Stromberg Carlson Radio

This antique piece houses a radio-receiver in a four-legged highboy with a stretcher base. The central cabinet doors slide outward to reveal the face of the radio covered by a decorative panel with flourishing scrollwork pressed into veneer-faced plywood. The radio dial peeks through a narrowing viewfinder outfitted with a minutely ornamented brass piece and below it in gold lettering is the manufacturer name, "Stromberg-Carlson". A corresponding tuning knob with two subsequent knobs for sharpening and volume sit below the dial. Their backdrop breaks from the scrolling design into a banner modeled after gathered fabric, perhaps to imitate the movement of the knobs. The speaker is below but is disguised by a wooden cutout of the scrolling design used around the dial overlaying acoustic cloth of the same color. Then the cabinet doors are closed, staining on the doors mimic a proscenium arch and are framed by beveled wooden panels in the fashion of stage curtains, combining with a scrollwork banner above to suggest a theater stage.
Stromberg Carlson Radio
Inventory
Collection Number
17202
Building
Current Location
Courtney S. Turner Boardroom
Floor
2nd
Description
Details
This is a radio-receiver manufactured by Stromberg-Carlson in 1929, model No. 642-A.
Framed
No
Width
16 inches
Height
49 1/2 inches
Length
25 inches
Donor
Library Owns
No
Permissions
Reproduce the Work in Library publications/publicity, including film or videotape
Yes
Reproduce
Library has Photography Rights
Yes
Photograph
Permit the general public to photograph the work
Yes
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