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Collection Summary
Collection: 2018P050 - Preston L. Sawyer Postcard Collection
Folder: 0000.000
Item: 00004
Title: KFYR Radio Station, Bismarck (N.D.)
Date: ca. 1927
Summary: The building and transmitters for the KFYR radio station sit on the corner of 4th Street and Broadway Avenue in Bismarck. Also visible are Finney's Drug Store, and the Hoskins-Meyer shop on thre ground floor of the building.||The license for the KFYR radio station was issued in 1926.In 1927, KFYR radio had two large transmission towers on top of a building at Fourth and Main streets in Bismarck. The large building to the left is the federal building. Businesses occupied storefronts on the main street level.
Red ID: PH_I_91644 Image ID: 48387 Image Notes: 2018-P-050-00004

Collection: 2018P050 Digitized Images from Collection
Title: Preston L. Sawyer Postcard Collection
Date: 1916-1953

Summary: North Dakota postcards sent to Preston L. Sawyer, Santa Cruz, Calif., mostly from August Olson, Grand Forks. They seemed to be exchanging California and North Dakota postcards. Most of them date from 1916-1917 and one is dated 1953.

Collection Summary
Collection: 2018P050 - Preston L. Sawyer Postcard Collection
Folder: 0000.000
Item: 00004
Title: KFYR Radio Station, Bismarck (N.D.)
Date: ca. 1927
Summary: The building and transmitters for the KFYR radio station sit on the corner of 4th Street and Broadway Avenue in Bismarck. Also visible are Finney's Drug Store, and the Hoskins-Meyer shop on thre ground floor of the building.||The license for the KFYR radio station was issued in 1926.In 1927, KFYR radio had two large transmission towers on top of a building at Fourth and Main streets in Bismarck. The large building to the left is the federal building. Businesses occupied storefronts on the main street level.
Red ID: PH_I_91644 Image ID: 48388 Image Notes: 2018-P-050-00004-back

Collection: 2018P050 Digitized Images from Collection
Title: Preston L. Sawyer Postcard Collection
Date: 1916-1953

Summary: North Dakota postcards sent to Preston L. Sawyer, Santa Cruz, Calif., mostly from August Olson, Grand Forks. They seemed to be exchanging California and North Dakota postcards. Most of them date from 1916-1917 and one is dated 1953.

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