The Photographs of Philo T. Farnsworth Photograph Collection (P0437) Manuscripts Division Special Collections University of Utah Marriott Library Salt Lake City, Utah 1992 Life Span: 1906-1971 Photographs: ca. 1920's-1970's Accession Number: 1252 Collection Processed By: Michael Rawson, Drew Ross Register Prepared By: Michael Rawson, Drew Ross Register Completed: June, 1992 Linear Feet of Shelf Space: -1 Number of Items: 393 Literary Rights: None Restrictions: None Accompanying Material: May be found in Manuscripts Division of Special Collections under Accession Number 1252. Content and Scope The photograph collection contains prints and slides including Philo's childhood to his death. A large amount of the photographs document his various technological and equipment inventions, as well as early television shows, the first TV broadcast. Also personal photographs of his family and colleagues. Fd 1 Philo T. Farnsworth 1- Philo Farnsworth at his desk in lab at 127 E. Mermaid Lane, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-1934. 2- Philo Farnsworth-1936. 3-4- Philo Farnsworth at 17 (1923), a student. 5- Philo playing violin. 6- Grave of Philo T. Farnsworth. 7- On Snow Bird River in North Carolina replacing a fly to lure a trout. 8- Philo T. Farnsworth in Maine. 9- Philo at Sanibel Island, Fla.-1968. 10- Unidentified. 11- Mr. Del Courtney on left with Mr. Philip Lasky and Philo T. Farnsworth during interview at KPIX San Francisco in 1950. 12- Philo being interviewed on TV in San Francisco in 1950's. 13- Philo at his desk in his Philadelphia TV research lab, 1936. 14- Philo in New York in 1931 on roof of Penney Hotel. 15- Philo T. Farnsworth-1950. 16- Philo T. Farnsworth-1950-Fort Wayne-age 44. 17- Philo-Fort Wayne return from Aculpulco. 18- Philo in his study at his home in Halladay-1970. 19- Philo looking out to sea on the beach at Sanibel Island of Ft. Meyers, Fla. 20- 140 ft. dam designed and built by P.T. Farnsworth in 1939 for trout pond. 21- P.T. Farnsworth at news conference-S.F. Press Club- 1950. 22- Philo with his dog "Thunder" looking over his burned forest acreage in Maine (forest fire of 1947). 23-27- Philo T. Farnsworth. 28- Philo Farnsworth at 202 Green Street Lab-1928. 29- Philo Farnsworth with his new electron Multiplier tube about 1935. 30-34- Philo T. Farnsworth. Fd 2 Philo and Pem Farnsworth 1- Philo and Pem Farnsworth. 2- Philo and Pem Farnsworth with Seymore Turner in background-arriving at Washington Airport. 3- Philo and Pem going over papers in their breakfast room in their Holliday, Utah home-1969. 4- Philo and Pem boarding plane in Fort Wayne, Ind. to fly to San Francisco as guests of the San Francisco Press Club at the opening of the TV link between S.F. and L.A. 5- Philo and Pem at he Hotel de Orient Montone, French Riviera-1936. 6- Philo and Pem on return from S.L.C. Temple Wedding-5- 27-68. Fd 3 Pem Farnsworth 1- Tom Cosgrove and Pem Farnsworth with plaque Pem made for Farnsworth Dam-1939. Fd 4 Philo Farnsworth with Family 1- 1938-Pack trip to Maine-L to R-Cliff Gardner, Philo Farnsworth. 2- Philo's mother, Serena Bastian Farnsworth receiving corsage. 3- P.T. Farnsworth presenting tubes to Rigby High School-where he invented Image Dissector. 