A substantial album kept by an antenna constructor active in Southern California in the late 1940's and early 1950's named Ed Hall. Projects and locations well identified in a neatly written, autograph pencil throughout and include an array of television antennas atop Mt. Wilson ; radio antennas at the Palomar Observatory, location scouting in and around Gorman, and more. The images often feature views of the roadways travelled to various jobsites and the finished towers which appear to have been designed and built for television, radio, and telephone communications. An evocative, singular album and superb example of post-War vernacular photography with interest to technology, the early proliferation of television, Southern California, engineering, etc... 

[Photo Albums] : [Antennas] . [Photo Album of Antenna Construction in Southern California]. [Los Angeles and Environs]: (ca. 1946-1952). 4to. commercial album. Brown vinyl over boards, post bound through left margin. 31 tan paper leaves holding 140 black and white photographs of various dimensions. (80 approximately 5" x 3 1/2" snapshots ; 50 contact prints approximately 2 1/2" x 2" ; 8 approximately 3 1/2" square snapshots ; 2 approximately 8" x 10"). Prints loosely fit into corner mounts to rectos only. Well notated, identified by location and date, in pencil throughout. Small sticker to interior front cover reading: "Genuine Surtex Texon." Some splitting to vinyl about spine. One print loose from mounting. A few additional color snapshots and pieces of ephemera laid in loose. Prints ocassionaly with a faint waviness, overall a neatly assembled and well preserved album. Very good-plus.