RCA Corporation Records 2069

RCA Corporation records 2069

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Summary Information ...... 3 Historical Note ...... 3 Scope and Content ...... 11 Administrative Information ...... 14 Related Materials ...... 15 Controlled Access Headings ...... 15 Bibliography ...... 16 Collection Inventory ...... 16 Secretary's files ...... 16 Contract files ...... 16 Contract file analysis ...... 18 B.L. Aldridge files ...... 19 Histories & Background ...... 20 General Historical Files ...... 21 Museum Files ...... 33 Model Files ...... 35 Distribution & Allocation Records ...... 42 Chronological File of Sales & Marketing Materials ...... 47 Miscellany ...... 47 Oversize Materials ...... 47 Camden Technical Library files ...... 49 Technical Reports ...... 50 Engineering Notebooks ...... 60 Standards ...... 61 Publications & Manuals ...... 64

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Summary Information

Repository: Manuscripts and Archives Creator: RCA Corporation Source: Barnum, Frederick O., III Title: RCA Victor Camden/Frederick O. Barnum III collection ID: 2069 Date [inclusive]: 1887-1983 Date [bulk]: 1914-1968 Physical Description: 250 Linear Feet Language of the English, Spanish, German Material: Abstract: For over fifty years the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) was one of the country's leading manufacturers and vendors of radios, phonographs, televisions, and a wide array of consumer and military electronics products. The records of the RCA Corporation consist of three series: Secretary's files; B.L. Aldridge files; and the Camden Technical Library files. The collection is largely RCA technical reports, standards, engineering notebooks, manuals and miscellaneous publications. The Secretary's files document the formation of RCA. Aldridge's files deal almost entirely with the history of the Victor Talking Machine Company, RCA-Victor and the Camden Plant.

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Historical Note

The Radio Corporation of America was incorporated in Delaware on October 17, 1919, and changed its name to RCA Corporation on May 9, 1969. For over fifty years it was one of the country's leading manufacturers and vendors of radios, phonographs, televisions, and a wide array of consumer and military electronics products. Through subsidiaries, it operated the country's first radiotelegraph, radiotelephone and radio facsimile systems, as well as its pioneer radio and television networks. The company will always be identified with David Sarnoff (1891-1971), who began working for a predecessor company as an office boy in 1906, became vice president in 1922, president in 1930, and served as chairman from 1947 to 1970. Sarnoff was one of the first to grasp the full potential of radio and television and imparted to the company its reputation for research and innovation.

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The Beginnings of RCA

Prior to World War I, radio, which then meant long-distance radiotelegraphy, was in the hands of the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of America, formed in 1899 as an American subsidiary of the Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company, Ltd., based in England. It was a mere branch of the extensive wireless network established by radio pioneer Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937) and financed by British capital. During the war, the American government had seized the American Marconi stations, largely for the benefit of the Navy. At the close of hostilities, the Navy and its acting secretary Franklin D. Roosevelt strongly desired that control of America's radio facilities be in American hands. The General Electric Company had acquired the patents for the Alexanderson high-frequency alternator, which was necessary to provide the power for long-distance radio transmission, and had been negotiating the sale of these patent rights to British Marconi before the war. The Navy arranged a series of conferences in which it was agreed that General Electric would back the formation of a new American company to take over the Marconi operations and the necessary patents.

As a result of these negotiations, the Radio Corporation of America, controlled by GE, was incorporated on October 17, 1919, with Edward J. Nally of American Marconi as president. On November 20, 1919, RCA acquired all the assets of the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of America and signed a cross- licensing and patent-sharing agreement with General Electric. GE was to perform all manufacturing, and RCA was responsible only for sales and marketing of equipment and operating the radiotelegraph stations. Commercial radiotelegraph service was resumed beginning in 1920 and was gradually extended around the world. On November 5, 1921, RCA opened "Radio Central" at Rocky Point, Long Island, which served as its main transmitting station and first laboratory.

With government approval, two other cross-licensing agreements followed. On July 1, 1920, RCA and GE signed an agreement with the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T), under which RCA received AT&T's wireless patents and rights to the triode developed by Lee DeForest. AT&T received an interest in RCA and the use of RCA's and GE's telephone patents. On June 30, 1921, a similar tripartite agreement was signed with the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company, under which Westinghouse obtained a share of RCA in return for its radio patents, including the Armstrong "feedback" amplifier, which allowed for more sensitive reception and wider transmission. RCA also obtained the coastal transmission stations of Westinghouse's International Radio Telegraph Company at Belfast, Maine, Siasconset, Mass., New London, Conn., New York City, and Cape May, NJ With the completion of these patent-sharing arrangements, either RCA, GE or Westinghouse could manufacture and sell a complete set of radio equipment and operate broadcast stations.

Westinghouse's station KDKA received the first U.S. commercial broadcast license on October 27, 1920. RCA made its first permanent broadcast at station WDY at Roselle Park, NJ on December 15, 1921. After a few months, the station was merged with Westinghouse's WJZ at Newark, NJ, to avoid interference.

In 1922, retired Gen. James G. Harbord replaced Nally as president and David Sarnoff was named vice president & general manager. Sarnoff had already advocated expanding radio from a hobby in which persons assembled their own sets from part to a packaged system of home entertainment. That year, RCA began selling GE's line of home radio products, and in 1923 introduced its "Radiola" line of deluxe home radios. The first superheterodyne set followed a year later. RCA successfully transmitted the first photograph from New York to London and back on July 6, 1924, and in 1926 RCA began a commercial

- Page 4- RCA Corporation records 2069 transatlantic radio facsimile service. In 1927, RCA introduced the Radiotron tube, the first to operate on alternating current, eliminating the need for batteries and making possible the mass-marketing of home radios.

National Broadcasting Company, Inc.

At this time, AT&T was pursuing an independent course, hoping to develop a radio network using its long-distance telephone lines to distribute programming, and to this end it had established station WEAF in New York. To eliminate this threat, RCA, GE and Westinghouse joined to purchase WEAF on July 1, 1926. On September 9, 1926, they organized a joint subsidiary, the National Broadcasting Company, Inc. (NBC), which assumed operation of WEAF and RCA stations WJZ in New York and WRC in Washington, D.C. NBC produced its own programs and marketed them to other stations, forming the nucleus of the country's first broadcast radio network. NBC inaugurated its "Red" network with a broadcast to twenty-five stations in twenty-one cities from the old Waldorf-Astoria Hotel on November 15, 1926, with WEAF as the flagship station. Two month's later, NBC formed the smaller "Blue" network with WJZ as the flagship station. NBC staged the first coast-to-coast broadcast of the Rose Bowl game on January 1, 1927.

RCA Photophone, Inc.

In 1925, the Warner Brothers had organized the Vitaphone Corporation to provide synchronized musical sound tracks for motion pictures using separate phonograph disks. The original system, developed by the Western Electric Company, was crude, and the records tended to get out of synch with the film. General Electric demonstrated its "Pallophotophone" system, in which the sound track was printed onto the same film as the movie, in September 1927 and introduced it commercially in early 1928 as "Photophone." RCA Photophone, Inc. was incorporated on Apri14, 1928, to develop and market the Photophone system.

As the Vitaphone and Photophone systems were incompatible, and Warners already controlled a theater chain, RCA was obliged to ally itself with a chain as well. With the aid of Joseph P. Kennedy, RCA made an agreement with the Keith-Albee-Orpheum Corporation, the owners of a struggling chain of vaudeville houses and movie theaters, and its affiliates, the F.B.O. Pictures Corporation and F.B.O. Productions, Inc. Radio-Keith-Orpheum Corporation (RKO) was incorporated as an overarching holding company on October 25, 1928, with RCA taking a twenty percent share and David Sarnoff as chairman. F.B.O. Productions, Inc. became R.K.O. Productions, Inc., in 1929 and R.K.O. Radio Pictures, Inc., in 1930. RKO secured the rights to Photophone and advertising through the NBC radio network. RCA eventually sold its RKO stock, half in 1935 and half in 1943.

RCA Photophone, Inc., eventually signed contracts with eight theater chains and their associated movie studios. On July 22, 1930, American and German manufacturers and movie production companies, including RCA Photophone, Inc., and RKO, signed a patent pooling agreement providing for international interchangeability of sound track technology. All production companies were to have access to all American and German technology. American manufacturers received exclusive rights to supply North America, Russia, Australasia and India, while German companies were given exclusive rights in the Germanic countries and Eastern Europe. All other countries might purchase from either bloc.

Other Subsidiaries

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The Radiomarine Corporation of America was incorporated on December 31, 1927 to perform RCA's growing ship-to-shore radiotelegraph business. RCA Communications, Inc., was incorporated on January 3, 1929, to operate commercial transoceanic radiotelegraph, radiotelephone and radio facsimile services.

Victor Talking Machine Company

On March 15, 1929, RCA gained control of the Victor Talking Machine Company of Camden, NJ, for 54 million through an exchange of shares in order to obtain Victor's manufacturing facilities, dealer network and contract artists.

The Victor Talking Machine Company was incorporated in New Jersey on October 3, 1901, by Eldridge Reeves Johnson (1867-1945), a machinist. In 1896, Johnson had become a subcontractor for the "gramophone" invented by Emile Berliner (1851-1929) and manufactured in Philadelphia by the Berliner Gramophone Company. Because of patent and licensing disputes involving the gramophone, Johnson produced his own record player and records under the "Victor" label in 1900. The Victor Talking Machine Company combined the Johnson and Berliner patents. European sales rights were granted to Berliner's Gramophone Company, Ltd., in London. Victor also acquired the rights to the Gramophone Company's trademark, originally a painting by the artist Francis Barraud (1856-1924) depicting his fox terrier Nipper listening to a gramophone entitled, "His Master's Voice."

Victor moved rapidly to become the leading U.S. manufacturer of phonographs and phonograph records. It established its first recording studio at Carnegie Hall in New York its first high-quality "Red Seal" records in 1903, and in the following year City and produced made the first American recordings of the Italian tenor Enrico Caruso. Caruso became the anchor of a distinguished roster of operatic and popular musical artists on the Victor label.

Victor introduced its first "Victrola" in 1906, featuring fine cabinet work that would not be out of place in upper middle class parlors. The company opened a recording studio and research laboratory in Camden in 1907, and by 1911, the Camden facility had grown into a fully-integrated factory complex of twenty-two buildings. By the early 1920s, however, sales were stagnant because of inroads made by the free radio broadcasting of music and other entertainment. Deluxe radios like RCA's 1923 "Radiola" usurped the place of the Victrola in many homes. In 1925, Victor contracted with RCA to manufacture a line of combined radios and phonographs in one cabinet. The following year, Victor also contracted with the Warner Brothers' Vitaphone Corporation to provide synchronized recordings for talking motion pictures.

On January 6, 1927, a banking syndicate of Speyer & Company and J. & W. Seligman purchased control of the Victor Talking Machine Company from Eldridge Johnson, and then offered the shares to the public. Two years later, the Radio Corporation of America acquired the Victor Talking Machine Company. RCA incorporated the Radio-Victor Corporation of America in Maryland on April 25, 1929, to act as a sales company. Manufacturing at Camden was conducted by the Audio Vision Appliance Company, incorporated in New Jersey on April29, 1929, and owned by GE and Westinghouse in a 60/40 ratio.

On December 26, 1929, RCA, GE and Westinghouse agreed to unify all research, manufacturing and sales of radios, phonographs, vacuum tubes, and television. Vladimir K. Zworykin (1889-1982), a émigré Russian electrical engineer working for Westinghouse, had already developed the "iconoscope" or

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On the same date, RCA was restructured to create a fully integrated company with research, manufacturing and sales facilities. The RCA Victor Company, Inc., was incorporated in Maryland and assumed the manufacturing activities of the Audio Vision Appliance Company and the sales function of Radio-Victor Corporation of America, plus title to the Victor Talking Machine Company plants in Camden and Oakland, Calif. The RCA Radiotron Company, Inc., assumed operation of the former GE tube works at Harrison, NJ, and the Westinghouse plant at Indianapolis. All radio research at the old RCA lab at Van Cortlandt Park, New York City, GE at Schenectady, and Westinghouse at East Pittsburgh was consolidated at Camden, and all tube research was moved to Harrison.

