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Postcards from the Edge VI: Television & Media Industries: Historical Material

Nedda Ahmed & Lea Whittington

 

Historical Sources

Resource Name What it has...
Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive
(ProQuest)

Full text for the following publications and more:

  • Broadcasting (and its various titles), 1945-2000
  • The Stage/The Stage and Television Today (1880-1994)
  • Variety (1940-1985, 1987-2000--more to come)

New York Times Historical
(ProQuest)

Full text (with ads), 1851-present, minus most recent 4 years.
Media History Digital Archive
(Internet Archive)
Extensive runs of several important trade papers and fan magazines.
Billboard Archives
(Google Books)
Full-page images for each issue, 1940-2010.
Box Office
(The Vault)
Full-page pdf images for each issue, 1925-2012.
Variety Television Reviews Print volumes containing all TV reviews from Variety and Daily Variety published between 1923-1988. (easier than using microfilm!)

 

Historical Sources: Companies

Historical Annual Reports
(ProQuest)

"800 companies, 150 years of coverage"
Business Periodicals Index Retrospective 1913-1982
(Ebsco)
  • Indexing for 1000 periodicals
  • Includes complete files of Industrial Arts Index (1913-1957)
  • Trial is active until May 24, 2013.