HU OSA 300-1-8:3/17

Antennae and Freedom Bell of Radio Free Europe at Gloria

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Still Image

English (Original)

The black and white prints of RFE/RL were donated to OSA by the Hoover Institute, California in year 2015. The images are duplicates of those held at Hoover. The originals, and most probably the negatives are with the donor as well. OSA only received the paper prints with captions, and digitized the entire collection in year 2018.

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photograph

Several antennae rise to the sky above a roof. Electrical wires crisscross between them and non visible objects. In the foreground of the picture there is a white walled memorial with the cast iron copy of Freedom Bell. On the side of the memorial there is an illegible scripture. C.f. HU OSA 300-1-8:3/4, HU OSA 300-1-8:3/10, HU OSA 300-1-8:3/11, HU OSA 300-1-8:3/12, HU OSA 300-1-8:3/13, HU OSA 300-1-8:3/14, HU OSA 300-1-8:3/15, HU OSA 300-1-8:3/16, HU OSA 300-1-8:3/18, HU OSA 300-1-8:3/97, HU OSA 300-1-8:3/98. ORIGINAL CAPTION: n.a. RESEARCH BASED DESCRIPTION: The bell is a copy of the Freedom Bell donated to the city of Berlin in the framework of the Crusade for Freedom campaign run by the National Committee for a Free Europe, the organization which operated Radio Free Europe. The bell as an emblem, and then as a real physical object, was the idea of the public relations company General Mills, hired to run the campaign. The Freedom Bell, modeled on the American Liberty Bell, was installed in the tower above the town hall in West Berlin on United Nations Day, October 24, 1950, with the symbolic purpose of tolling freedom across the Eastern zone. It carries the inscription "That this world under God shall have a new birth of freedom".

181 x 239 mm ; b&w