4- Lincoln Farnsworth in the box shop of Farnsworth wood products. 5- Lincoln, Lindy, Claude, Carl, and Philo Farnsworth- 1935. 6- Philo with his brothers-Left-Lincoln, Right, Carl. 7- Unidentified. 8-9- Philo with baby Russell-1935-Philadelphia. 10- Bishop Gerke, Linda, and Kent after Wedding Ceremony at home in Ft. Wayne-734 E. State Blvd. 11-13- Unidentified. 14- P.T. Farnsworth at Clay's Pond on his Maine Property- at left his brother Carl, Philo and son Philo. 15- Philo Farnsworth with his mother-1937 in his home in Wyndmoore, Pa., near Philadelphia. 16- Philo and Cliff stopping to rest on the 2 mile pack trip on their way to camp on little Snow Bird Creek, North Carolina. 17- Philo T. Farnsworth. 18- Philo and Philo Jr. and Lola and Jean Gardner. 19- Unidentified. 20- Skee-2 1/2 years old. 21-24- Unidentified. 25- Philo and Skee-18 months and 7 1/2 years. 26- Unidentified. 27- Philo T Farnsworth III-1974. 28-33- Slides of family trip-1953. Fd 5 Philo and Friends 1- Cast of "Charm School", B.Y.U. Standing: D. Alton Partridge, Philo Farnsworth, Warren Beardall and Elton BIllings (leading man). 2- Aboard their HMS Majestic-L to R- Tobe Rutherford, "Skee" Turner, and Philo T. Farnsworth-late 1934. 3- Class mates at Rigby High School-L to R-Rulon Doman, Philo Farnsworth, Vern Sorenson. 4- Philo, Morey, and Tom. 5- Rulon Doman, Philo Farnsworth, Vern Sorenson. 6- Philo Farnsworth and Lavieda Coacher, School Year 1919-20. 7- Left to Right-Arch Madsen, his mother, Philo, Pem, and Zeline-1958-Cedar City. 8- Rigby High School Class 30th Reunion-1954 or 55. Fd 6 Homes 1-3- Unidentified. 4-5- Home of Philo T. Farnsworth-5166 Cottonwood Lane, Salt Lake City (Holladay), Utah. 6- The old George Haley boyhood home in Brownfield, Maine-purchased by Philo and Pem in 1937. 7- Home at 734 E. State-Fort Wayne. 8- Unidentified. Fd 7 Friends and Close Associates 1- Cyril Day. 2- Seymour Turner-1936 3-4- Unidentified. 5- Frances Critchlo. 6- Recent picture of Frances Critchlo. 7- Donald K. Lippincott. Fd 8 Equipment 1-2- Farnsworth Television Model-1936. 3- Farnsworth Iatron Tube. 4- Unidentified. 5- Diode Cold Cathode Multipactor tubes....unique in that it has no filament. 6- Unidentified. 7- Demonstration of 1 tube radio using Multipactor shown at IRE Convention, New York City-1935. 8- High Powered one tube radio-Sent message around the world-1932. 9- Farnsworth TV Camera. 10- Unidentified. 11- Insides of Farnsworth television receiver-1937. 12- Farnsworth Fusor-approx. 1966. 13- Continuous film TV projector-1930's. 14- Farnsworth Television Camera-The first Mobil TV Camera-1930. 15- Multipactor Crystal Control-used in New York-3/4/36. 16- Electron Multiplier tube. 17- 1927-1st Electronic Transmitter-produced by Farnsworth at 202 Green Street, San Francisco. 18- Unidentified. 19- Farnsworth Television Receiver as of 1930. 20- Farnsworth Transmitter-1927. 21-39- Unidentified Equipment. 40- Multipactor. Fd 9 Philo with Colleagues 1- This crew produced the first all electronic television picture on 9/7/27. 2- Unidentified. 3- Seymour Turner and Philo Farnsworth. 4- Arch Madsen and Philo Farnsworth-Cedar City-1958. 5- Unidentified. 