In purchasing the Victor Talking Machine Company, RCA also obtained Victor's 1920 half interest in Britain's Gramophone Company, Ltd. (later consolidated with the Columbia Graphophone Company, Ltd., to form Electric and Musical Industries Limited), and well as the Victor Talking Machine Company of Canada, Ltd., the Victor Talking Machine Company of Japan, Ltd. (Nihon Bikuta Kabushiki Kaisha), and other foreign subsidiaries. RCA sold its holdings in EMI in 1935. With militarists in power in Tokyo, RCA sold its 68 percent interest in Japanese Victor to Nihon Sangyo (later Nissan Motor Company) and Tokyo Shibaura Electric (later Toshiba) in 1936-38. Japanese Victor (NC) played a role analogous to RCA's and went on to develop the VHS system of home videotape recording in the 1970s.

Antitrust and Innovation

The federal government, which had fostered the formation of RCA in 1919, had become alarmed at its growth, and on May 31, 1930, it began antitrust proceedings against the patent pooling arrangements at the foundation of the company. After two years, the suit was settled out of court on November 21, 1932. Under the consent decree, RCA retained all of its patents but repaid or cancelled its outstanding debts to GE and Westinghouse. GE and Westinghouse distributed their RCA shares to their own stockholders, AT&T having disposed of its RCA shares some years before. The GE heritage lingered only in NBC's trademark three-note chime, G-E-C. General Electric soon developed a competing line of radios and other consumer electronics.

RCA moved its headquarters into the new 60-story RCA Building on June 2, 1933. NBC and state-of-the art NBC broadcasting studios followed in November. The RCA Building was the principal structure in Rockefeller Center and gave the complex its alternate name of "Radio City."

The RCA Radiotron Company, Inc., absorbed the E.T. Cunningham Company in 1931. RCA Photophone, Inc., was merged into RCA Victor Company, Inc. in January 1932, and on December 15, 1934, the RCA Manufacturing Company, Inc., was formed in Delaware into which the RCA Victor Company, Inc., and RCA Radiotron Company, Inc., were merged as divisions.

RCA suffered in the worst years of the Depression, but recovered relatively quickly after 1933. David Sarnoff, who had become president in 1930, spent liberally on research while cutting back in other areas. Television was only the most prominent of RCA's research initiatives, with the first public demonstration being staged on April 20, 1939, at RCA's pavilion at the New York World's Fair. NBC launched the first commercial television station, WNBT at New York on May 2, 1941. Concurrently with this work, RCA built and installed a complete television station for Moscow in 1936-38. Substantial work was done on color television, but further development of commercial television, whether black & white

- Page 7- RCA Corporation records 2069 or color, was halted by World War II. Camden researchers tackled FM (frequency modulation) radio beginning in 1930, and the first experimental FM station, W2XWG, went on the air in New York in January 1940. Vladimir Zworykin and James Hillier produced the first electron microscope in April 1940. Groundbreaking work was done in microwave communications, radar and sonar. A fuller list of RCA's technical achievements will be found in the notes to Record Group II.

In order to consolidate research efforts, RCA formed a new division called RCA Laboratories in March 1941 and constructed a new research center at Princeton in 1942. In 1941, the FCC ruled that NBC's ownership of two radio networks constituted a monopoly. RCA and NBC sold the weaker Blue Network Company, Inc., to Edward Noble in 1943, and he reorganized it as the American Broadcasting Company (ABC). Flagship station WJZ became WABC.

World War and Cold War.

America's entry into World War II permanently changed the nature of RCA. Development of commercial television and radio projects ceased, and the company became a major military contractor. Much of the research of the Depression years was now turned to military uses. To meet the military demand for electron tubes, the Navy constructed a plant at Lancaster, Pa., that RCA operated and purchased at the war's end. RCA worked with the Navy Bureau of Ordnance to develop and manufacture proximity fuses at a new plant in Bloomington, Ind. In order to better coordinate manufacturing activities, the RCA Manufacturing Company, Inc., was merged into RCA as the RCA Victor Division on December 31, 1942.

During the war, RCA developed and produced the SHORAN (Short Range Navigation) system, airborne radar and television equipment, automatic fire control, and military communication systems. RCA Communications, Inc., provided wireless communications between America and the front lines. Wartime research and development produced a new generation of electronics for both military and civilian use.

RCA's postwar conversion to civilian production was rapid, particularly in the area of television, with the first mass-produced commercial set going on the market in 1946, the same year in which NBC started the first U.S. television network. Commercial color television was perfected between 1945 and 1953, but RCA received a major setback when the FCC approved CBS's rival mechanical system as the standard in 1950. The CBS system offered better picture quality but, unlike RCA's all-electronic system, was not compatible with black & white broadcasting. RCA worked on improving its picture quality and lobbied through the National Television Standards Committee and finally succeeded in having the FCC approve its system in December 1953. NBC broadcast the Tournament of Roses Parade in color nationwide on January 1, 1954, and opened its "Color City" studios in Burbank, Calif., in the following year. In 1954, the Home Instruments Department and the RCA Service Company, Inc., relocated from Camden to a new suburban facility in nearby Cherry Hill, NJ The new building contained a public exhibit, the RCA Hall of Progress, with actual models displaying the evolution of record players, radios, and other home instruments.

Research in solid state physics during the 1930s and 1940s led to the invention of the transistor by Bell Laboratories in 1948. RCA entered the field of semiconductor research almost immediately and established a Semiconductor Division for manufacturing in 1953. It scored its first successes with photoconductors that would be potentially useful in television camera tubes, but its research efforts also

- Page 8- RCA Corporation records 2069 embraced thermoelectric, luminescent and magnetic materials, and materials exhibiting the photovoltaic effect. RCA developed new types of transistors and applied the new technology across its product lines.

RCA was also an early entrant into the field of electronic computers. RCA Laboratories produced the "Selectron," an electron tube with 256 memory elements, in 1947, and the "Graphophon," a visual memory tube in 1949. RCA produced the largest electronic analog computer ever built as part of the Navy's "Project Typhoon" in November 1950 and the "BIZMAC" computer data processing system in 1955. The RCA 501 of 1958 was the first fully-transistorized computer system.

During the early 1950s, RCA expanded its traditional line of consumer electronics to include other types of electric household appliances. RCA purchased the Estate Heatrola Division (gas and electric ranges and space heaters) from the Noma Electric Corporation in November 1952 and introduced its own line of air conditioners and dehumidifiers the same year. On September 15, 1955, RCA merged its stove and air conditioner business with the Whirlpool Corporation and Seeger Refrigerator Company to form the Whirlpool-Seeger Corporation, later the Whirlpool Corporation. RCA sold most of its Whirlpool stock between 1962 and 1964.

However, the company's greatest change in the 1950s came about as a result of the permanent rearmament and arms race that accompanied the Korean War and Cold War. RCA became a major military and aerospace contractor. In addition to radar, sonar, and military communications and sensing equipment, RCA developed missile guidance and checkout equipment. In 1958, it established an Astra-Electronic Products Division which produced weather and communications satellites and later contributed to lunar and Mars probes and the lunar missions of Project Apollo. Also in 1958, RCA received the primary contract to develop the Ballistic Missile Early Warning System (BMEWS), a chain of radar stations across the Arctic. The Missile Electronics & Controls Department established a new plant in Burlington, Mass., in 1958, and the West Coast Electronics Center opened in Van Nuys, Calif., two years later. Van Nuys worked on missile checkout, radar navigation, electronic countermeasures and the Saturn V launch vehicle. By 1962, aerospace and defense projects employed a quarter of RCA's workforce and accounted for a third of earnings.

Debacle and Demise.

David Sarnoff's son Robert succeeded to the presidency in 1966 and was named CEO in 1968. The younger Sarnoff began a program of conglomerate diversification, acquiring publisher Random House, Inc., and the Hertz Corporation rental car business in 1966. In a makeover designed to erase its historic connection with radio, the Radio Corporation of America became RCA Corporation on May 9, 1969. A modernist block letter logo replaced the old circle with lightning bolt, and the company also retired the familiar "Nipper" and "His Master's Voice" trademarks. After Robert succeeded his ailing father as chairman in January 1970, the acquisitions continued apace: Banquet Foods, Inc., commercial real estate agent Cushman & Wakefield, Inc., and home furnishings manufacturer Coronet Industries, Inc. Robert Sarnoff also began an ill-fated push to make RCA the number two computer manufacturer, but after only a year, RCA sold its entire computer business to Sperry Univac in 1971-73.

The color television market, that had sustained the company through the 1960s, had now matured, and Japanese imports began claiming ever larger shares of the U.S. market for consumer electronics. Still, RCA continued to improve its consumer products, but solid state research, military electronics, aerospace and telecommunications were the main growth areas during Robert Sarnoff's tenure. RCA Communications, Inc., became RCA Global Communications, Inc. ("Globcom") in 1969. The RCA

- Page 9- RCA Corporation records 2069 Satcom System introduced domestic satellite telecommunications in the U.S. on December 21, 1973, using leased transponders on other satellites. Satcom I was launched on December 12, 1975, and Satcom II on March 26, 1976. RCA American Communications, Inc. was created to operate this domestic system.

RCA was badly hit by the depression and inflation of the mid-1970s. Ironically, Sarnoff's new acquisitions fared better than most of RCA's traditional electronics business. The company ceased manufacturing audio equipment (radios, phonographs, tape recorders and players) in 1975, and between 1971 and 1976 jettisoned Cushman & Wakefield, the Graphic Systems Division, the Solid State Division's liquid crystal operation, the RCA Institutes training school, 16-mm. projectors and microwave devices. The Harrison, NJ receiving tube plant closed in April1976.

In November 1975, the RCA board demanded and received Robert Sarnoff's resignation. His successor, Anthony L. Conrad, lasted less than a year, when it became known that he had filed no income tax returns for the years 1971-75. Edgar H. Griffiths, a career executive concerned with short-term profits, became president and CEO in September 1976. Griffiths restored a modernized version of "His Master's Voice" in 1978, but otherwise pursued a program of divestiture and downsizing. In 1980, Random House, Inc., was sold to Newhouse Publications and Banquet Foods, Inc., to Conagra, Inc. In the same year, however, Griffiths bought C.I.T. Financial Corporation, a financial services conglomerate in the hope of dampening RCA's traditionally cyclical earnings. Instead, the purchase caused RCA to lose its "A" credit rating. A year later, the board ousted Griffiths and named Thornton F. Bradshaw of American Richfield Company chairman and CEO. Robert R. Frederick, formerly of General Electric, was named president.

Bradshaw and Frederick continued the divestiture program: Avionics Systems and Mobile Communications in 1981, C.I.T. Financial Corporation in 1984, and the Hertz Corporation in 1985. RCA Records became RCN Ariola International, a joint venture with Bertelsmann AG of Germany in 1984.

On June 9, 1986, RCA Corporation was acquired by General Electric in the then largest merger outside the oil industry. Under terms set by the Justice Department and the FCC, GE was obliged to sell its vidicon tube business, and NBC, which became a GE subsidiary, was required to sell five radio stations in New York, Chicago and Washington. NBC sold its radio network to Westwood One, Inc. in 1987 and disposed of its individual radio stations to unrelated operators. GE sold Coronet Industries in December 1986. Bertelsmann AG acquired the remaining interest in RCA/Ariola International in 1986, and GE sold the former GE and RCA consumer electronics business to Thomson S.A. of France and RCA Global Communications, Inc. to MCI Communications Corporation in 1987. RCA's New Products Division was spun off to an independent company, the Detek Corporation, which purchased RCA's old Lancaster facility. Also in 1987, GE donated the David Sarnoff Research Center in Princeton to SRI International of Menlo Park, Calif. The Solid State Division was sold to Harris Corporation in 1988. GE integrated those portions of RCA's former operations that meshed with its own business strategy, principally domestic satellite communications, defense and aerospace, with their GE counterparts. The NBC television network became a GE subsidiary, and the RCA Building became the General Electric Building.

In 1991, GE signed an agreement with the City of Camden to develop a new office site on former Campbell Soup Company property at Third and Market Streets. Most of the old Camden Plant was then razed for redevelopment, but Building No. 17 with its landmark tower with "His Master's Voice" stained

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B.L. Aldridge

B.L. Aldridge was an employee of the Victor Talking Machine Company of Camden, NJ and later Manager of Sales and Administration of Home Instruments for the Victor Division of RCA. From the early 1950s to 1959, Aldridge also functioned as a part-time company historian. During this time he used his long familiarity with Victor's consumer products, mostly radios and record players, to amass a collection of historic and significant Victor and RCA instruments which were then used in traveling promotional displays and later installed in a "Hall of Progress" exhibit at RCA's new facility in Cherry Hill. Aldridge also researched and wrote exhibit labels, brief model histories and several company histories.

