Title	Reporter Ernest Pratt with mobile telephone installed in staff car
Description	Photograph shows Ernest Pratt, San Antonio Light reporter, with radiotelephone unit installed in staff car.
Date-Original	1947 October 12?
Subject	Telephones. Radiophones. Reporters.
Picture Caption	"Reporter Ernest Pratt calls office on mobile telephone / First radiotelephone unit installed in the Light's photo car."
Newspaper Article	"the first local story dictated by radiotelephone, reads: '...The Light's staff photo car is the first radiotelephone mobile unit in San Antonio...It's an extension of regular land phone service, by using ultra-high frequency radio, to vehicles equipped with sending and receiving apparatus. Calls can be made to and from any Bell system or connecting phone, local or long distance..Calls are handled by mobile service operators in the long-distance office in the downtown telephone building...Mobile service will be available to the general public beginning Monday [October 13]'.''"
Notes	Related photo published in: San Antonio Light (October 12, 1947)
Location	San Antonio, Tex.
Format	tiff
Identifier	L-3468-G
Digital identifier	CD# 343; L-3468-G.tif
Collection	San Antonio Light Photograph collection, MS 359, University of Texas San Antonio Libraries Special Collections from the Institute of Texan Cultures
Publisher	University of Texas at San Antonio
Rights	http://lib.utsa.edu/planning-a-visit/photocopy-and-reproduction-services/

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