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 Newest Additions - The latest acquisitions
Hollywood and Broadcasting Hilmes 1990 La Radiodifisusion Nationale Annuaire 1934  Radio's First Two Decades 1987 Television An International History Smith 1995  The Story of Modern Science Williams 1923 
       
Towers on the Prairie Mann Vol 2 1945-1979         
  A
       
Age of Broadcasting Radio 1997
As Good As Any
Hosley 1984
Air of Salvation
Ward 1994
The American Radio Industry And Its Latin American Activities 1900 1939 Schwoch 1990 Air Wars West 1993 1st Edition Air Wars West 1998 2nd Edition
Advertising Age
Special edition
Radio at 75
1995
Armed Forces Radio And Television  Broadcast Guide 1961  The Australian Broadcasting Commission
Fehlberg   1964
American Broadcasting
A Source Book
Lichty & Topping
1975
Arkansas Airwaves
Poindexter
1974  
A history of radio in pre-Castro Cuba
All About Amos 'n' Andy
Correll & Gosden
1939
Apuntes pára la Historia
(Radio History of Cuba)
Betancourt 1986
Annals
Radio: the Fifth Estate
1935
The Axis on the Air
Ettlinger   1943
American Broadcasting
Lichty & Topping
1975
American Broadcasting: A Source Book
Lichty   1975
The Airwaves of Zion
Radio and Religion in Appalachia
Dorgan 1993
Armstrong's Fight for FM Broadcasting
Erickson
1973
American Entertainment
Cauda
1978
The American Radio Industry and its Latin American Activities
Schwoch 1990
  B
The Big Broadcast 1920 1950 Buxton Owen 1997 The Big Broadcast 1920 1950 Buxton & Owen 1972 The Big Bands Simon 3rd Edition 1974 Big Voices of the Air Foust 2000
(Clear Channels)
The Birth of Radio in Canada McNeil 1982
Broadcast and Be Damned The ABC's First Two Decades Thomas 1980 Broadcasting in India
Aswathy 1965 
Broadcasting Freedom Savage 1999 Broadcasting From Within BBC Lewis 1924 Broadcast from the Front Powley 1975
Broadcasting & Television Since 1900
Gorham 1952
The Big Broadcast
1920 1959
Buxton & Owen 1972
The Best in Television
50 Years of Emmys
Gelman 1998
Berlin Calling
Edwards 1991
Broadcasting Television and Radio Kingson Cowgill Levy 1955 
Broadcasting Abroad
1934
Nat'l Advisory Council
Broadcasting from Within
C.A. Lewis 1924
Before Television: The Radio Years
Taylor 1979
Brief History of Radio
in Mexico (Spanish)
Mejía   2007
Behind the Tube: A History of Broadcasting Technology & Business
Inglis 1990
  Barnouw   History of Broadcasting
A Tower in Babel
Barnouw
1966
The Golden Web
Barnouw
1968
The Image Empire
Barnouw
1970
  C
 
Caminos del Aire UPR Rodriguez Bou 1951 CBS The First 50 Years 1998 Communications and Broadcasting Henderson 1997 CNN The Inside Story Whittmore 1990
Commercial Broadcasting Pioneer
WEAF
Banning 1946
Complete Encyclopedia of Television Programs 1947 1976 Vol. 1 Complete Encyclopedia of Television Programs 1947-1976 Vol. 2 CBS: The First 50 Years
Tony Chiu
CBS
Cavalcade of Broadcasting
Mitchell
197'0
The Communications Revolution
Gordon 1977
The Continuous Wave
Technology & American Radio
Aitken 1985
Charleston on the Air
Donehue 1999
Clear Vision
Bunzel
(Published by Clear Channel)
50 Ans de Radio 1936 1986 CBC Canada
  D
The Development of the Television Market RCA 1943 Dick Clark's The First 25 Years of Rock & Roll 1981
A Decade of Radio Advertising
Hettinger  1933
The Daylighter
Documents about proposed 9 kHz Separation in the us
The Development of Commercial Radio in San Diego - Crane - 1977 The Death of Lord Haw Haw (Fictionalized)
 Rutledge-1940
Don't Touch That Dial MacDonald 1978
  E
       
