Ted Malone talks into a portable microphone on a ship

Description

Ted Malone, wearing a plaid tam, looks at and holds a portable microphone in his right hand with wires attached to a case that hangs from a strap around his neck as he stands to the right of the unidentified white male captain of the ship. The ships engine control telegraph is in the foreground.
No date; likely 1940s
Digitizing agency: University of Missouri--Kansas City. Library. Dr. Kenneth J. LaBudde Special Collections.