6- Philo T. Farnsworth and Bruce Coke in Philo's study at Salt Lake City-1970. 7-9- Television Personnel at Farnsworth TV studio (1938)- prior to moving to Fort Wayne. 10- Philo T Farnsworth with Colleagues. 11- L to R-Philo Farnsworth, R Adm F.R. Furth, and Dr. Chowders in Philo's office-1965 or 66. 12- Les Gorrell, Philo Farnsworth, and George Emerson in Philo's Green Street Lab-1928. 13- Unidentified. 14-15- Philo T. Farnsworth, R Adm Frederick R. Furth, and Dr. Maraen Chowderoux. Fd 10 Colleagues 1- Engineers and office personnel at Farnsworth TV and Radio Corporation-Fort Wayne, Ind.-1940. 2- Some of Philo's old Colleagues. 3- Farnsworth Television and Radio Golf Tournament- 1949. 4- Mr. John Locie Baird-Baird Television limited. 5- Dr. E.D. Lawrence. Fd 11 Philo Demonstrating Equipment 1- Farnsworth Camera. 2- Philo Farnsworth with equipment. 3- Don McKay on Farnsworth Camera with Cameraman from scientific films for Paramount News-1936. 4- Philo T. Farnsworth, Right, Inventor of Television. 5- Philo with early model of "Fusor" about 1964. 6- Philo T. Farnsworth with equipment. 7- Dr. Rolf Mueller of Fernseh A.G. Berlin with Philo T. Farnsworth showing an early experimental projection tube-1933. 8- Philo T. Farnsworth Philadelphia Lab-1938. 9- Scene on roof of the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia-August, 1934. 10- Unidentified. 11- Philo Farnsworth holding improved Image Dissector Tube in his Philadelphia Lab-127 E. Mermaid Lane-1933 or 34. 12- Unidentified. 13- Philo T. Farnsworth with his "Fusor"-1960. 14- Philo T. Farnsworth with Image Dissector. 15- P.T. Farnsworth with his television receiver-1920 or 30. 16- Philo's brother-in-law Linden L. Player with Farnsworth experimental broadcasting equipment. 17- Philo's equipment. 18- Mobil unit crew. 19- Philo with equipment. 20- Philo with first mobil unit. 21- One of the first outdoor experimental telecasts. Philadelphia-1934. 22- P.T. Farnsworth with 1929 version of continuous film TV transmitter first attempts-San Francisco, Green Street Lab-Late 1928. 23- Max Factor Jr., Elaine Sheppard, and George Emerson- prior to a special make-up test. 24- George Sleepen, George Emerson-San Francisco Lab. 25- Don Pike at the Farnsworth Camera. 26- Unidentified. 27- John Stagmars in Oklahoma with his TV demo.-1948. 28- The Farnsworth television show was taken on a country wide tour in 1938. Very well received. 29- 1st Farnsworth television receiver for assembly lines-1947. 30- Philo with equipment. 31- Unidentified. 32- George Bain, Gene Meeks, R Adm Frederick R. Furth with Philo's "Fusor". Fd 12 Fusion 1-13- Fusion Fd 13 ITT=Mark III 1- Mark III-installed on vacuum system. 2- Mark III-ready to operate. 3- Mark III-ready to operate. 4-5- Mark III-Anode hemispheres with all welding completed. 6- First design Mark III Cathode. 7-11- Biased Gem parts. Fd 14 ITT-Ion Transport Pump 1-2- Ion Transport Pump. 3- Model I Transport Ion Pump. Fd 15 ITT-Pendulator 1-2- Early version of Pendulator. Fd 16 ITT-Mark II Prime 1-2- Mark II Fd 17 ITT-Mark I 1- Mark I interior. 2- Tube operating 1 discharge-January 24, 1961 3- Tube operating room lites on flash lite on January 24,1961. 4- Tubes operating 1 flash. 