Category: LOAN
Object Type: photograph
Photographer: UNKNOWN
Date: 1957-1959
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: NYT.2016.0094.0011

Inscriptions:
Recto, [no inscription]; Verso, typed: The heart of a DEW Line station is the huge air-search / radar antenna, which rotates inside a protecting plastic / housing. Although the antenna is entirely surrounded by this housing, the electronic beams going out from it and the / echo impulse returning are able to pass unaffected through / the dome's "skin."; stamped: P. SEP 2959 [struck through]; handwritten: (to bring above caption up to date - ) / in light of current events & missiles; typed: Radome on the Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line. On t[he] job / protecting North America against [hanwritten] surprise attach sin[ce] July / 30 1957 the DEW Line-- built by the Western Electric Co[mpa]ny as / prime contractor--will not be replaced by the Ballisti[c Mi]ssile / Early Warning Systerm (BMEWS) now underway because the d[etec]tion / of aircraft and missiles present two different sets of problems. / When BMEWS is completed, the DEW Line will continue to watch for / manned bombers as BMEWS watches for missiles. For as long as / we are in danger of attack, we are in danger of both forms of / attack, defense authorities believe. / --photo by Western Electric; handwritten: 13-031-L-9 [circled]; stamped: P. JAN [illeg.] [struck through]; stamped: RE[TURN TO TIMES / DATE RECEIVED / AUG 17 1959 / [IN PICTURE] FILES / PHOTO LIBRARY; stamped: M JAN 15 60 [struck through]; stamped: M April 21 61 [struck through]; stamped: B SEP 1059 [struck through]; stamped: M FEB [iilleg.] [struck through]

Credit Line: The Rudolph P. Bratty Family Collection