History of RCA Research Facilities

At its formation, RCA had no research facilities, relying on obtaining the right to use technologies patented by General Electric, Westinghouse or AT&T. It had established a Technical & Test Department at 242nd Street in the Bronx near Van Cortlandt Park in 1924. This department consisted of two groups, one under Arthur Van Dyck that handled design coordination of radio apparatus submitted by GE and Westinghouse, and a radio research and development group under Julius Weinberger.

The 1929 purchase of the Victor Talking Machine Company gave RCA its first substantial manufacturing and research facility, and all radio research formerly conducted at Van Cortlandt Park was concentrated there The Victor Talking Machine Company established its first research laboratory at Camden in 1907. With the formation of RCA Victor Company, mc., in 1929, Camden research fell under its Engineering Department. In 1934, it became the RCA Victor Division of the RCA Manufacturing Company, Inc., and in 1942, the RCA Victor Division of RCA.

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Scope and Content

The records of the RCA Corporation consist of three series: Secretary's files; B.L. Aldridge files; and the Camden Technical Library files. The collection is largely RCA technical reports, standards, engineering notebooks, manuals and miscellaneous publications. The Secretary's files document the formation of RCA. Aldridge's files deal almost entirely with the history of the Victor Talking Machine Company, RCA-Victor and the Camden Plant.

Secretary's files is organized into two subseries: Contract file; Contract file analysis. This series consists of documents removed from the Secretary's Contract File because of supposed historical value. At some point after 1980, they became associated with the B.L. Aldridge file in Series II, but were not part of them.

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The first subseries of original contracts and agreements pertain to the formation of RCA between 1919 and 1932. This includes prior rights acquired from the Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company Limited , the construction of American transmission stations by the Marconi; world radio communication rights; the dissolution of the American Marconi company; disputes over the Marconi and Alexanderson alternator patents; the disputes among RCA, GE and Westinghouse; and the antitrust suit.

The second subseries, "Contract File Analysis," consists of copies of cover sheets from the Contract File giving the contract number, the name of the parties and an abstract of the action. The series appears to have been produced in 1929-1933 at the time of the antitrust suit, when RCA became an independent company for the purpose of determining which agreements should be assigned to which of the new RCA subsidiaries and which were no longer in force.. The sheets include most of the important contracts entered into by RCA or inherited from predecessors down to early 1933. The oldest contract is dated 1887.

B. L. Aldridge files is arranged into eight subseries: Histories and background; General historical files; Museum files; Model files; Distribution and allocation records; Chronological files of sales and marketing materials; Miscellany; and Oversized materials. The records consist of documents created and collected by Aldridge as both historian and Manager of Sales.

Histories and background subseries include general histories of RCA and RCA Victor and a notebook of general operating and sales statistics.

General historical files contain information about the history of Victor and RCA Victor including advertisements; miscellaneous products; the Nipper trademark and its originator Francis Barraud; the Berliner Gramophome Company and its patents; other phonograph, radio and record manufacturers; the company's various plants and facilities; Victor recording artists including Enrico Caruso and Arturo Toscanini; the development of color television; Victor founder Eldridge Johnson; the "Hall of Progress"; and recordings.

Museum files are concerned with the creation and administration of the colleciton of radios and phonographs.

Model files document models produced by Victor and RCA Victor. Materials contained in this series include trade catalogs, tearsheets, short manuscripts of the model's history and significance written by Aldridge, exhibit labels and adverisements.

Distribution and allocation records contain extensive information about RCA's policies for allocating instruments to dealers during World War II shortages. Also included in the series is information about dealer and distributor sales and discounts, product distribution, production control, field personnel, sales comparisons, sales training and seasonal trends.

Miscellaneous records include the 1963-1964 product line catalog, the "Computer Systems 1971 Business Plan" and a brief run of the company newsletter "Notes from Nipper."

Oversized items include a scrapbook of advertising (1913-1915) featuring Victor Victrolas and recording artists, a scrapbook for the Camden's Plant's job safety program (1955), tear sheets and advertisements.

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The Camden Technical Library files series represent a selection from the contents of the former RCA technical library located on the sixth floor of Building 10 of the Camden Plant assembled with the cooperation of company historian Frederick O. Barnum III. The materials are organized into four subseries: Technical reports; Engineering notebooks; Standards; and Publications and manuals.

Following RCA's original practice, all of the technical reports in this subseries have been cataloged individually on Hagley's OPAC and may be accessed by author, title and subject or free-text searches. If you know the serial number of a report, you may locate it using a "keyword" search by placing the number within quotation marks, e.g. "PTR-2". Likewise, you may use "keyword" searching for the name or location of an individual laboratory, department or division or any other significant phrase. The report runs generally end in 1969-1975 and are not complete.

The reports collected in the Camden library were generated by work in many RCA laboratories on a wide array of commercial and military subjects. Some report series are the work of a single facility, while other collect the work from many different facilities. The bulk of the reports were generated at Princeton and Camden, but the Camden library collected copies from most of the other research facilities in the system. Reports generated in the Camden Plant come from both the Commercial and Aerospace & Defense Groups. The former deal with research in radio, black and white and color television, sound recording, the "Photophone" system of motion picture sound tracks, "Electrofax", and computers, Many of the reports deal with basic research into electronic components and the materials used therein, from vacuum tubes to solid state and superconductors. The Aerospace & Defense reports deal with radar, sonar, air traffic control, surveillance systems, communications, weather and spy satellites, ICBM's, military communications systems, hardware for the lunar and Mars missions, and designs for space stations and space vehicles.

All of the reports are highly technical in nature with heavy use of equations, graphs, and diagrams. Most cannot be read without a background in electronics engineering. The exceptions are a sizeable number of reports generated by trips to European laboratories and RCA's European licensees which discuss the state of research in electronics and computers, the development of television broadcasting, and the growth of markets for consumer electronics. RCA engineers kept abreast of developments at most of the major manufacturers and research institutes in Great Britain, France, the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland and Italy and some contacts with the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.

Most of the reports are highly focused on very narrow problems, or very specific properties of materials and parts of larger devices. Thus it would be necessary to peruse a large number of the reports to get a sense of the larger directions in RCA's research or understand which experiments were commercially successful. Only a small minority of the reports describe the functioning of large pieces of apparatus that a non-specialist would recognize or the state of research on a broad topic.

The engineering notebooks comprise volumes issued to engineers of the RCA Manufacturing Company, Inc. and, after 1942, the RCA Victor Division of RCA. The notebooks contain a log of work done with sketches of apparatus.

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The Publications and manuals is futher organized into six sub-subseries of miscellaneous publications and manuals are almost random samples. They include product news bulletins and a series of computer operating and programming manuals. Historical miscellany includes a history of the Advanced Technological Laboratories, a paper on RCA's contributions to the space program, copies of two architectural articles on buildings in the Camden Plant, and programs from award ceremonies. "Instructions" are short operating instructions for RCA devices or looseleaf trade catalog pages for an assortment of electronic components. Finally there are series of training manuals prepared by RCA Institutes, Inc., including ones on computer programming and television repair.

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Administrative Information

Publication Statement Manuscripts and Archives

PO Box 3630 Wilmington, Delaware 19807 [email protected] URL: http://www.hagley.org/library

Provenance Company historian Frederick O. Barnum III salvaged a large group of materials (Boxes 1-288) from the abandoned photo lab on the 4th floor of Building 10 of the RCA Camden Plant, after the plant had been vacated and abandoned by successor company Martin Marietta Corporation in April 1993. Barnum donated two more groups of material to Hagley on 17 December 1993 (Boxes 304-310) and 19 May 1994 (Boxes 311-313).

The files of previous company historian B.L. Aldridge and the Secretary's Contract File (Boxes 289-303) were donated on 17 September 1993 by an individual who salvaged them from the company's defunct "Hall of Progress" exhibit in Cherry Hill, New Jersey.

Access Restrictions Some records closed for 25 years from date of creation.

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Related Materials

Separated Material Books, trade journals and company publications were transferred to the Published Collections Department.

Frederick O. Barnum III collection of RCA Victor Company negatives (Accession 1995.220), Audiovisual Collections and Digital Initiatives Department, Hagley Museum and Library.

Related Material David Sarnoff Library collection (Accession 2464), Manuscripts and Archives Department, Hagley Museum and Library.

Nicholas F. Pensiero Papers (Accession 2138), Manuscripts and Archives Department, Hagley Museum and Library.

A collection of laboratory, advertising and company publication, including Voice of the Victor, may be found at the Camden County Historical Society, Park Blvd. & Euclid Ave., Camden, New Jersey 08103.

RCA's former collection of historic instruments and other RCA-Victor memorabilia is now located at the Johnson Victrola Museum in Dover, Delaware.

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Controlled Access Headings

• Electronic industries • Radio • Phonograph industry • Television • Household electronics • Reports • Research, Industrial. • Barnum, Frederick O., III • Victor Talking Machine Company

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Bibliography

Barnum, Frederick 0., "His Master's Voice" in America: Ninety Years of Communications Pioneering and Progress: Victor Talking Machine Company; Radio Corporation of America; General Electric Company (Camden, NJ: General Electric Company, 1991). Moody's Industrial Manuals, 1931-1998. RCA: An Historical Perspective (n.p.: RCA Corporation, 1978) "RCA Corporation," International Directory of Company Histories, v. 2, pp. 88-90.

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Collection Inventory

Secretary's files, 1887-1933 Scope and Contents

Secretary's files series is organized into two subseries: Contract file; Contract file analysis. This series consists of documents removed from the Secretary's Contract File because of supposed historical value. At some point after 1980, they became associated with the B.L. Aldridge file in Series II, but were not part of them.

Controlled Access Headings: • Antitrust law • Corporate reorganizations

Contract files, 1887-1933 Scope and Content

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of American transmission stations by the Marconi; world radio communication rights; the dissolution of the American Marconi company; disputes over the Marconi and Alexanderson alternator patents; the disputes among RCA, GE and Westinghouse; and the antitrust suit.

Title/Description Instances Memorandum, 1980 box 8 Scope and Contents note

Contains memorandum about removing the records in this series from the company's active files.

Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company, Ltd., 1900-1919 box 8 Scope and Contents note

Includes with Marconi Imitational Marine Communication Company; Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of America; General Electric Company; formation of RCA

World Communication Rights, 1920-1921 box 8 Scope and Contents note

Re world territorial and patent rights to radio communications.

Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company, Ltd. - American High box 8 Power Station, 1912-1919

Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of America, 1917-1945 box 8 Scope and Contents note

includes agreements with General Electric for formation of RCA and correspondence re patent suits of Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of America vs. United States and Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of America vs. Emil J. Simon.

Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of America Acquisition, box 8 1919-1920

Alexanderson Alternator at New Brunswick Station, 1917-1927 box 8

Antitrust Settlement and Agreements with General Electric and box 241 Westinghouse, 1932-1933 Scope and Contents note

includes basic agreement, consent decree, stipulation, amendments, defendants' affidavits, broadcasting agreement.

Alexanderson Alternator Patents and Formation of RCA, box 241 1919-1934

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Scope and Contents note

Re disputes over patents for the Alexanderson alternator; the formation of RCA Victor, and the transfer of stock and debentures among RCA, Westinghouse and General Electric.

Antitrust Decree and Agreements, 1932-1953 box 241 Scope and Contents note

includes disputes about GE patents and RCA licensing agreements, the RCA-GE-Westinghouse consent decree, and suits against the agreements between RCA, GE and Westinghouse.

Correspondence with Compagnie Française Thomson-Houston box 241 re Photophone, 1929-1941

Radio Corporation of American and Marconi Telegraph-Cables box 241 Company, Inc. - Right of Way Vouchers

Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of America - List box 241 of Employees Who Have Signed Agreements re Rights to Inventions, 1929

Radio Corporation of America - List of Employees Who Have box 241 Signed Agreements re Rights to Inventions, 1929

Contract file analysis Scope and Content

The second subseries, "Contract File Analysis", consists of copies of cover sheets from the Contract File giving the contract number, the name of the parties and an abstract of the action. The subseries appears to have been produced in 1929-1933 at the time of the antitrust suit, when RCA became an independent company for the purpose of determining which agreements should be assigned to which of the new RCA subsidiaries and which were no longer in force. The sheets include most of the important contracts entered into by RCA or inherited from predecessors down to early 1933. The oldest contract is dated 1887.

Title/Description Instances No. 1-440 to 1929 box 241

Supplement I. No. 1-389, 1930 box 241

Supplement II., No. 1-410, 1930 box 242

Supplement III., No. 1-501, 1931-1933 box 242 Scope and Contents note

Building Leases.