Encyclopedia of the Cavalcade of America DuPont Grams 1998
Eventful Decade
Cartoonist's version of James Petrillo - 1950
The Electric Word
The Rise of Radio
Schubert - 1928
Estamos en el Aire
Yepes
Stories of Venezuelan Radio
The Electric Word
The Rise of Radio
Schubert 1928
Encyclopedia of
Recorded Sound
Hoffman 1993
Empire of the Air
The Men Who Made Radio
Lewis 1991
Everybody's Guide to Broadcast Music
Scholes 1925
Encyclopedia of Daytime Television
Hyatt 1997
Experimental Wireless Stations Edelman 1922 The Early Days of Wheeler Hazeltine Wheeler 1982
  F
     
Fidel en Radio Rebelde 1979 From Compass to Computer
Atherton 1984
Fifties Television
Boddy 1993
The Fabulous Phonograph 1877 1977 Gelatt 1954 Fidel en Radio Rebelde
1979
From Coast to Coast Canada Stewart 1985 Five Seconds to Air Losure 1998
First Quarter Century of American Broadcasting
Shurick 1946
Forty Years of Advertising
N W Ayer - 1909
Farm Broadcasting
The First 60 Years
Baker - 1981
From Telegraphy to Television
Crawley - 1931
From Tin Foil to Stereo
Evolution of the Phonotraph
Read & Welch
Farm Broadcasting
The First 60 Years
Baker  1981
First Quarter Century of American Broadcasting
Shurick 1946
From Vaude to Video
Green & Laurie
1951
From Spark to Satellite
A History of Radio Communication
Leinwoll 1979
Fair Play CBS
Benjamin 1988
  G
 
Guinness Television Encyclopedia Evans 1995 Golden Throats and Silver Tongues Poindexter 1978 Great Moments in Television Aylesworth 1987 The Gas Pipe Network Bloch 1980
The Golden Web
Barnouw
1968
The Great Radio Heroes
Harmon - 1967
Courtesy Jerry Clegg
The Golden Years of Broadcasting
Campbell -1976
The Great Television Race (American Television 1925-1941)
Udelson
History of Radio
Archer
1938
 H
The History of the House of Siemens Vol 2 Siemens 1977 The History of the House of Siemens Vol 1 Siemens 1957 History of Broadcasting Harriman 1978 History of International Broadcasting Bowers 1992
A History of Public Broadcasting Behrens 2000  History of Television Marschall 1986  The History of Television Nardo Edit 2010 How Sweet it Is Shulman Youman 1966 The History of Public Broadcasting 1987
Hitler's Irish Voices
O'Donoghue 1988
Heavenly Days Fibber McGee & Molly
Stumpf 1987
The Hour of Prayer KTAB
Phillips 1928
The History of Broadcasting in Maine
Thompson 1990
A History of Radio In South Australia 1897 - 1088
1978 Ross
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History of Radio to 1926
Gleason Archer
1938 
(Warning: inaccurate)
History of Radio In Puerto Rico / Historia de la Radio en Puerto Rico.
J.L Torregrosa - 1991
History of Radio in Mississippi
Histoire de la Radio
et de la Television
Miquel-1972
How Sweet it Was
Shulman - 1966
History of Wireless
Sarkar / Maillou /Oliner/Salazar/ Sengupta
The History of Broadcasting in Maine
Thompson - 1990
The History of Broadcasting in the U S Davis 1928 History of Broadcasting in Japan
R&TVCRI
1967
A History of Wireless Telegraphy
Fahie 1901
 
  History of Wireless Telegraphy
1838-1899
Fahie - 1901
History of Wireless Telegraphy
Second Edition
1901
History of Broadcasting Radio and Television
Summers 1971
Hollywood & Broadcasting
From Radio To Cable
Hilmes
1990
Historical Dictionary of American Radio
Godfrey & Leigh 1998
  I
 
International Radio Broadcasting Browne 1982 An Introduction to Television 1941 Hylander Hardins
The Image Empire
Barnouw
1970
Inside ABC
Quinlan 1970
I Live on Air
Schechter & Anthony
1941
It Sounds Impossible
Slate - Cook
1963
Inventing American Broadcasting 1899-1922
Douglas
I Broadcast the Crisis
Kaltenborn
1938
I Looked & I Listened
Ben Gross
1970
It Sounds Impossible
Slate & Cook
1963
In the Public Interest
Hoosier Broadcasting
Weintraut & Nolan
I Looked and I Listened Gross 1970 
  J-K
     
     
  L
 
The Last Great Days of Radio
Woolley 1994
Lum & Abner Hall 2007 Listening In
Douglass 1999
Legendary Pioneers of Black Radio
Williams 1998
The Link with Home:
and the Germans Listened in.
2002
Legendary Pioneers of Black Radio
Gilberta Williams
Look Now, Pay Later
The Rise of Network Broadcasting
Bergreen 1980
The Last Great Days of Radio
Woolley 1994
Listening to Radio
1920-1950
Barfield 1996
  M
       
