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Early Color Television

Later Color Sets (1955-65)

1955 Sets

Early Television

Gilfillan C295 Prototype

Early Television

Hoffman Colorcaster M4021A

Early Television

Philco 22D5100 (TV-123 chassis)

Early Television

Packard Bell
Early Television

Philco 22D5102 (TV-123 chassis)

Early Television

RCA CTC-2B model 21-CT-55,  based on the CT-100 chassis

Early Television

RCA TM-21 Monitor

Courtesy of John Folsom

Early Television

RCA TLS50

 

1956/57 Sets

Picture Catalog of 1956 Color TV Sets

Early Television

Admiral Patrician

Early Television

1957 Admiral

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Admiral Ambassador C322C17

Courtesy of John Folsom

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Admiral Ambassador C22C27

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Admiral Ambassador C322C16

Early Television

Airline GSE-6000A

Early Television

Capehart 31T216,  36C216M-5

Early Television

CBS-Columbia 22 inch

Early Television

Col-R-Tel converter

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Colordaptor converter

Early Television

1957 DuMont

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Emerson C-502

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1956-57 General Electric 21C700

Courtesy of Sean Duffy

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1956 Hallicrafters 21CK801M

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Hoffman M4021 Colorcaster

Courtesy of Charles Sanders

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1956 Magnavox

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1957 Magnavox

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1957 Motorola 21CT2M

Courtesy of John Folsom

Early Television

Muntz Chromatron Set

Early Television

Muntz 721 CV. Built around an RCA CTC-5N chassis. This is the Deluxe Series, which  used X and Z wide-band demodulation producing a superior color picture.

Courtesy of John Folsom

Early Television

Packard Bell 21CC1

Early Television

Raytheon C-21C1M

Early Television

RCA CTC-4 

Early Television

RCA CTC-5

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Sentinel IU-816

Early Television

Stromberg Carlson 102CM

Courtesy of John Folsom

Early Television

Sylvania 21C609

Early Television

Silvertone 7140

Early Television

Sylvania 31T304 "The Granada"

Courtesy of John Horvath

Early Television

Sylvania 31C606 "The Saratoga"

Early Television

Transvision Kit

Early Television

Westinghouse H22T155

1958-59 Sets

RCA's first automated production line for color CRTs

Early Television

RCA CTC-7 (1958)

 

Early Television

RCA CTC-9 (1959)

1960 - 1971 Sets

  • Uniray
  • Setchell Carlson brochures
  • Add-On Converter Turns Your B&W TV into a Color Set

Early Television

General Electric Porta Color (1966)

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Spectrac converter

 

 

 


 
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