Vintage Magazine Ads from Duke University's Ad*Access Website

RF Cafe - Duke University's Ad*Access websiteHere are a few examples of a very extensive collection of advertisements for radios and other consumer electronics from magazines back in middle of the last century. Duke University has managed to amass a huge number of magazine ads on their website in a feature called "Ad*Access." There are thousands of high quality scans of magazine ads on topics like beauty and hygiene radios, radio parts, and radio programs, miscellaneous electronic products, such as hearing aids, telephones, etc. See television advertisements, transportation from the first half of the twentieth century (airlines, rental cars, buses, trains and ships), aircraft, trains, ships and busses. Many ads from the WWII era are also available. You could spend hours perusing all the material there.

Here are a few examples of magazine advertisements that would be of particular interest to RF Cafe visitors. Be sure to go to Duke University's Ad*Access site for more. These images would be good for inclusion in presentations and reports as interest getters.

Westinghouse magazine ad from 1948 - RF Cafe

1948

Westinghouse

Magazine Ad

de Forest Audion Advertisement from Duke University - RF Cafe

1929

de Forest Audions

Magazine Ad

   
RF Cafe - Philco television ad from 1947

1947

Philco Televisions

Magazine Ad

1943 Electrified American Industry ad - RF Cafe

1943

Electrified American Industry

Magazine Ad

 

   
Admiral Radio magazine ad from 1943 - RF Cafe

1943

Admiral Radio

Magazine Ad

RCA magazine ad from 1943 - RF Cafe

1943

RCA Radios

Magazine Ad

   
RF Cafe - 1943 Star in Service magazine ad

1943

Stars in Service

Magazine Ad

1945 Eimac magazine ad - RF Cafe

1945

Eimac

Magazine Ad

Here are a few magazine ads that I have scanned:

The RCA Graphechon Tube July 9, 1950 edition of the Saturday Evening Post

Evil Noisy Radios - May 29, 1948, edition of the Saturday Evening Post

Mt. Palomar Telescope Pyrex Mirror Blank - May 29, 1948, edition of the Saturday Evening Post

 

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