Gold wireless microphone and black case used on The Oprah Winfrey Show
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@ National Museum of African American History and Culture
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A wireless gold-plated microphone (.1ab) and case (.2) used by Oprah Winfrey during episodes of Season 24 of The Oprah Winfrey Show. The hand-held microphone has a circular gold mesh wire grill with a flattened top covering the foam interior of the microphone. The grill is bisected around the sides by a band of gold-plated metal. The grill is attached to a gold-plated cylindrical handle. The handle is made from two pieces, with a small rectangular digital display screen on the top half of the handle bordered by gray plastic, with "G1 470-530 MHZ" printed in white type below it. A smaller round-edged cylindrical piece of black plastic protrudes from the bottom of the handle with the text "SHURE" in relief on the tip and an On/Off switch where the tip meets the handle. The bottom half of the handle (b) screws off to reveal a battery chamber that holds two (2) AA batteries. Opposite the battery chamber is a digital push-button menu with four (4) buttons reading clockwise from top: up-facing arrow, "enter", down-facing arrow, "exit". The button menu is directly below the digital display screen on the exterior of the top half of the handle. Beneath the buttons is a manufacturer's label with serial and model numbers, and a key for the menu buttons..2: A black hard plastic briefcase-style case for the microphone (.1ab). The case is rectangular with rounded corners and a sloping angle on the top side around the handle and clasps. Gold text is painted...
.1ab: Plastic, Metal, Gold Plate, Wire, And Foam;.2: Plastic, Foam, And Ink On Adhesive Paper
Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Oprah Winfrey
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Smithsonian InstitutionKeywords
- Actors
- Actors And Actresses
- African American
- African Americans
- Entertainers
- Harpo, Inc
- Mass Media
- Shure
- Television
- Winfrey, Oprah