Expired Contracts box 242

For Further Study box 242

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Marconi Company, 1914-1929 box 242 Processing Notes: Processing Notes

Not to be assigned.

Radio Real Estate Corporation of America, 1932 box 242

Radiomarine Corporation of America, 1914-1933 box 242

Radiotron Sales & License Agreements, 1929-1930 box 242

RCA Communications, Inc., 1887-1933 box 242

RCA Institutes, Inc. - Special File, 1929-1933 box 242

RCA Photophone, Inc. box 242

Sales & License Agreements, 1928-1929 box 242

Subsidiary Company File, 1931-1933 box 242

Telephone Service Contracts box 242

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B.L. Aldridge files, 1897-1980 Physical Description: 10.5 Linear Feet Biographical note

B.L. Aldridge was an employee of the Victor Talking Machine Company of Camden, New Jersey and later Manager of Sales and Administration of Home Instruments for the Victor Division of RCA. From the early 1950s to 1959, Aldridge also functioned as a part-time company historian. During this time he used his long familiarity with Victor's consumer products, mostly radios and record players, to amass a collection of historic and significant Victor and RCA instruments which were then used in traveling promotional displays and later installed in a "Hall of Progress" exhibit at RCA's new facility in Cherry Hill. Aldridge also researched and wrote exhibit labels, brief model histories and several company histories.

Scope and Content

Consist of materials prepared or collected by B.L. Aldridge as company historian, including a small group of records extracted from the Secretary's contract file, all of which refer to the history of RCA Victor and its products. There are also records from Aldridge's official duties as Manager of Sales & Administration relating to the production, distribution, sales and marketing of home instruments.

Histories and background subseries include general histories of RCA and RCA Victor and a notebook of general operating and sales statistics.

Company and its patents; other phonograph, radio and record manufacturers; the company's various plants and facilities; Victor recording artists including Enrico Caruso and Arturo Toscanini; the development of color television; Victor founder Eldridge Johnson; the "Hall of Progress"; and recordings.

Museum files are concerned with the creation and administration of the colleciton of radios and phonographs.

Miscellaneous records include the 1963-1964 product line catalog, the "Computer Systems 1971 Business Plan" and a brief run of the company newsletter "Notes from Nipper."

Use Restrictions: Use Restrictions

Literary rights retained by the Lockheed Martin Corporation.

Histories & Background, 1901-1967 Scope and Content

Includes general histories of RCA and RCA Victor and a notebook of general operating and sales statistics.

Title/Description Instances "A Candid History" by B.L. Aldridge, manuscript, 1964 box 1

"A Candid History" - Proofs, 1964 box 1

"A Candid History" - Galleys, 1964 oversize 2

"Confidential History" by B.L. Aldridge. box 1

Haddon, Charles - Notebook, 1901-1921 box 1 Scope and Contents note

Notebook of Vice President & Treasurer C. Haddon with annual sales records and notes on transactions with the Gramophone Company of London and "Zon-0-Phone.".

History - Articles, undated 1952 box 1

History - Timelines, undated box 1

History - Miscellaneous, 1930-1957 box 1

"A History of Radio Corporation of America", 1958 box 1

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"History of RCA" box 1

Itinerant Displays box 1 Scope and Contents note

Contains listing of models available for traveling exhibitions, their potential uses, lectures, etc.

Model Histories box 1 Scope and Contents note

Mimeographed copies.

"1942-1967: Twenty-Five Years at RCA Laboratories", 1967 box 1

Notebook of General Operating and Sales Statistics, 1913-1919 box 1

Price and Sales Notebook, Vols. 1-2, circa 1920-1923 box 1 Scope and Contents note

Contains information about individual models, including dates of shipment, serial numbers, specifications and prices; illustrated.

Product Manual, 1936 box 1 Scope and Contents note

Descriptions of entire product line.

The Radio Corporation of America: Four Historical Views, box 1 1967

"RCA Historical Data", 1944 box 1 Scope and Contents note

History written by Tom Bernard for 251 Anniversary.

"Significant Features" Notebook, 1957 box 1 Scope and Contents note

Contains information about historic RCA Victor models and exhibit cases at "Hall of Progress".

The Story of Television, 1951 oversize 2

33 Years of Pioneering and Progress, 1953 box 1

General Historical Files, 1897-1971

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Scope and Content

Contains information about the history of Victor and RCA Victor including advertisements; miscellaneous products; the Nipper trademark and its originator Francis Barraud; the Berliner Gramophome Company and its patents; other phonograph, radio and record manufacturers; the company's various plants and facilities; Victor recording artists including Enrico Caruso and Arturo Toscanini; the development of color television; Victor founder Eldridge Johnson; the "Hall of Progress"; and recordings.

Title/Description Instances Advertisements, 1900-1931 box 2

Advertising Costs, 1901-1930 box 2 Scope and Contents note

Includes breakdown of sales byproduct, 1901-1930.

Age-Price Index, 1957 box 2 Scope and Contents note

Contains a listing of Victor products, their dates of distribution, an approximation of their serial numbers, and annual prices.

Antique Models Listing, 1956-1959 box 2 Scope and Contents note

Includes a list of antique Victrolas and records and their owners.

Audibility Charts, 1926-1938 box 2

Auditorium Orthophonic Victrola, circa 1927 box 2 Scope and Contents note

Original in Box OS-2.

Automobile Radios, 1903-1938 box 2

Award of Merit Society, 1945-1957 box 2 Scope and Contents note

Programs from annual recognition dinners.

Balance Sheets, 1901-1921 box 2

Barraud, Francis, 1956 box 2 Scope and Contents note

Contains Ms about painter of "His Master's Voice".

Berliner Building - Philadelphia, undated box 2

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Berliner Etched Records, 1955 box 2

Berliner Gramophone, 1887-1957 box 2

Berliner Patent, 1953 box 2 Scope and Contents note

See also correspondence with Oliver Berliner, below.

Berliner Recordings, undated box 2 Scope and Contents note

Great Master Artists of the Olde World ....

Broadcast Log, 1922 box 2

Bull, Ole - Articles and Advertisement, 1905-1909 box 2

Camden Plant, undated 1941 box 2 Scope and Contents note

Includes maps and photographs.

"A Candid History of the Victor Talking Machine Company", box 2 1954-1958 Scope and Contents note

Confidential manuscript based on unfinished research and memo about changes to manuscript Full manuscript in Box 1.

Caruso, Enrico, 1907-1955 box 2 Scope and Contents note

Includes discography, photocopies of two self-portraits, one with a hand-written agreement with Victor.

Certificates, undated box 2 Scope and Contents note

For RCA Radiola dealers and members of Stem & Co. Radio Club.

Chicago Talking Machine Company, 1887 box 2

Color Television, 1950-1963 box 2

Color Television - Articles, 1939 box 2

Color Television - Manuscript History, circa 1962 box 2

Color Television - Tearsheets, 1956 box 2

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Color Television - Trade Catalogs, undated 1954 box 2

Columbia Graphophone, undated 1952 box 2 Scope and Contents note

Includes photograph and manuscript.

Columbia Records, 1987 box 2 Scope and Contents note

Trade catalogs of records by Columbia Phonograph Company.

Combination Models - Trade Catalogs, 1928-1943 box 2

Co-operative Beneficial Association, 1917-1948 box 2 Scope and Contents note

Includes applications, certifications, memoranda and contracts for company benefits program.

Correspondence about "Little Girl" Advertisement, 1956 box 2 Scope and Contents note

Re identity of girl in 1901 Victor advertisement.

Correspondence with Austrian Consulate, 1958 box 2 Scope and Contents note

Re history of sound recording in Austria.

Correspondence with Edgar Berliner, 1952 box 2 Scope and Contents note

Son of Emile Berliner.

Correspondence with Oliver Berliner, 1955-1956 box 2 Scope and Contents note

Grandson of Emile Berliner; includes discussion of Berliner patents.

Correspondence with Grant Davis, 1958 box 2 Scope and Contents note

Scout troop leader; re materials lent for exhibit.

Correspondence with Electrical Merchandising, 1957 box 2

Correspondence with Frank Elliott, 1956 box 2

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Scope and Contents note

Curator of History at Michigan State University.

Correspondence with E. C. Forman, 1956-1958 box 2 Scope and Contents note

Re old records and the Stroh violin.

Correspondence with Fenimore Johnson, 1957-1958 box 2 Scope and Contents note

Son of Eldridge Johnson; mostly re "Hall of Progress".

Correspondence with New Jersey Historical Society, 1955-1956 box 2

Correspondence with E. R. Polhemus, 1955-1956 box 2 Scope and Contents note

Record collector re possible acquisition.

Correspondence with Oliver Read, 1956-1958 box 2 Scope and Contents note

Editor of Radio & Television News.

Correspondence with Joseph Sanders, 1953-1958 box 2 Scope and Contents note

Re early sound recording and record manufacture; move of "Hall of Progress" to Henry Ford Museum.

Correspondence with Smithsonian Institution, 1956-1958 box 2 Scope and Contents note

Re exhibit of sound recording for new National Museum.

Correspondence with Stix, Baer & Fuller, 1956-1957 box 2 Scope and Contents note

Re display at department store.

Correspondence - Miscellaneous, 1953-1966 box 2 Scope and Contents note

On origin of name "Victor"; proposed company history; disposition of historic materials.

Depew, Chauncey M., 1928 box 2

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Scope and Contents note

Article about popular Senator and public speaker; annotated, "First Gramophone Artist".

Display Room Mural-Text, circa 1950 box 2 Scope and Contents note

Labels for display at RCA Distributors, Inc., at Albany, NY.

Douglass, Leon Forrest - Condensed Memoirs, 1951 box 2 Scope and Contents note

Digest of memoirs privately published circa 1938.

Douglass, Leon Forrest - Condensed Memoirs - Master, 1951 box 2

Douglass, Leon Forrest - Condensed Memoirs - Notes & Copies, box 2 1951

Douglass, Leon Forrest - Photographs, undated box 2

"Edison Effect", 1955 box 2 Scope and Contents note

Notes and journal article about an Edison exhibit.

Edison Phonograph, undated box 2 Scope and Contents note

Includes listing of Edison's phonographs and copy of photograph of Edison with one of his early phonographs.

Educational Department, undated box 2

Electric Recording, 1955 box 2 Scope and Contents note

Contains manuscript "First Electrically Recorded Record".

Electronic Control - Trade Catalog, undated box 2 Scope and Contents note

Includes catalog for light-beam motion detector made by Electronic & By-Products Division.

Elliott, J. B., 1946-1947 box 2

Exhibit Hall, 1947 box 2

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Scope and Contents note

Contains trade catalogs and Architectural Record reprint about room displaying RCA Victor technology.

The Fabulous Phonograph, 1956 box 2 Scope and Contents note

Critique of The Fabulous Phonograph by Roland Gelati.

Feature Display, 1957 box 2 Scope and Contents note

Notes about various models.

"Fifty Year Story" correspondence, 1956 box 2

Firsts, 1946-1957 box 2 Scope and Contents note

Contains materials about "firsts" in technology, including a comparison between RCA and GE contributions to television.

Foreign Trade Catalogs, 1927-1931 box 2

Forms, 1918 undated box 2

Giannini, F. A., 1955 box 2 Scope and Contents note

Tenor who recorded for Berliner in 1896; includes photo.

"Hall of Progress" display, 1954-1955 box 2 Scope and Contents note

Includes company newsletter, objects list and copies of pictures for use in "Hall of Progress" display.

"Hall of Progress" exhibit text, 1955 box 2

"Hall of Progress" Move, 1958-1959 box 2 Scope and Contents note

Removing objects to Henry Ford Museum.

"Hall of Progress" - Photographs, 1955 box 2

"Hall of Progress" - Suggested Models, 1955 box 2

"Hall of Progress" - Miscellany, 1955-1957 box 2

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Scope and Contents note

Contains inventory of collection and policies re care and handling.

"Historic Milestones in the Development of Radio, TV and box 2 Victrola", manuscript, 1957

History of Recording, circa 1955-1964 box 2 Scope and Contents note

Contains script and timeline.

Horns (Phonograph), 1901 1908 box 2

Johnson, Eldridge R. - Articles and Manuscripts, 1910-1958 box 2

Johnson, Eldridge R. - Autobiography, 1919 box 2

Johnson, Eldridge R. - Patents, 1898 undated box 2

Johnson, Eldridge R. - Photographs, 1900 undated box 2

Johnson Machine Shop, undated box 2

Johnson Park, Camden, NJ, 1971 box 2

License Royalty, 1902-1913 box 3 Scope and Contents note

Re company's licensing program.

