RHS Library: Magazines and Journals
Researchers may visit the RHS Museum
in Bowie MD to use the library and may make copies of items for a modest fee. On a time available
basis, the librarian may be able to copy items for people who cannot visit the museum in
person.
In addition to the listings below,
the RHS library has Rider Radio Manuals Volumes 1-22, Most Sams Photofacts, and
manufacturer service manuals from companies such as DuMont, Hallicrafters, Philco, Zenith,
and others.
All-Wave Radio
Manson
(First published issue - September
1935)
Antique Radio
Classified
Complete from January 1985 through
November 2001
Antique Radio Club of
America
Nearly complete from Vol. 1, No. 1 (1972) through Vol 20., No. 4 (1992). Missing a few issues from the mid-1970s.
Antique Radio News (Italy)
Issue # 1, 1993 only
Radio Magazines, Inc.
Only scattered issues from 1955
through 1968.
Audiocon, Inc.
A few issues 1957-58.
Audio Engineering
Only Feb., March, and June 1953 issues.
AT&T
Nearly complete for 1942-1950.
Publishing Industries,
Inc.
Only the Nov. 1966 issue.
Cornell-Dubilier
Radio Magazines, Inc.
Complete from 1945 to 1987 (except for
1973-74).
Howard W. Sams
Only Oct. & Dec. 1970
and Sept. 1971.
Electronic Technician,
Inc.
Scattered issues 1957 through 1974.
Electronics
McGraw-Hill
Only May 1937 and Nov.
1954
Only Sept.-Oct. 1972.
Fawcett
Only May 1965, March 1968,
Jan. 1970.
Ziff-Davis
Began May 1959 as
Radio/TV News
Most issues from May 1959
through Dec. 1971, sparser in the early years.
Science and Mechanics
Publishing
Only March-1969 and all of
1979 except July-August.
The Experimenter
Publishing Co.
Only Dec. 1924, April
1925.
North American
Shortwave Association
Scattered issues, 1983 - 1989
General Radio Experimenter
General Radio History
Society
Some issues 1930-1934; most issues 1944-1962.
Communications
Technology, Inc.
March 1973; complete from Jan. 1976 through
June1990
IHRS
Scattered issues, 1977-1979
Mid-Atlantic Antique
Radio Club
Almost complete Aug 1984 (first issue) through
May 1994
Became Radio Age in June 1994
Morsum Magnificat (The Morse Magazine)
G.C. Arnold Partners
Only April and Dec. 1998, May 1999
National Radio Institute
(Became National Radio - TV News in the
1950s)
Only the 30th Anniversary Issue (Vol. 11:5), 1944
National Radio - TV News
Scattered issues from the 1950s
(Formerly NRI News)
National Radio
Institute
Most issues, 1963-1980.
NRI News
(Formerly National Radio - TV News; became NRI Journal in the 1960s)
Publisher - National Radio Institute,
NRI
Most issues, 1960-1962
Antique Wireless
Association
Vol. 1, Numbers 2, 3; and nearly complete holdings, 1973-1999.
Sams
Scattered issues,
1954-1967.
Became Computers and Electronics in
Jan. 1983.
Scattered issues 1955 through 1981,
mostly complete in later years.
Popular Radio, Inc.
Only July, Sept., and Nov.
1923
Modern Publishing Co.
Only Oct. 1923
Institute of Radio Ebgineers
Scattered issues, 1913-1970, with the
last 40
American Radio Relay
League
1921-1990, scattered issues, but most
later years complete.
Technical Publishers
1924-1947, Most years complete (missing 1932-33).
Radio Age (1920s publication)
Radio Age, Inc.
Note: There have been several publications using the name Radio Age
Only issue: May-June 1927
Radio Age (Don Patterson)
Don Patterson
Publication ceased in Dec. 1993, resumed in June 1994 by the Mid-Atlantic Antique Radio Club—see next entry.
Complete, 1976-1980
Radio Age (Mid-Atlantic Antique Radio Club)
Mid-Atlantic Antique
Radio Club
Complete, June 1994 though April 1999.
Radio Age (RCA)
Radio Corporation of America
Started Oct. 1941 as a quarterly: Oct. 1941 through July 57 complete.
Doubleday Page
Complete, 1926 through May 1929.
Doubleday Page
Only March and Dec. 1925, Nov. 1926
Friary Press
Complete from Aug.-Sept. 1989 through
Aug.-Sept. 1995.
Technicraft
Radio Design
Radio Design
Publishing Co.
Only Vol. 1: 4 (1928)
and Vol. 2: 1 & 3 (1929).
Ziff-Davis
Only Nov. 1949 & June
1954.
Scattered issues, 1948-1951; complete 1952-1957; scattered issues, 1958-1963; complete 1964-1966;
sattered issues 1967-68; complete 1969-1970; scattered issues 1971-75; a lmost complete 1976-1981;
and a few issues, 1982-1987.
1930 complete; Feb. and March 1931
Boland & Boyce,
Inc.
Only Sept. 1946.
MacFadden Publications
Only Sept. 1943
Experimenter Publications; later Teck Publications
In 1948, became Radio and Television
News
Most issues 1923-25; scattered issues 1925-29;
and scattered issues, 1935-1948.
Popular Book Company
Dec. 1940 only
Scatttered issues, 1948-1957
Caldwell Clements
By 1948, included Radio and Television
Today
Only April 1939; June 1939 Service & Sound section; Aug. 1948; April & Sept. 1949
Formerly Radio and Television News(1957)
Scattered issues, 1957-59
The Wireless Press
First issue, Oct. 1919
Cowan (later became Radio Television Service
Dealer
Scattered issues, 1941-1942
Caldwell Clements (took second title April 1939)
Nearly complete from Oct. 1936 through
Oct. 1941
Cowan
Only Oct. 1952.
Most issues, 1955-1969
Hennessy Radio
Publications
Scattered issues, 1932-1938.
Radio Corporation of America
Scattered issues 1936-1986, some years complete
Howard Sams
Most folders up through #1300
Experimenter
Publishing Co.
Scattered issues, 1920-1928.
Bryan Davis Publishing Co.
Scattered issues, 1932-1934; complete 1935; nearly complete 1938; scattered issues 1940-42; mostly complete 1952-1955
Gernsback
Complete, Dec. 1932 through Dec. 1936.
Standard Publications
Dec. 1933 only
Sound Practices
Only Summer and Fall 1992, Early 1993
John F. Rider
Sept.-Oct. 1940; nearly complete, 1948-1952
Caldwell-Clements
Only Sept. 1953
Caldwell Clements (formerly Electronic Industries)
Only Nov. 1949
Caldwell-Clements
Scattered issues: 1952-53.
Caldwell-Clements
Scattered issues: 1953-57.
Tom French
Only Oct. 1997.
Only Jan, May, June, July, Aug. 1925.
Iliffe & Sons
Only July 1948.