DescriptionPortable radio broadcasting station WJAZ, Chicago (1924).jpg
English: Truck-mounted portable radio station WJAZ, used by the Zenith Radio Corporation to evaluate candidate sites around Chicago for the station's permanent transmitter placement. Original caption: "A Traveling Broadcasting Station: The motor truck carrying a broadcasting station which has been traveling about near Chicago. It is said to be the first complete self-contained, self-sustaining battery-operated station functioning without any external source of supply and carrying its own antenna."
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Publicity photograph included in the article "A Portable Broadcasting Outfit", from page 23 of the November 8, 1924 (Vol. 83, No. 6) issue of Literary Digest magazine.
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Uncredited publicity photograph distributed by the Zenith Radio Corporation
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Widely reproduced publicity photograph distributed by the Zenith Radio Corporation of Chicago, Illinois, promoting the travels of its portable radio station, WJAZ. This was published without a copyright notice and was intended for general distribution.
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Portable broadcasting station WJAZ, mounted on a truck by the Zenith Radio Corporation of Chicago, Illinois