Photo Archive

Young Francis McCarty was one of the first to experiment with the transmission of the voice by wireless. Here he is shown transmitting from the Cliff House in San Francisco. This public demonstration of his [...]

The entire staff of KTAB is shown seated in the station’s main studio. In the inset at left is Mrs. Ada Morgan O’Brien, Program Director, and at right, E. Harold Dana, announcer. Standing are Rod [...]

Wally King (center right, wearing glasses) was associated with KSFO for nearly three decades. Here he is seen doing a “Man on the Street” interview program, about 1945.

Wilda Wilson Church   Wilda Wilson Church was a pioneer radio drama producer. Born in Ohio, she was an English teacher and dramatic instructor at the Cora L. Williams Institute, a private high school for [...]

Wesley Innis Dumm was perhaps the most important single individual in the long history of KSFO. Born in Ohio, he graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University, practiced law in Wyoming, and was a banking executive in [...]

Tommy Harris, a 14-year-old vocalist who took the West by a storm, was one of KFRC’s top attractions in the 1930s. He and Joaquin Garay were regulars on “Feminine Fancies.” In 1947, he opened the [...]

Announcers, engineers and other staff of the NBC San Francisco operations, taken in Studio A on the 22nd Floor at 111 Sutter Street in 1941. The occasion was Bill Wood’s last day as an announcer [...]

The Southern Harmony Four, featured in “Crosscuts” from the “Log O’ the Day,” heard every morning on KPO. Among the performers that appeared with the Southern Harmony Four was a young Saunders King, who went [...]