The 1.5 million-image GE Photograph Collection at The

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The 1.5 million-image GE Photograph Collection at The
The 1.5 million-image GE Photograph Collection at The Schenectady Museum
is one of the largest and most significant photograph collections in the world.
Elfuns Rudy Dehn and Raleigh Keeter are re-housing the GE Photograph Collection.
“We get to see a lot of interesting stuff,” said Rudy.
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GE Photograph No. 1 - 1891
Combined switch and controller board (back). For printing press.
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1918
A GE worker poses with a 20th stage turbine bucket wheel.
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1932
Dr. Irving Langmuir, left, beside Dr. William D. Coolidge, listening to cosmic rays by means of
Geiger-Muller tube detector designed by Chrster W. Rice, right. Minute clicks, as these
mysterious rays are intercepted, are made to sound like rifle shots when amplified through
GE New-type radio receiver. In the G E Research Laboratory, Schenectady, N Y. 6-7-1932.
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1942
One of the latest PCC trolley cars equipped with GE electric apparatus, specially painted
to promote sale of ware bodns and stamps. Car in service of the Los Angeles Railway Corp.,
in Los Angeles, CA. 11-16-1942
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To assist in the preservation of these historical records
relating to GE and the development of the electrical industry, contact
Chris Hunter, Curator of Collections and Exhibitions
Schenectady Museum & Suits-Bueche Planetarium
Nott Terrace Heights
Schenectady, NY 12308
Phone: (518) 382-7890
e-mail: hunter@schenectadymuseum.org
Website: www. Schenectadymuseum.org
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