Magic Brain - Trade Catalog, 1942 box 3

Magnetic Detector, 1957 box 3 Scope and Contents note

Re device developed by the English Marconi company and installed on the SS Tahiti.

Marconi Receiver, 1902-1939 box 3

Mixed Products - Trade Catalogs and Instruction Manual, box 3 1928-1950

Model Symbols, 1929-1952 box 3

Museum - George Clark Collection, 1940-1957 box 3 Scope and Contents note

Re object lists and loans.

Museum - George Clark Collection, 1940-1957 box 3

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Scope and Contents note

Re materials given to RCA by Clark.

Museum Loans, 1940-1958 box 3

Music Boxes - Clippings, 1957 box 3

Naming, undated box 3 Scope and Contents note

Includes "Suggested Names for RCA Victor Pocket Radio".

National Gramophone Corporation (Berliner) - Trade Catalog, box 3 1899

Needles (Phonograph), undated box 3

Organ Sound System - Trade Catalogs, undated box 3 Scope and Contents note

Trade catalogs aimed at churches and mortuaries.

Panatrope, 1957 box 3 Scope and Contents note

Contains manuscript, "The 'Orthophonic Victrola' - The Electrola The 'Panatrope' : Which Came First - and Why!".

"Parade of Progress" - Photographs, 1964 box 3 Scope and Contents note

Exhibit at Cleveland Public Hall.

Radio - Trade Catalogs, 1931 undated box 3

Radio in the Home Magazine, 1922 box 3

Radiola Models - Trade Catalogs, circa 1928-1943 box 3

Radio Logs, 1931-1932 box 3

Radiotrons box 3 General note

See "Tubes".

"Recent Developments in the Recording and Reproduction of box 3 Sound", undated

Record "Biscuits", undated box 3

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Scope and Contents note

Re plastic balls pressed to form records.

Record-of-the-Month Club, 1930-1940 box 3 Scope and Contents note

Also known as Victor Record Society; includes newsletters for club, dealers' promotional binder, trade catalogs and notes on program's history.

Records - Collecting, 1949-1957 box 3 Scope and Contents note

Contains Collectors Guide to American Recordings: 1895-1925 and March 1957 issue of Hobbies magazine.

Records - Manufacturing, 1951-1953 box 3

Records - Manuscripts, undated box 3 Scope and Contents note

Re history of records and their development.

Records - Red Seal, 1923 box 3 Scope and Contents note

Memo re feasibility of introducing double-sided Red Seal records.

Records - Trade Catalogs, 1902-1932 box 3 Scope and Contents note

Includes photocopies of early trade catalogs.

Records - Miscellaneous, 1951-1957 box 3 Scope and Contents note

Includes lists of code numbers for old records and records available for sale through dealers.

Reprints, 1948 box 3 Scope and Contents note

"Armstrong of Radio" and RCA's "Television" from Fortune.

"Rider" Voltohmyst and Signal Generator, 1929-1959 box 3

Short Wave Adapter - Trade Catalog, 1931 box 3

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Short Wave Station List, 1940-1941 box 3 Scope and Contents note

Printed in English, French and Spanish.

Sound Boxes, undated box 3 Scope and Contents note

Contains manuscript list and copies from a trade catalog, a sales manual and 1899 Johnson patent.

Speeches, 1937-1957 box 3 Scope and Contents note

Contains "Radio in 1945-1946: Review ... and a Preview" and address by David Sarnoff, and "No Place Like First Place" and "Let's Make Some Money" by Robert Seidel.

Stationery, 1901 box 3 Scope and Contents note

Photostats of early letterheads.

"The Story of Opera", undated box 3

Strawbridge & Clothier Display, 1957 box 3

Stroh Violin, undated 1956 box 3 Scope and Contents note

Specially designed violin with amplifying horn; one photo features ' Harry Lauder.

Television - Trade Catalogs and Tearsheets, 1952-1955 box 3

"Then and Now" Comparisons, 1956-1957 box 3

Theremin, 1950 box 3 Scope and Contents note

Article about electronic musical instrument.

"There Was a Time", manuscript, 1956 box 3 Scope and Contents note

Early company history.

Toscanini, Arturo, 1921-1950 box 3

Toy Models, 1938-1940 box 3

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Scope and Contents note box 3

Re Nipper the dog and Alfred Barraud who painted "His Master's Voice".

Trademarks - Clippings and Illustrations, 1903-1969 box 3

Trademarks - Miscellany, 1903 undated box 3 Scope and Contents note

Contains registrations for trademarks similar to "His Master's Voice" but depicting "A young woman dressed in evening apparel, and ape, and a "Chinaman" and a press release.

Trademark Usage, 1955 box 3 Scope and Contents note

Contains "Correct Usage of Radio Corporation of America Trademarks".

"Troubles Which Led to Victor", manuscript, 1954 box 3 Scope and Contents note

Re turn of the century patents and competition in the phonograph business.

Tubes (Radio), undated 1945 box 3 Scope and Contents note

Includes "Tube Substitution Directory for Emergency Servicing of Civilian Receivers".

UHF - Trade Catalogs, circa 1953 box 3

United States Gramophone Company, 1895 box 3

Victor Advertising - Notes, undated box 3 Scope and Contents note

Re history of Victor advertising.

Victor and Victrola - Trade Catalogs, circa 1900-1929 box 3

Victor buildings, 1904undated box 3

Victor Home Office Building, 1917 box OS-2

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Scope and Contents note

From March 28, 1917 issue of The American Architect.

"Victor's First Contributions to Recorded Music", manuscript, box 3 1958 Scope and Contents note

Prepared for New Jersey State Archives.

Victor Instruments, undated (pre-1924) box 3

Victor Recording Artists, 1907-1953 box 3

Voice of the Victor - Article Subjects, undated box 3 Scope and Contents note

Contains list of subjects covered in articles between 1906 and 1922.

World War I, 1917-1955 box 3 Scope and Contents note

Contains correspondence and photocopies of photographs of Victor factory in warplane production and report about advertising during World War I.

Miscellany, 1922-1966 box 3 Scope and Contents note

Includes instruction manual for Vim Trucks, photocopies of miscellaneous illustrations, clippings, and a glossary of "telelanguage".

Museum Files, 1940-1972 Scope and Content

This subseries was produced by Aldridge while he was assembling the company's collection of historic models for the "Hall of Progress" and traveling displays. Included in this subseries are form letters used to respond to research inquiries and people who wished to sell or donate antique instruments to RCA. Correspondence contains some exchanges on the history of Victor Talking Machine Company and RCA Victor. Files on the Museum and its predecessor, the company "morgue", include records of accessioning and loaning items in the collections. There are also collection inventories and logs of all shipments.

Title/Description Instances "Book of Letters", 2 Parts, Master and Copy, 1957 box 4

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Scope and Contents note

Contains form letters to respond to research inquiries about RCA Victor models and to sales and donation offers; letters numbered and with index in front.

Correspondence, 1946-1956 box 4 Scope and Contents note

B. L. Aldridge's "Early Museum Correspondence".

Correspondence, January 1957-August 1958 box 4 Scope and Contents note

Letters about RCA Victor history and museum collections, arranged chronologically.

Inventory of Metal Cabinets at Cherry Hill, 1957 box 4

Morgue Loans, 1944-1946 box 4 Scope and Contents note

Log of object loans.

Morgue Correspondence, 1940-1947 box 4

Museum Accessions and Loans, 1945-1952 box 4

Museum Stock Inventories, 1955 box 5 Scope and Contents note

Includes inventories of objects in the company's museum collection as well as condition reports and repair requests.

Museum Stock Shipments, 1953-1961 box 5 Scope and Contents note

Re shipping arrangements for loans.

Museum Stock - Miscellany, undated 1959 box 5 Scope and Contents note

Includes information about materials on loan to the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn and final notes from B. L. Aldridge to his successor and co-workers.

Miscellany, undated 1972 box 5 Scope and Contents note

Includes label from Victor Monarch record, memo about television field tests, shipment dates of early Victrolas,

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brief manuscripts about model lines and recording series, a want list, and frequency range of old models.

Model Files Scope and Content

Consists of information collected by Aldridge about Victor and RCA Victor instruments. They are arranged first by type and then in numerical order if the model designation contains only numbers, or by letter if the designation contains only letters or letters and numbers combined. A key to the letter designations may be found as Appendix A at the back of the finding aid. Materials in the files include trade catalogs or pages from trade catalogs, short histories of the model written by Aldridge, exhibit labels, and advertisements.

Victor Models Title/Description Instances Victor "A" box 6

Victor Aux-e-to-Phone box 6

Victor "B" ("Trade Mark Model") box 6

Victor "C" box 6

Victor "D" box 6

Victor "E" ("Monarch, Jr.") box 6

Victor Junior box 6

Victor "M" ("Monarch" Models) box 6

Victor "0" box 6

Victor "R" ("Royal") box 6

Victor "Toy", 1900 box 6

Victor I box 6

Victor II (V-II), 1902-1925 box 6

Victor III (V-III), 1902-1924 box 6

Victor IV, 1906 box 6

Victor V, 1903-1925 box 6

Victor VI (V-VI), 1905-1925 box 6

Victrola Models Title/Description Instances Victrola N (VV-IV) box 6

Victrola VI, 1912-1925 box 6

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Victrola IX, 1911-1925 box 6

Victrola X box 6

Victrola XI (VV-XI), 1913-1925 box 6

Victrola XIV box 6

Victrola XVI (Original 1906) box 6

Victrola XVII, 1916-1925 box 6

Victrola XXV, 1913-1925 box 6 Scope and Contents note

"School Machine".

Victrola 4-3 box 6

Victrola 8-60 box 6

Victrola 9-W-78 ("Console") box 6

Victrola 12-2 box 6

Victrola 50 (VV-50) box 6

Victrola 100, 1921 box 6

Victrola 130 box 6

Victrola 230 (VV-230) box 6

Victrola 330 box 6

Victrolas - Miscellaneous Models box 6

Orthophonic Victrola 8-30, 1925-1928 box 6 Scope and Contents note

"Credenza".

Orthophonic Victrola 8-35 box 6

Orthophonic Victrola 10-50/10-51, 1927-1928 box 6

Orthophonic Victrolas - Miscellaneous Models box 6

Radiola Models Title/Description Instances Radiola I box 6

Radiola II, 1922-1924 box 6

Radiola III, 1924-1925 box 6

Radiola III-A box 6

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Radiola IV box 6

Radiola V box 6

Radiola VI box 6

Radiola VII box 6

Radiola VII-B, 1924 box 6

Radiola Super VIII box 6

Radiola IX, 1924-1925 box 6

Radiola X, 1924 box 6

Radiola 16 box 6

Radiola 17, 1927-1928 box 6

Radiola 18, 1928-1930 box 6

Radiola 20 box 6

Radiola 21 box 6

Radiola 22 box 6

Radiola 24, 1925 box 6

Radiola 25 box 6

Radiola 26, 1925 box 6

Radiola 28, 1925 box 6

Radiola 30 box 6

Radiola 30-A box 6

Radiola R-32 box 6

Radiola 32 (D.C.) box 6

Radiola 33, 1929 box 6

Radiola 44 box 6

Radiola 46 box 6

Radiola 47 box 6

Radiola 51 box 6

Radiola 60, 1928 box 6

Radiola 62 box 6

Radiola 64 box 6

Radiola 66 box 6

Radiola 67, 1929 box 6

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Radiola R-78 ("Bi-Acoustic") box 6

Radiola 80, 1930-1931 box 6

Radiola Combination AR-1300 and AA-1400, 1922-1923 box 6

Radiola AR-1375 box 6

Radiola RC box 6

Radiola RE, 1921-1923 box 6 Scope and Contents note

"Aeriola Junior".

Radiola RF, 1922-1923 box 6 Scope and Contents note

"Aeriola Senior".

Radiola RG, 1922 box 6 Scope and Contents note

"Radiola Grand".

Radiola RS box 6

Radiola R-7, 1931 box 6 Scope and Contents note

"Superette".

Radiola Regenoflex box 6

Radiola Superheterodyne box 6

Radiola - Miscellaneous Models box 6

Phonograph Models Title/Description Instances Electrola 10-69 box 6

Electrola 12-1, 1926-1928 box 6 Scope and Contents note

"The Cromwell".