Mass Communications in the Caribbean
Lent 1990
 
 Magic Dials The Story of Radio and TV Lowell Thomas 1939 A History of the Marconi Company
Baker 1971
Mission of the Head Hunters Drown 1961 Ma Perkins Orphan Annie Hi Ho Silver Stumpf 1971 Minute by Minute 60 Minutes
Hewitt 1985
Music in Radio Broadcasting
Chase - 1946 
Men Against Distance
Floherty
1954
The Musicians and Petrillo
Leiter - 1953
The-Magic-Spark-1973-Walker Magic Dials
Lowell Thomas
1939 - Illustrated
The Mighty Music Box
De Long
198
Masters of Space
Walter Kellog
1917
The Miracle of Radio
Henslow
1946
Miracle of the Airwaves
Herron
1969
The Mighty Music Box the Golden Age of Musical Radio
DeLong 1980
  N
The Networks
Reel -1979
Nothing on the Radio 
Murray 2002
Norman Corwin and Radio the Golden Years Bannerman 1986 The Natural Bent
Fielden - 1960
History of AIR
Newspaper Row Kenny 1978
  O
 
On and off the Air Schoenbrun 1989 On the Air Pioneers of American Broadcasting Henderson 1988 Only Connect: A Cultural History of Broadcasting in the U. S. Hilmes 2002
 Old Fashioned
Revival Hour
Wright - 1940
On the Air - The Story of Radio.
Floherty
1937 
On the Air
Floherty
1937
The Outline of Radio
Hogan
1925
Old Wires and New Waves
Harlow 1936
One Nation Under Television
MacDonald 2nd 1990
The Origins of Irish Radio: 2RN - Pine - 2002 On the Air in World War II
MacVane 1979
The Old Fashioned Revival Hour Wright 1940 Out of the Bakelite Box Kent 1983 Australia
  P-Q
A Pictorial History of Radio In Canada Stewart 1975 Prairie Farmer and WLS Butler Years Evans 1969 Philco Radio 1928 1942 Ramirez 1993 Pittsburgh Early Radio Primetime Canada 1952 1967 Rutherford 1992
A Pictorial History of Radio In Canada
Stewart
1965
The Power Behind the Microphone
Eckersley - 1941  
A Pictorial History of Television
Settel & Laas 1969
Pictorial History of Radio
Settel
1960 Edition 
Pictorial History of Radio
Settel
1967 Edition  
A Pictorial History of Television
Blum - 1959
Remember Radio
Lackman
1970
The Panic Broadcast
Koch
1970
Pirate Radio Stations
Yoder 1990
The Pipers of Rock n Roll Smith 1989
  R
 
Radio Manufacturers of the 1920's Vol 1 Douglas 1988 Radio Manufacturers of the 1920's Vol 2 Douglas 1988 Radio Manufacturers of the 1920's Vol 3 Douglas 1991 Radio from 1927 to 1942 Wolff Jacobson 1987  
   
RCA Robert Sobel 1986 Radio in the Golden Age Buxton Owen 1966 Radio in the Golden Age Buxton Owen 1966
Radio? Dion 1922 Radio Goes To War The Fourth Front Rolo 1942 Radio Scrap Book Prayer Period 1946 Radio's Golden Years 1998 Bobb Lynes Radio and Religion Southern Baptist Convention 1983
Rebels on the Air
Walker 2000
Radio Warfare L Soley 1989 Radio Nation
Hayes 2000
Radiomovies Radiovision Television
C Francis Jenkins 1928
Radio's Golden Years Breese Lynes 1998
Radio The Remote Years
Hallhead 1981
Radio Workers
Heilher et al. 1940
Rockin' Down the Dial
Carson 1999
Radio
Richter 2000
Radio!
Poteet 1975
The Radio Industry:
The Story of its Development - 1928
Introduction by David Sarnoff
Advertising Age
Special edition
Radio at 75
1995
The Radio Decade
RCA
1930 
Dunlap's Radio & Television Almanac
Orrin Dunlap
1951
Rocking America
Sklar
1984
La Radio Antes
de la T.V.
Agular - 1991
Radio Radio
Radio in Ireland
1988
Radiodifusion en la Mitad del Mundo
San Félix - 1992
Radio Ink's
 "Radio 75th Birthday"
1995
Report on Blacklisting
Part II: Radio and TV
Cogley - 1954
RCA 30 Years of Pioneering and Progress
1949
Radio's Golden Age
Buxton & Owen - 1967
La Radio en Mendoza
Mendoza, Argentina
2018
Radio's Golden Years
Encyclopedia of Radio Programs
Terrace
Remember Television
Lackman
1971
RCA; A historical Perspective
1984
Radio: Miracle of the 20th Century
1922
Raised on Radio
Nachman
Radio's Conquest of Space
McNicol
1946
Radio Round the World
Haslett
1934
Radio! Radio!
Jonathan Hill
1986
2nd Edition
Radio and Television in Cuba
Salwen 1994
Radio Voices
Hilemes
1997
Radio Comedy
Wertheim - 1979
Remember Radio's
Golden Years
Breese & Lynnes 1998
  S
 
