Arthur Grant Anderson

Arthur Grant Anderson was raised in Binford, North Dakota and graduated from the University of North Dakota in 1938. During World War II, he served as a radio-telephoto operator in the U.S. Army Signal Corps and then in the Pentagon. The one folder of materials contributed by Anderson contains a written recollection of these experiences, entitled "First Color News Photo Transmitted by Radio: The Potsdam Conference and Other Radio telephoto Experiences." As the title notes, the narrative's main focus is Anderson's description of receiving the first color news photo to be transmitted by radio telephoto, which Anderson had received in the Pentagon on July 26, 1945. The photo featured President Harry Truman, British Prime Minister Clement Atlee and Soviet Generalissimo Josef Stalin taken at the Potsdam Conference. Anderson also explains the process of sending a photograph by radio transmitter, its history during the war and some of his other experiences as a radio telephoto operator during other events of the war, including the D-Day invasion and Japanese surrender on the U.S.S. Missouri.