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Collection: RCA, Thomson Consumer Electronics (Lancaster Plant) Records

Title: RCA, Thomson Consumer Electronics (Lancaster Plant) Records

Object ID: MG0398

Date Range: 1942-1997

Employees General Electric Company Letters Newsletters Radio Corporation of America RCA Corporation Television picture tubes Television--Receivers and reception �230 North President Avenue • Lancaster, Pennsylvania 17603-3125 717.392.4633 • www.LancasterHistory.org Search Terms: Brochures Consumer

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Collection: RCA, Thomson Consumer Electronics (Lancaster Plant) Records

Title: RCA, Thomson Consumer Electronics (Lancaster Plant) Records

Description: The RCA, Thomson Consumer Electronics (Lancaster Plant) Records contain items from Radio Corporation of America and Thomson Consumer Electronics. The collection includes histories of the facility, publicity, corporate and local plant newsletters, employee policies and programs, personnel directories and organizational charts, 1980 information on the color picture tube, and correspondence and information about the Zero Defects program. The newsletters contain a wealth of information about, and pictures of, employees of the Lancaster plant, as well as the activities of the company.

Admin/Biographical History: A 90-acre cornfield purchased by the U.S. Navy in 1942 led to the most modern electron tube plant in the world. The U.S. Navy produced radar tubes in Lancaster during World War II. Radio Corporation of America purchased the plant in 1946 and converted it over to television tube production. The Lancaster plant primarily manufactured color picture tubes until 1972. The following years were devoted to support other facilities. Thomson Consumer Electronics, a French company, bought the rights to RCA's consumer electronics in 1986 and closed the Lancaster plant in 2006.

System of Arrangement: This collection is divided into three series based on the donors.; Series 1 RCA, Thomson Consumer Electronics (Lancaster Plant) Records; Series 2 RCA History and Newsletters; Series 3 Zero-Defects Program, George A. DeLong Papers

Date Range: 1942-1997

Year Range From: 1942

Year Range To: 1997

Date of Accumulation: 1942-1997

Creator: Thomson Consumer Electronics, Inc.

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 10

People: DeLong, George A.

Other Creators: Bechtold, Keith; DeLong, George A., 1922-2002

Subjects: Brochures; Employees; General Electric Company; Letters; Newsletters; Radio Corporation of America; Television picture tubes; Television--Receivers and reception

Search Terms: Brochures; Consumer Electronics News; Correspondence; Employees; Finding aids; Focus in Lancaster; General Electric Company; Letters; LTEC News; Manuscript groups; Newsletters; Radio Corporation of America; RCA; RCA, Picture Tube Division; Television picture tubes; Televisions; Thomson Consumer Electronics, Inc.; Zero-Defects Program

Extent: 3 boxes, 40 folders, 1.5 cubic ft.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0398

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Related Item Notes: Conestoga Television Association Records (MG0400)

Notes: Series 1 Gift of RCA, Thomson Consumer Electronics (Lancaster Plant), 10 April 2010; Series 2 Gift of Keith Bechtold, 5 April 2006; Series 3 Gift of Jeanne S. DeLong, in memory of George A. DeLong, 20 November 2008.; Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), RCA, Thomson Consumer Electronics (Lancaster Plant) Records (MG0398), Series #, Folder #, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Access Conditions / Restrictions: No restrictions.

Copyright: Collection may not be photocopied. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at research@lancasterhistory.org.; Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory. Persons wishing to publish any material from this site must assume all responsibility for identifying and satisfying any claimants of copyright or other use restrictions.

Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Other Numbers: MG-398

Classification: MG0398

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: Processed and finding aid prepared by WP.; Added to database 21 February 2022.

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Collection: General Collection

Object ID: 2-13-06-06

Date Range: June 26, 1963

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Object Name: Print, Photographic

Collection: General Collection

Description: Ingenious space age electronic components - pretty Donna Loar exhibits some of the Space Age electron Tubes made at RCA's manufacturing facility in Lancaster, Pa. The company has just announced a $11.6 million expansion program for this plant. Some of these conversion tubes shown help outer space vehicles "see" and make complex measurements of distant planets. Others are used in military equipment and TV cameras as well as specialized industrial and scientific instruments. Miss Loar holds an osillograph tube which is widely used in electronic test equipment.

Date Range: June 26, 1963

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

People: Loar, Donna

Subcategory: Documentary Artifact

Search Terms: RCA; Radio Corporation of America; Picture tubes; Osillograph tubes

Object Name: Print, Photographic

Print Size: 8 x 10 inches

Condition: Good

Condition Notes: 2008-02-13

Object ID: 2-13-06-06

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Collection: General Collection

Object ID: 2-13-06-08

Date Range: June 26, 1963

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Object Name: Print, Photographic

Collection: General Collection

Description: RCA expansion plans for RCA tubes - With a color TV picture tube and typical industrial and military tubes in foreground, executives of RCA Electronic Components and Devices discuss a new $11.6 million expansion program for these products at the company's plant in Lancaster, Pa. Douglas Y. Smith, left, Vice President of the Components and Devices organization points out on airview photo the location of a new 154,000 square foot manufacturing building. At right are John B. Farese, Division Vice President and General Manager, RCA Television Picture Tube Division and C. E. Burnett, Division Vice President and General Manager, RCA Industrial Tube and Semiconductor Division.