Phonograph 2ES3/2ES31 box 6

Phonograph 9-EY-3 box 6

Phonograph 9-EY-32 box 6

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Phonograph 9-EY-35 box 6

Phonograph 45-EY-2 box 6

Phonograph 5H box 6

Phonograph 3HES-5C box 6

Phonograph 6HF5 box 6

Phonograph 2JS 1 box 6

Phonograph R-98 box 6

Phonograph R-99, 1936 box 6

Phonograph VA-22 box 6

Phonograph - Miscellaneous Models box 6

Radio Models Title/Description Instances Radio 141 ("All Ware") box 7

Radio B-411 ("The Personal") box 7

Radio 2B400 box 7

Radio 6B5 ("Personal") box 7

Radio BP-10 box 7

Radio 25BP/26 BP ("Pick-Me-Up") box 7

Radio 94BP-4 box 7

Radio BX-6/66BX ("Globe Trotter") box 7

Radio 3BX671 ("Strata World") box 7

Radio 5BX41 box 7

Radio 8BX54 box 7

Radio 9BX56 box 7

Radio 2-C-511 box 7

Radio ER-753A box 7

Radio HF-1 box 7

Radio 813-K box 7

Radio P-31 box 7

Radio PX600 box 7

Radio R-7 box 7

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Radio 4X641 ("The Driscoll") box 7

Radio 8X-541 box 7

Radio 9X-562 box 7

Radio 9X-651 box 7

Radio 15X box 7

Radio 56X-11 box 7

Radio 6XD5 ("The Glendon Table Radio") box 7

Radio - Miscellaneous Models box 7

Combination Models Title/Description Instances Electrola Victrola 9-55 box 7

Electrola Victrola 9-56 box 7

Orthophonic Victrola Radiola 7-1, 1925 box 7 Scope and Contents note

"Alhambra I".

Radio-Phonograph 9-2 ("Borgia II") box 7

Radio-Phonograph 15-1 ("Hyperion") box 7

Radio-Phonograph D-22-1 box 7

Radio-Phonograph RE 18 box 7

Radio-Phonograph RE 20 box 7

Radio-Phonograph RE 40 box 7

Radio-Phonograph RE 45, 1929-1930 box 7

Radio-Phonograph RE 75 box 7

Radio-Phonograph RE 80 box 7

Radio-Phonograph U135 box 7

Radio-Phonograph 2US7 box 7

Radio-Phonograph 9-U box 7

Radio-Phonograph V-215 box 7

Radio-Phonograph V-225 box 7

Radio-Phonograph 612-V-3 ("Crestwood") box 7

Radio-Phonograph 9-W-51 box 7

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Radio-Phonograph 9-W-105 box 7

Radio-Phonograph 9-W-106 box 7

Radio-Phonograph 6XY5 box 7

Radio-Phonograph 9-Y-7 box 7

Radio-Phonograph 9-Y-51 box 7

Combinations - Miscellaneous Models box 7

Record Playing Attachments Title/Description Instances 9-JY R-93 box 7

R-93-A/R-94 R-93-F box 7

R-100 box 7

R-103-S box 7

Television Models Title/Description Instances CT-100 ("The Merrill") box 7

21-D-527 ("The Ashland") box 7

24-D-544 ("The Prentiss") box 7

27-D-331 box 7

9-PC-41 box 7

648-PTK box 7

648-PV box 7

24-S-529 ("The Brentwood") box 7

4T101 ("The Bentley") box 7

8-T-243 ("The Onlooker") box 7

8-T-270 box 7

9-T-246 box 7

17-T-150 box 7

21-T-715 TC-166 TRK-5 TRK-9 TRK-12 621-TS box 7

630-TS box 7

721-TS box 7

TIS box 7

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8-TV-321 ("The Harrison") box 7

8-TV-323 ("The Monticello") box 7

9-TW-309 box 7

Television - Miscellaneous Models box 9

Loudspeaker Models Title/Description Instances 100 box 9

100-A/100-B box 9

102 box 9

103, 1928-1930 box 9

104 box 9

105 DeLuxe box 9

106 box 9

UZ-1325 box 9

Vocarola LV box 9

Miscellaneous Models Title/Description Instances Auto Radio M-116 Detector Amplifier DR Duo-Rectron box 9 AP-937 Radio Case WCC-9

Radiola Balanced Amplifier box 9

Radiotron UV-876 Receiver VVR-80 Uni-Rectron AP-935 box 9

Distribution & Allocation Records, 1913-1957 Scope and Content

Records in this subseries were collected by Aldridge during his tenure as Manager of Sales & Administration of Home Instruments. This subseries contains extensive information about RCA's policies for allocating instruments to dealers during World War II shortages. The subseries also includes information about dealer and distributor sales and discounts, product distribution, production control, field personnel, sales comparisons, sales training and seasonal trends.

Title/Description Instances Affiliate retailers, 1935-1945 box 9

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Scope and Contents note

Contains information about the Affiliate Retailer Plan including historical background.

Allocation Data, 1923-1944 box 9 Scope and Contents note

Contains memoranda detailing allotment policies during and after World War II and to jobbers.

Allotments Notebooks: Allotment Data, 1944-1945 box 9

Allotment Percentages, 1941-1942 1945-1946 box 9

Allotments, 1941-1942 box 9

Accounts Receivable & Miscellany, 1941-1942 box 9

Background Data, 1941-1942 box 9

Potentials, 1917-1942 box 9

Method of Allocation, 1925-1947 box 9

Allocations - Miscellany box 9

Authorized Dealer Plan, 1913-1934 box 9 Scope and Contents note

Includes contracts and report forms, correspondence and certificates.

Authorized Dealer Plan - Correspondence, 1930 box 9 Scope and Contents note

Contains correspondence from dealers on proposed new dealer plan.

Consignment Selling, 1926-1927 box 9 Scope and Contents note

Contains proposed selling plan and "Report of the Financial & Accounting Features of the Proposed Agency Plan of Distribution".

Consignment Selling - Field Survey, 1926-1927 box 9 Scope and Contents note

Contains surveys of companies about their selling and distribution systems.

Distribution Materials, 1937-1939 box 9

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Scope and Contents note

Includes forms, orders, prices and convention for 1937-1938 and 1938-1939 product line.

Distributor and Dealer Miscellany, 1925-1927 box 9 Scope and Contents note

Includes stock reports, discount schedules, shipment schedules, sales quotas and ranking by city, bulletins and a proposal about restructuring dealer and distributor sales.

Distributor Directory, 1963 box 9

Distributor Discounts, 1937-1945 box 9

Distributor Lists, 1907-1945 box 9

Distributors' Statistical Control, 1935 box 9 Scope and Contents note

Includes surveys of statistical control methods in other companies.

D.Q.A. Plan, 1956 box 9

Farm Market, 1937-1947 box 9 Scope and Contents note

Contains trade catalogs, information about the Breeze- Electric Super-Charger and a report about selling to farms.

Field Personnel, 1940-1941 1953-1957 box 9

Freight Rates and Shipping Times, 1931-1932 box 9

Frequency Charts, 1937-1945 box 9

Instruments - Index, 1944 box 9 Scope and Contents note

Contains "Index to Instruments Data".

Instrument Orders, 1921-1946 box 9 Scope and Contents note

Contains forms and policies for instrument ordering.

Instrument Survey, 1942 box 9

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Scope and Contents note

Re possible improvements to the instrument business.

Inventory Turnover, 1926-1943 box 9

Kay Jewelry Company, 1941 box 9 Scope and Contents note

Re orders disputed by Kay.

Licensees - Radio, 1945 box 9 Scope and Contents note

Contains list of radio broadcast receiving set licenses.

Marketing Plan for "New Combination", 1929-1931 box 9

Newsletters, 1944-1947 box 9 Scope and Contents note

Contains newsletter sent to "RCA dealers and distributors everywhere".

Policy Bulletins, 1931-1945 box 9

Policy Letters, 1931-1933 box 9 Scope and Contents note

Re policies for merchandising, freight, and other procedures.

Price Adjustment Policy, 1940 box 9

Production Control - Correspondence, 1930-1944 box 9

Production Control - Forms & Charts, 1939-1941 box 9

Production Control - Mailers, undated box 9

Production Order Routine, 1941 box 9

"A Proposed Authorized Dealers Plan", circa 1930 box 9

Record Changer, Automatic, 1944-1946 box 9 Scope and Contents note

Redesign, sales and success of record changer.

"Records vs. Instruments, 1901-1944", 1944-1945 box 9

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Scope and Contents note

Illustrates annual sales of phonograph records and instruments.

Sales - Seasonal Trends, 1937-1944 box 9

Sales Bulletins (Spanish and English), 1924 box 9

Sales Comparisons, 1934-1946 box 10 Scope and Contents note

Contains comparisons between RCA's sales and those of entire industry, particularly Philco, which outsold RCA during much of this period.

Sales Policy, 1950 box 10 Scope and Contents note

Contains RCA Victor 'Eye Witness' Television Home Instrument Department Official Sales Policy plus Other Helpful Information for Distributors".

Sales Reports, 1941-1942 box 10 Scope and Contents note

Shipments by model.

Sales Training Manuals, 1921 1935-1936 circa 1940 box 10 Scope and Contents note

includes door-to-door selling.

Sampling Program for Model 15X (Concentration Nipper), 1940 box 10

"Seasonal Trends: Radio Sets and Phonographs, 1937-1942", box 10 1943

Telegraphic Code Guides, 1923-1935 box 10

Television - Demonstrations, 1946 box 10

Television - Miscellaneous Studies, 1944-1947 box 10

Television Service, 1952 box 10

Miscellany, 1936-1950 box 10

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Scope and Contents note

includes "Retail Salesman Home Endorsement Program", dealer postcards, Kinescope allocations and a list of state tax rates.

Chronological File of Sales & Marketing Materials, 1931-1940 Scope and Content

While Manager of Sales & Administration, Aldridge also collected nine folders of sales and marketing materials arranged chronologically. These files contain trade catalogs, cooperative advertising plans, bulletins and outlines of promotions to dealers and distributors.

Title/Description Instances Sales & Marketing Materials, 1931-1940 box 10 Scope and Contents note

Contains: "Introductory Talk Prior to Presentation of New Models,' cooperative advertising plan, "Special Discount and Cooperative Advertising Plan for Large Accounts", "Presentation of the New 1931 Line,'' "Complete Program Data Victor Dealers Meeting of the Introduction of the 1931 Victor Line", "The Victor 'Bring-Em-ill' Broadside", The New 1935-1936 Magic Brain RCA Victor Line", "Presenting the new RCA Victrolas for 1939", bulletins to distributors and trade catalogs; some material in Box OS-1.

Miscellany, 1961-1971 Scope and Content

This subseries contains product line catalogs, a 1971 computer systems business plan, and issues of Notes from Nipper, the in-house newsletter of the Sales training Department.

Title/Description Instances "Computer Systems 1971 Business Plan" Product Line Catalogs, box 10 1963-1964

Notes from Nipper, 1916-1966 box 10 Scope and Contents note

Scattered issues of newsletter of the Sales Training Dept.

Oversize Materials, 1913-1956

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Scope and Content

The principal item is a large disbound advertising scrapbook containing advertising tear sheets featuring Victor Victrolas and recording artists. There are additional loose advertisements, tear sheets and articles and a scrapbook of literature from the Camden Plant's off-the-job safety campaign of 1955.

Title/Description Instances Camden Plant Off-the-Job Safety Program Scrapbook, 1955 oversize 1

"Candid History" Galleys, 1964 oversize 2

"The Story of Television", 1951 oversize 2

"Victor Home Office Building", 1917 oversize 2

Exhibit Labels, undated oversize 2

"A Proposed Authorized Dealer Plan", circa 1930 oversize 2

Life Magazine offprint, 1956 oversize 2 Scope and Contents note

Contains ads for RCA Victor color television sets and NBC color television programs.

Punch Card Manual, undated oversize 2

Distribution and Marketing Quotas Poster, 1946 oversize 2

"What to Look for When Buying a Radio", 1939 oversize 2

Nipper Print, undated oversize 2

Catalog, 1922 oversize 3

"The Voice of Radio Headquarters", 1922 oversize 3

"Poor Richard's Almanac of Advertisers", circa 1940 oversize 3

Tearsheet, 1944 oversize 3 Scope and Contents note

Re RCA's role in developing radio.

Orthophonic Victrola Poster, 1929 oversize 3

Holiday Advertisement Featuring Victor Recording Artists, oversize 3 1916

Tearsheets, 1937 oversize 3

Dealer Talley, 1944 oversize 3 General note

From notebook in Box 9.