Setmakers Geddes
1991
Storytellers to the Nation Stempel 1992 The Story of Cheerio by Himself 1936  
See You on the Radio
Osgood 1999
Station to Station
Weingarten - 2000
Storytellers to the Nation
Stempel. 1992
Syntony and Spark The Origins of Radio Aitken 1976 The Story of Radio Dunlap 1927
The Story of Broadcasting
1924 - Burroughs 
The Story of Radio
Orrin Dunlap 1935
The Story of Radio
Ladybird Children's book
1968
Stay Tuned
Sterling & Kitross
1990 . 2nd Edition
Star Spangled Radio
Kirby & Harris
1948
Sky Waves
Far East Broadcasting Co.
Ledyard - 1963
The Sound and the Story
(NPR)
Looker - 1995
The Struggle for National Broadcasting in Canada
Weir 1965
The Story of Broadcasting
Burrows 1924
Sounds in the Air
Finkelstein 1993
  T
Television Today and Tomorrow Moseley 1933 Televisa Presenta 2006 Television Prime Time News Sports Greenfield 1977 Tube The Invention of Television Fisher 1996 Television: Seeing by Wireless
1926   Dinsdale
This is Colombo Calling 1924 1949  Pujitha 1990 The Talking Machine Weber -997 Texas Signs On Schroeder 1998 22 04 27 Television The First Fifty Years Greenfield 1977 The Telephone Hour A Retrospective Museum of Broadcasting 
 
A Tower in Babel Radio to 1933 Barnouw 1966   Total Television Programming 1948 1991 McNeil  Towers Over Kentucky Nash 1995 TV Mania Pavese Henry 1998 The Talking Machine Weber 1997
The Great Radio Comedians
Harmon 1970
Tube of Plenty
Barnouw 1990
The Third Floor Front
Greene 1969
Those Vintage Years of Radio
Snagge & Barsley 1972
This is Berlin
Shirer 199
 
Television - Seeing by Wireless
1926 - Dinsdale
A Tower in Babel
Barnouw
1966
Twenty-Five Years of British Broadcasting
By the BBC 1947
Towers to Eternity
Freed
1967
Tune In Yesterday
Dunning - 1976
Television: The First 50 Years
Greenfield
This is CBC
1946
10th Anniversary
This Thing Called Broadcasting
Goldsmith
1930
This Is London...
Hibbard
1951
Television Baird
Margaret Baird
1973
Televisionaries
(Story of Public Television)}
Robertson
Television and Radio
Tyler
1961
A Thirty-Year History of Programs Carried on National Radio Networks in the United States:1926-1956 Talking Radio
Keith 2001
Those Radio Commentators
Fang 1977
  U-V
Voice Over: The Making of Black Radio
Barlow 1999
Voices From Britain:
1939.1945
Krabbe 1937
Voices in the Darkness European Radio War Lean 1943 Voices on the Wind Early Radio in OKlahioma Allen 1993 Voices in the Big Sky Montana McDonald 1992
Voices in the Air
Downes & Harcourt
1976
Voice Under Every Palm
(Story of ELWA)
Reed
1968
Voices on the Wind
Early Radio in Oklahoma
Allen
Understanding Broadcasting
2nd Edition
Foster - 1978
Understanding Broadcasting
Foster - 1978
  W-X-Y-Z
Wartime Censorship of Press and Radio Summers 1942 Watching TV Four Decades of American TV Castleman Podrazik Wheelin' on Beale Cantor 1992 Worlds Without End Museum of Radio & TV Wodehouse at War Sproat 1981
You as a Broadcast Employee  War on the Short Wave
Graves - 1941
We´ll Have More Music Right After the News
Herbert
Who Was That Masked Man
Rothel - 1976
Why America Leads In radio
RCA 1922