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File:Radio station KFQX in Olmstead home, Seattle, 1924 (MOHAI 5473).jpg

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English: Radio station KFQX in Olmstead home, Seattle, 1924   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Title
English: Radio station KFQX in Olmstead home, Seattle, 1924
Description
English: Roy and Elise Olmstead purchased a large home in the Mount Baker neighborhood in 1924. They started a commercial radio station called KFQX, based in a spare room of their residence. After Prohibition agents raided the home and arrested Roy Olmstead, they speculated that the couple used the radio broadcasts of children’s stories to send coded messages to rumrunners, who were transporting booze from British Columbia to remote spots in Washington State. The man on the left side of this photo is probably Roy Olmstead.
  • Subjects (LCTGM): Equipment; Prohibition—Washington (State)--Seattle; Radio stations—Washington (State)—Seattle;
  • People: Olmstead, Roy
There is no man on the left side of this photo. No idea what MOHAI had in mind there.
Depicted place
English: United States—Washington (State)—Seattle
Date 1924
date QS:P571,+1924-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium
English: 1 photographic print: b&w
Dimensions height: 8 in (20.3 cm); width: 10 in (25.4 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,8U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,10U218593
institution QS:P195,Q219563
Current location
Museum of History and Industry
Accession number
5473
Source
English: Museum of History and Industry
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Public domain
This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1929.
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Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved

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