5- Tube operating 15 discharges. 6- Tube operating. 7- Tube not operating. 8- Tube operating 15 flashes. 9- Tube operating 1 small discharge. 10- Mark I. 11- Room lite only-tube not operating. 12- Tube operating. 13- Unidentified. 14-18- Mark I. 19- Constructional Data. 20-21- Mark I interior. 22- Mark I Anode. 23-25- Group with Mark I government lab. 26-27- Mark I with Personnel. Fd 18 ITT-Mark II 1- Composite picture of Mark II. 2- Mark II Phantom showing inside details. 3-4- Phantom of Mark II showing anode and cathode position. 5- Complete-Mark II. 6- Partly assembled Mark II. Fd 19 Inside Studios 1- Nat Ragone and Orch. on Farnsworth studio-1936. 2- Unidentified. 3- Farnsworth TV studio-1936. 4- Unidentified. 5- Mrs. Laura Player, Miss Bonnie Krauser, and Mr. R.E. Rutherford. Fd 20 Outside Studios and Laboratories 1- Electronic Tube Lab-Wyndmoor, Pa. 2- The Farnsworth television broadcasting studio-1936- Philadelphia. 3- Farnsworth television and radio plant in Fort Wayne,Ind.-1948. 4- Farnsworth television broadcast studio-Wyndmoor, Pa.- 1936. 5-6- Farnsworth broadcast tower and shack-1936-Near Philadelphia. Fd 21 Laboratory Work 1- Cliff Gardner and Phillip Snell in tube lab- Farnsworth Television Inc.-about 1934. 2-5- Farnsworth Television Lab. 6- Early TV receiver tube-1933. 7- Unidentified. 8- Farnsworth engineer testing 1 tube radio set with Philo's cold cathode tube-1936. 9- Farnsworth TV Console/Monitor-1949. 10- Philo Farnsworth with his "Fusor" and engineers. Fd 22 TV Demonstrations 1- John Stagnors in Oklahoma with his TV demo.-1948. 2- Farnsworth Television Radio show-Flint Michigan-1939. Fd 23 Projected Images 1- Televised poster on 14" tube in 1939. 2- Photograph of the televised picture-1931. 3- Pictures of received picture on Farnsworth TV receiver-1930. 4-15- Unidentified. 16- 1936 Tv reception. 17- Unidentified. 18- Picture of the Farnsworth television transmission- 1932-Subject-3 year old Philo-Philadelphia. 19- Farnsworth television reception-1930. 20- Smiles Blume, "Little Miss Television" on the Farnsworth set-1936. 21- John Crawford photographed on Farnsworth Television- 1934. 22- Farnsworth Television Photograph-1/20/39. 23-24- Philo T. Farnsworth. 25- Unidentified. 26- Negatives. Fd 24 Speaking Engagements 1- Philo T. Farnsworth lecturing to the Society of Electrical Engineers-San Francisco Chapter. 2- Philo T. Farnsworth speaking to former High School Classmates at Rigby Reunion. 3-4- Philo giving a talk before the San Francisco Electrical Engineers Club at opening of TV link between S.F. and L.A. Fd 25 Awards 1- Philo T. Farnsworth "Emmy". 2- Philo T. Farnsworth receiving Morris Liebman Memorial Prize. Fd 26 Hugo Greensback Trophy 1-3- Hugo Greensback Trophy. Fd 27 Green Street 1- Green Street. Fd 28 Statue 1- Statue of Philo T. Farnsworth. 2- Unidentified. Fd 29 50th Anniversary-Recreation 1-11- 50th Anniversary-Recreation Fd 30 Dam 1-6- Dam. Fd 31 Miscellaneous 1-2- Farnsworth Television Float. 3-11- Unidentified. Fd 32 Negatives 1-2- Philo T. Farnsworth. 3-11- 50th Anniversary-Recreation. Fd 33 Negatives 1-10- Equipment. Fd 34 Negatives 1-10- Equipment. Fd 35 Negatives 1-10- Equipment. Fd 36 Negatives 1-10- Equipment.