Chart - E.M. Rosenthal Jewelry Co., 1941 oversize 3

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Trade Catalog, 1932 oversize 3

Auditorium Orthophonic Victrola Advertisement, circa 1927 oversize 3 General note

Use copy in Box 2.

Advertising Scrapbook, 1913-1915 box 4-8 Scope and Contents note

Contains tear sheets of advertisements for Victrolas and recording artists. Some advertisements are directed at Victor product dealers. Includes Talking Machine World covers featuring Victor products and 1913 bird's eye view of the Camden Plant.

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Camden Technical Library files, 1930-1983bulk 1930-1968 Physical Description: 230 Linear Feet Scope and Contents

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France, the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland and Italy and some contacts with the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.

The Standards subseries is further organized into six sub-subseries of standards consist of looseleaf binders with printed company, industry and government standards governing the dimension, composition and manufacture of electronic components and materials, along with written specifications or instructions and graphs showing performance characteristics. The Master Items list all the parts of a particular assembly with drawings, if appropriate. The Manufacturing Guides outline procedures to be followed in the manufacture of components and materials. The Test Report Index refers to microfilmed reports that are not part of this accession.

Technical Reports Scope and Content

Consists of one or two page summary descriptions of apparatus or processes, typically with a schematic diagram. When a sufficient number had accumulated, they were bound and issued as serial volumes starting in 1957.

larger directions in RCA's research or understand which experiments were commercially successful. Only a small minority of the reports describe the functioning of large pieces of apparatus that a non-specialist would recognize or the state of research on a broad topic.

In addition to the reports generated on the Camden site, the Camden library also received copies of reports from most other RCA research facilities. These include laboratories at Princeton, NJ (later the David Sarnoff Laboratory), Zurich, Switzerland, and New York City, as well as aerospace and defense labs at East Windsor and Moorestown, NJ, Van Nuys and Los Angeles, Calif., and Burlington, Mass. RCA Communications, Inc., is represented by facilities at Riverhead, Rocky Point, and New York, NY, whose work dealt mainly with wireless telegraphy and radio facsimile. The Tube/Electronic Components/Semiconductor/Solid State Divisions are represented by laboratories at Harrison and Somerville, NJ, Lancaster, Pa., Indianapolis, Marion and Bloomington, Ind., and Cincinnati, Ohio.

Smaller bodies of reports are available from the National Broadcasting Company, Inc., the RCA Victor Company, Ltd. in Montreal, the RCA Institute in New York, the RCA Service Company in Cherry Hill, NJ, and RCA's International Division. Lastly, there are a set of reports from the Lincoln Laboratory of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and one from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at CalTech.

Princeton Technical Reports Title/Description Instances PTR-1 to PTR-30, 1942-1945 box 11

PTR-31 to PTR-105, 1945-1948 box 12

PTR-106 to PTR-163, 1948-1950 box 13

PTR-165 to PTR-238, 1950-1952 box 14

PTR-239 to PTR-314, 1952-1953 box 15

PTR-315 toPTR-380, 1953-1954 box 16

PTR-381 to PTR-450, 1954-1955 box 17

PTR-451 to PTR-507, 1955 box 18

PTR-507A to PTR-561, 1955-1956 box 19

PTR-563 to PTR-611, 1956 box 20

PTR-612 to PTR-661, 1956-1957 box 21

PTR-662 to PTR-709, 1957 box 22

PTR-711 to PTR-755, 1957-1958 box 23

PTR-756 to PTR-810, 1958 box 24

PTR-811 to PTR-864, 1958-1959 box 25

PTR-865 to PTR-912, 1959-1960 box 26

PTR-913 to PTR-968, 1960-1961 box 27

PTR-969 to PTR-1119, 1961 box 28

PTR-1120 to PTR-1169, 1961-1962 box 29

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box 30

PTR-1216 to PTR-1271, 1962 box 31

PTR-1273 to PTR-1346, 1962 box 32

PTR-1347 to PTR-1417, 1962-1963 box 33

PTR-1418 to PTR-1495, 1963 box 34

PTR-1496 to PTR-1594, 1963-1964 box 35

PTR-1595 to PTR-1666, 1964 box 36

PTR-1667 to PTR-1742, 1964 box 37

PTR-1743 to PTR-1815, 1964-1965 box 38

PTR-1816 to PTR-1882, 1965 box 39

PTR-1883 to PTR-1963, 1965 box 40

PTR-1964 to PTR-2051, 1965-1966 box 41

PTR-2052 to PTR-2412, 1966-1968 box 42

Princeton Engineering Memoranda Title/Description Instances PEM-1 to PEM-84, 1943-1947 box 43

PEM-85 to PEM-176, 1948-1951 box 44

PEM-177 to PEM-328, 1951-1953 box 45

PEM-357 to PEM-574, 1953-1955 box 46

PEM-577 to PEM-763, 1955-1956 box 47

PEM-766 to PEM-964, 1956-1957 box 48

PEM-965 to PEM-1204, 1957-1958 box 49

PEM-1206 to PEM-1381, 1958-1959 box 50

PEM-1382 to PEM-1532, 1959 box 51

PEM-1533 to PEM-1697, 1959-1960 box 52

PEM-1698 to PEM-1778, 1960 box 53

PEM-1779 to PEM-1870, 1960-1961 box 54

PEM-1871 to PEM-1969, 1961 box 55

PEM-1970 to PEM-2067, 1961 box 56

PEM-2068 to PEM-2162, 1961-1962 box 57

PEM-2163 to PEM-2283, 1962-1963 box 58

PEM-2284 to PEM-2425, 1963-1964 box 59

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PEM-2426 to PEM-2568, 1964-1965 box 60

PEM-2569 to PEM-2689, 1965 box 61

PEM-2690 to PEM-2834, 1965-1966 box 62

PEM-2835 to PEM-2967, 1966-1967 box 63

PEM-2968 to PEM-3121, 1967-1969 box 64

PEM-3123 to PEM-3216, 1969 box 65

Zurich Engineering Memoranda Title/Description Instances ZEM-4, ZEM-47 to ZEM-122, 1956-1961 box 65

ZEM-123 to ZEM-260, 1961-1969 box 66

Zurich Technical Reports Title/Description Instances ZTR-1 to ZTR-37, 1956-1962 box 66

ZTR-38 to ZTR-151, 1963-1969 box 67

ZTR-152 to ZTR-168, 1969 box 68

Princeton Technical Notes Title/Description Instances TN-1 to TN-793, 1957-1968 box 68

RCA Victor Company, Ltd. IRCALTD Title/Description Instances 3-900-4 to 3-900-15, 1967-1969 box 68

3-950-3, 1967 box 68

6-101-5 to 6-101-7, 1961 box 68

6-400-1 to 6-400-8, 1962 box 68

6-400-9, 6-501-3, 1963 box 69

7-100-2, 1957 box 69

7-200-1, 1958 box 69

7-801-1 to 7-800-60, 1958-1967 box 69

7-801-76 to 7-801-78, 1969 box 69

7-811-3, 1960 box 69

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RR-72.14.6-1, 1968 box 69

Annual Report, 1965 box 69

92123-16, 1969 box 69

96128-4, 1971 box 69

96202-1, 1972 box 69

ER-164, 1966 box 69

ER-196, 1967 box 69

ER-246, undated box 69

National Broadcasting Company Title/Description Instances Index of technical reports, 1 to 139 box 69

D-151, 1941 box 69

EM (Unnumbered), 1949-1951 box 69

EM-13 to EM-41, 1954-1956 box 69

EM-43, EM-51, 1956-1957 box 70

ER-164 to ER-277, 1944-1958 box 70

Engineering Memoranda Title/Description Instances EM-6-C to EM-35-C (Camden), 1942-1945 box 71

EM-201 to EM-1663 (Camden), 1930-1934 box 71

EM-1665 to EM-2207 (Camden), 1934-1940 box 72

EM-2208 to EM-2299 (Camden), 1940-1944 box 73

EM-2301 to EM-2314 (Hollywood), 1937-1945 box 73

EM-2401 (Indianapolis), 1937 box 73

EM-2402 to EM-4229 (Indianapolis), 1937-1944 box 74

EM-2601 to EM-2657 (Service Co.), 1961-1963 box 74

EM-2658 to EM-2661 (RCA G10bcom), 1963-1969 box 74

EM-2702 to EM-2724 (Camden), 1945-1946 box 74

EM-2725 to EM-2726 (Graphic Sys.), 1968-1969 box 74

EM-2801 (RCA Ltd.), 1969 box 74

EM-3000 to EM-3013 (Camden), 1936-1937 box 74

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EM-4000 to EM-4053 (Camden), 1946-1950 box 74

EM-4054 to EM-4122 (Camden), 1949-1953 box 75

EM-4123 to EM-4183 (Camden), 1953-1954 box 76

EM-4185 to EM-4240 (Camden), 1954-1955 box 77

EM-4241 to EM-4287 (Camden), 1955 box 78

EM-4288 to EM-4343 (Camden), 1955-1956 box 79

EM-4344 to EM-4409 (Camden), 1956-1957 box 80

EM-4411 to EM-4467 (Camden), 1956-1958 box 81

EM-4468 to EM-4485 (Camden), 1958-1960 box 82

Moorestown Engineering Memoranda Title/Description Instances EM-4600 to EM-4611, 1953-1955 box 82

EM-4612 to EM-4662, 1955-1959 box 83

EM-4663 to EM-4668, 1959 box 84

Home Instrument Department Memoranda Title/Description Instances EM-5000 to EM-5078, 1946-1953 box 84

EM-5079 to EM-5142, 1954-1960 box 85

EM-5143 to EM-5179, 1960-1969 box 86

Boston Engineering Memoranda Title/Description Instances EM-4700, 1958 box 86

Indianapolis Engineering Memoranda Title/Description Instances EM-6000 to EM-6017, 1946-1949 box 86

EM-6018 to EM-6069, 1950-1956 box 87

Los Angeles Engineering Memoranda Title/Description Instances EM-6201, 1961 box 87

EM-6202 to EM-6227, 1961-1968 box 88

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Broadcast Systems Memoranda Title/Description Instances EM-6401 to EM-6412, 1962-1969 box 89

Medical Electronics Memoranda Title/Description Instances EM-6501, undated box 89

Tube Division Memoranda Title/Description Instances EM-7000 to EM-7054 (Harrison), 1946-1952 box 89

EM-7055 to EM-7099 (Harrison), 1951-1953 box 90

EM-7100 to EM-7117 (Lancaster), 1946-1947 box 90

EM-7118 to EM-7217 (Lancaster), 1947-1953 box 91

EM-7218 to EM-7277 (Lancaster), 1953-1956 box 92

EM-7278 to EM-7328 (Lancaster), 1956-1957 box 93

EM-7329 to EM-7364 (Lancaster), 1957-1959 box 94

EM-7365 to EM-7444 (Lancaster), 1959-1966 box 95

EM-7445 to EM-7470 (Lancaster), 1967-1969 box 96

EM-7500 to EM-7566 (Harrison), 1953-1955 box 96

EM-7567 to EM-7672 (Harrison), 1955-1958 box 97

EM-7673 to EM-7756 (Harrison), 1958-1963 box 98

EM-7757 to EM-7771 (Harrison), 1963-1969 box 99

EM-7800 to EM-7825 (Marion, Ind.), 1955-1969 box 99

EM-7900 to EM-7901 (Camden), 1955 box 99

EM-8000 to EM-8051 (Camden), 1946-1957 box 99

EM-8052 to EM-8054 (Camden), 1957 box 100

EM-4241 (West Coast), 1955 box 100

EM-8500 to EM-8581 (Somerville, NJ), 1956-1962 box 100

EM-8583 to EM-8645 (Somerville, NJ), 1961-1968 box 101

EM-8646 to EM-8647 (Somerville, NJ), 1968 box 102

EM-8700 to EM-8716 (New York), 1957-1958 box 102

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Title/Description Instances EM-58-406-1 to EM-58-421-34, 1958 box 102

