CQD Painting/Photo - Anyone Know The Origin?

[W1UJR]

I saw this wonderful framed painting while visiting the New England Museum of Wireless and Steam earlier this year. It is located at the top of the stairs leading into the room housing the Massie Wireless Station, and is, I assume, some sort of marketing piece. The bottom of the frame as the following "I have a wireless message for you." in what appears to be metal cast type. To the right of this is another casting of a straight key.

I do apologize for the poor quality of the photo, the hall was somewhat dark, and the flash really messed things up.

Does anyone have any idea of the origin of this image?

[Opcom]

nice lookin gal. Could it be an old military poster?

[KB2WIG]

I think Popular Communications had a repo/comment in their mag years agogo.

klc

[W1GFH]

Looks like it's signed by Charles Allan Gilbert, 1906, a famous and prolific illustrator of the time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Allan_Gilbert

[W1TAV]

I love these old images from the golden age of illustrators and advertising ..   Good luck with your search..  Steve w1tav

[W1UJR]

Posted that same message on the AWA list, they had the same results, at about the same time!
You guys managed to find out what I had been searching for for over one month.

I found the postcard below, would sure be neat to find a large scale image.

http://www.grillecloth.com/radioart/radioart.php?image=2505.jpg&pageNum_rsDetails=0&ID=4&start1=G

[flintstone mop]

Good luck with the "grillcloth" water mark on the pic.

Fred

[k4kyv]

You could probably use photoshop to obliterate that one, since it is only at the margin and over the solid background.  It's more difficult when the watermark is translucent and includes part of the picture.

Something I find particularly annoying is the watermark they keep in one corner of the TV screen the whole time the show is running.

[W1UJR]

I may be getting a higher res scan of the image, so the watermark may be a moot point.

Now I'm really interested for what reason the image was created.

[WA9UDW]

You could probably use photoshop to obliterate that one, since it is only at the margin and over the solid background.  It's more difficult when the watermark is translucent and includes part of the picture.

I just did a quick edit with Windows Paint.

[W1UJR]

Very nice!

[KB2WIG]

I think they cut off the rest of the message.

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[W3SLK]

I think that would make an awesome QSL card!