

      Container: Box 1, Folder 11
      Location: Personal and Business Photographs
    • Description: Colombia

      • 232-262: Transmitter and studio buildings etc.

      Container: Box 1, Folder 12
      Location: Personal and Business Photographs
    • Description: El Salvador

      • 263-292: Transmitter, studio buildings and panorama of countryside

      Container: Box 1, Folder 13
      Location: Personal and Business Photographs
    • Description: Hong Kong

      • 293-335: Hong Kong area

      Container: Box 1, Folder 14
      Location: Personal and Business Photographs
    • Description: Mexico

      • 336-367: Transmitter area

      Container: Box 1, Folder 15
      Location: Personal and Business Photographs
    • Description: Okinawa

      • 368-398: Studios, transmitter area

      Container: Box 1, Folder 16
      Location: Personal and Business Photographs
    • Description: Venezuela

      • 399-442: Caracas transmitter site and area

      Container: Box 1, Folder 17-18
      Location: Personal and Business Photographs
    • Description: Miscellaneous Duplicates

      • 40 Duplicates

      Container: Box 1, Folder 19
      Location: Personal and Business Photographs
    • Description: Negatives

      • 454-465: Oversize negatives of Cedar City translator location (located in Oversize negative box)
      • 466-496: Views of Hong Kong area

      Container: Box 1, Folder 20
      Location: Personal and Business Photographs
    • Description: Oversize

      • 443-444: Sidney Fox
      • 445-450: KDYL Productions
      • 451-453: KDYL-TV Transmitter on Mount Vision

      Container: Box 2
      Location: Personal and Business Photographs

Finding aid prepared by Mark Evans.
2004 (last modified: 2018)

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