EM-58-572-3 to EM-59-421-13, 1958-1959 box 103

EM-59-421-14 to EM-59-582-20, 1959 box 104

EM-59-582-21 to EM-60-421-7, 1959-1960 box 105

EM-60-421-8 to EM-60-590-92, 1960 box 106

EM-60-591-83 to EM-61-421-14, 1960-1961 box 107

EM-61-421-15 to EM-61-576-11, 1961 box 108

EM-61-576-12 to EM-61-590-1, 1961 box 109

EM-61-592-2 to EM-62-421-16, 1961-1962 box 110

EM-62-412-18 to EM-62-563-5, 1962 box 111

EM-62-564-4 to EM-63-419-7, 1962-1963 box 112

EM-63-419-8 to EM-63-526-7, 1963 box 113

EM-63-526-8 to EM-63-597-1, 1963 box 114

EM-64-016-1 to EM-64-588-18, 1964 box 115

EM-64-588-19 to EM-65-421-27, 1964-1965 box 116

EM-65-421-28 to EM-65-588-14, 1965 box 117

EM-65-588-15 to EM-66-421-10, 1965-1966 box 118

EM-66-421-11 to EM-66-588-6, 1966 box 119

EM-66-588-7 to EM-66-588-30, 1966 box 120

Declassified: EM-2-C to EM-58-588-3, 1941-1958 box 120

RCA Communications, Inc. Reports Title/Description Instances CM-2-2 to CM-2-5, 1943-1949 box 120

CM-7-1 to CM-100-5, 1943-1952 box 121

CM-43-4 to CM-43-26, 1941-1955 box 121

CM-32-8, 1950 box 121

EM-61-2 to EM-61-47, 1946-1952 box 121

EM-61-48 to EM-62-18, 1946-1957 box 122

EM-62-19 to EM-62-65, 1948-1957 box 123

EM-63-28 to EM-63-65, 1944-1949 box 123

EM-63-67 to EM-63-81, 1949-1956 box 124

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F-2-12 to F-31-15, 1933-1952 box 124

F-31-17 to F-32-53, 1937-1952 box 125

F-32-54 to F-43-79, 1936-1958 box 126

F-43-91 to F-43-137, 1947-1959 box 127

F-45-26 to F-72-7, 1933-1959 box 128

F-72-8 to F-75-9, 1935-1946 box 129

RDEM-92 to RDEM-101, 1958-1959 box 129

RPEM-67 to RPEM-82, 1958-1959 box 129

RCA International Division Reports Title/Description Instances ER-1 to ER-121, 1959-1968 box 129

ER-122 to ER-166, 1968-1975 box 130

Technical Reports Title/Description Instances TR-5 to TR-125 (Camden), 1930-1931 box 130

TR-128 to TR-195 (Camden), 1931-1933 box 131

TR-196 to TR-284 (Camden), 1933-1935 box 132

TR-285 to TR-383 (Camden), 1935-1938 box 133

TR-384 to TR-476 (Camden), 1938-1939 box 134

TR-477 to TR-856 (Camden), 1940-1942 box 135

TR-857 to TR-1031 (Camden), 1942-1952 box 136

TR-1032 to TR-1070 (Camden), 1953-1955 box 137

TR-1071 to TR-1125 (Camden), 1955-1956 box 138

TR-1126 to TR-1170 (Camden), 1957 box 139

TR-1173 to TR-1186 (Camden), 1958-1960 box 140

TR-1549 to TR-1563 (Van Nuys), 1969 box 140

TR-1600 to TR-1625 (Moorestown), 1953-1959 box 140

TR-1626 to TR-1646 (Radar Div.), 1958-1960 box 141

TR-2000 to TR-2036 (Camden-TV), 1946-1956 box 141

TR-2037 to TR-2057 (Camden-TV), 1957-1959 box 142

TR-2059 (Indianapolis), 1969 box 142

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TR-2101 to TR-2104 (Graphic Sys.), 1967-1968 box 142

TR-2501 to TR-2502 (Globcom), 1969 box 142

TR-2625 (Princeton), 1963 box 142

TR-2801 to TR-2823 (Montreal), 1963-1969 box 142

TR-4000 to TR-40 17 (Harrison), 1946-1952 box 142

TR-4018 to TR-4068 (Harrison), 1952-1969 box 143

TR-4100 to TR-4116 (Lancaster), 1946-1958 box 143

TR-4117 to TR-4136 (Lancaster), 1960-1969 box 144

TR-4705 (Camden), 1958 box 144

TR-4809 (West Coast), 1957 box 144

TR-6051 to TR-6054 (Princeton), 1968-1969 box 144

TR-6101 (Trenton-Medical), 1967 box 144

TR-6201 to TR-6217 (Camden), 1961-1969 box 144

TR-6301 to TR-6312 (Camden), 1962-1965 box 144

TR-8500 to TR-8507 (Somerville), 1959-1969 box 145

TR-8704 (New York), 1958 box 145

TR-8844 to TR-8858 (Princeton), 1969 box 145

TR-58-506-1 to TR-58-588-4, 1958 box 145

TR-58-588-5 to TR-59-585-5, 1958-1959 box 146

TR-59-585-6 to TR-60-570-4, 1959-1960 box 147

TR-60-570-5 to TR-60-582-11, 1960 box 148

TR-60-582-12 to TR-60-597-73, 1960 box 149

TR-60-598-1 to TR-61-563-3, 1960-1961 box 150

TR-61-563-4 to TR-61-586-3, 1961 box 151

TR-61-588-1 to TR-62-389-4, 1961-1962 box 152

TR-62-389-5 to TR-62-563-1, 1962 box 153

TR-62-563-2 to TR-62-590-1, 1962 box 154

TR-62-591-1 to TR-63-419-12, 1962-1963 box 155

TR-63-419-13 to TR-63-558-1, 1963 box 156

TR-63-558-2 to TR-64--419-5, 1963-1964 box 157

TR-64-419-7 to TR-64-500-1, 1964 box 158

TR-64-553-1 to TR-65-419-10, 1964-1965 box 159

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TR-65-419-11 to TR-65-687-5, 1965 box 160

TR-65-687-6 to TR-66-582-1, 1965-1966 box 161

TR-66-582-2 to TR-66-682-15, 1966 box 162

"Z" Reports Title/Description Instances Z-1 to Z-76, 1944-1951 box 162

Z-77 to Z-91-20, 1952 box 163

Z-91-21 to Z-137, 1937-1953 box 164

Z-138 to Z-190-B, 1949 -1956 box 165

Z-190-C to Z-220-01-6, 1954-1956 box 166

Z-223 to Z-241-6, 1955-1957 box 167

Z-241-7 to Z-273, 1937-1957 box 168

Z-274 to Z-411-SR-5, 1957-1961 box 169

Z-411-SR-6 to Z-763, 1961-1967 box 170

Z-831, Z-837, Z-1117, 1967-1983 box 171

Lincoln Laboratory (MIT) Reports Title/Description Instances TM-11 to TM-48, 1952-1953 box 238

M-2325 to M-2810, 1953-1954 box 238

TR-2 to TR-316, 1951-1963 box 238

Jet Propulsion Laboratory Reports Title/Description Instances 32-819, 1966 box 238

Engineering Notebooks Scope and Content

RCA Manufacturing Company, Inc. Title/Description Instances Miscellaneous 1 to Miscellaneous 23 (1930s.1940s) box 171

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Miscellaneous 25 to Miscellaneous 48, 1930s-1940s box 172

Miscellaneous 49 to Miscellaneous 70, 1930s-1940s box 173

Miscellaneous 71 to Miscellaneous 95, 1930s-1940s box 174

Misc. 96 to Misc. 118, 1930s-1940s box 175

G-2706 (1936) box 194

RCA Victor Division Title/Description Instances G-1004, G-1101, 1930s-1940s box 175

G-1196 to G-1567, 1940s box 176

G-1568 to G-1592, 1948-1949 box 177

G-1594 to G-1616, 1948-1949 box 178

G-1617 to G-1640, 1948-1949 box 179

G-1641 to G-1661, 1949 box 180

G-1662 to G-1689, 1949-1950 box 181

G-1690 to G-1713, 1949-1950 box 182

G-1714 to G-1738, 1949-1950 box 183

G-1739 to G-1764, 1949-1950 box 184

G-1765 to G-1791, 1949-1950 box 185

G-1792 to G-1816, 1949-1950 box 186

G-1817 to G-1841, 1949-1950 box 187

G-1842 to G-1869, 1950 box 188

G-1870 to G-1895, 1950 box 189

G-1896 to G-1923, 1950 box 190

G-1924 to G-1949, 1950 box 191

G-1950 to G-1978, 1950 box 192

G-1979 to G-2005, 1950 box 193

G-2006 to G-2015, 1950 box 194

51-100, 1951 box 194

Standards Scope and Content

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written specifications or instructions and graphs showing performance characteristics. The Master Items list all the parts of a particular assembly with drawings, if appropriate. The Manufacturing Guides outline procedures to be followed in the manufacture of components and materials. The Test Report Index refers to microfilmed reports that are not part of this accession.

"Master Items" Title/Description Instances Index, 267 to 399 box 194

400 to 1,599 box 195

1,600 to 2,649 box 196

2,650 to 3,599 box 197

3,600 to 5,999 box 198

6,000 to 8,099 box 199

8,100 to 9,449 box 200

9,450 to 10,649 box 201

10,650 to 11,799 box 202

11,800 to 12, 899 box 203

12,900 to 14,799 box 204

14,800to 17,099 box 205

17,100 to 19,099 box 206

19,200 to 22,899 box 207

22,900 to 27,199 box 208

27,200 to 28,099 box 209

28,100 to 29,049 box 210

29,050 to 31,324 box 211

31,325 to 32,999 box 212

33,000 to 35,699 box 213

35,700 to 39,349 box 214

39,350 to 42,999 box 215

43,000 to 44,499 box 216

44,500 to 49,999, 100,000 to 555,199 box 217

555,200 to 557,199 box 218

557,200 to 560,374 box 219

560,375 to 581,449 box 220

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581,450 to 582,549 box 221

582,550 to 591,999 box 222

592,000 to 597,199 box 223

597,200 to 8,224,149 box 224

8,224,150 to 8,224,549 box 225

8,224,550 to 8,224,849 box 226

8,224,850 to 8,230,451 box 227

8,230,451 to 8,268,299 box 228

8,268,300 to 8,268,999 box 229

Loose items: 8,648A to 1,504,955

RCA Government Standards Title/Description Instances Standard parts list - Parts 1 & 2 box 230

Standard parts list - Vol. 2, Part 3 - Resistors box 230

Standard parts list - Vol. 2, Part 4 - Capacitors box 230

Standard parts list - Vol. 5 - Metallic materials & design box 231

Standard parts list - Vol. 8 - Drafting standards box 231

Standard parts list - Vol. 9 - Electronic packaging box 231

Standard parts list - Vol. 10 - Manufacturing specifications box 232

Standard parts list - Vol. 12 - Workmanship specifications box 232

Application notes box 233

Manufacturing guides - Vols. 1 & 2 box 233

Test report index - Vol. 1, January 1961-January 1969 box 234 Scope and Contents note

Cartridges No. 1-37.

Test report index - Vol. 2 box 234 Scope and Contents note

Cartridges No. 38-60.

Test report index - Vol. 3 box 234

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Scope and Contents note

Cartridges No. 61 and up.

RCA Design Standards Title/Description Instances Computer Systems Division Information Systems Division box 234

RCA Drafting Standards Title/Description Instances Information Systems Division box 235

RCA General Standards Title/Description Instances Vol. 1 - Component standards, Electronic box 235

Vol. 2 - General box 235

Vol. 3 - General box 235

Vol. 4 - General box 235

RCA specifications: Material, Component, Test, Vols. 1-4 box 236

RCA workmanship specifications - Information Systems box 236 Division

Electronic Industries Association Title/Description Instances Vol. 1 - 103-0-1 to RS-179 box 237

Vol. 2 - RS-180 to RS-208 box 237

Vol. 3 - RS-209 box 237

Vol. 4 - RS-210 to RS-239 box 237

Vol. 5 - RS-240 to RS-279 box 237

Vol. 6 - RS-280 to RS-319 box 237

Publications & Manuals Scope and Content

Six series of miscellaneous publications and manuals are almost random samples. They include product news bulletins and a series of computer operating and programming manuals. Historical miscellany includes a history of the Advanced Technological Laboratories, a paper on RCA's contributions to the space program, copies of two architectural articles on buildings in the Camden Plant, and programs from award ceremonies. "Instructions" are short operating instructions for RCA devices or looseleaf trade catalog pages for an assortment of electronic

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components. Finally there are series of training manuals prepared by RCA Institutes, Inc., including ones on computer programming and television repair.

Bulletins Title/Description Instances Miscellaneous box 239

Tube Characteristics, 1945 box 239

"What's New in RF and Microwave", 1973-1974 box 239

"What's New in Solid State", 1971-1981 box 239

Computer Manuals Title/Description Instances RCA Series Information Manual BF-000-01-00 box 239

RCA 301 Basic Training Manual box 239

RCA 301 COBOL Narrator User's Reference Manual box 239

RCA 301 Communications System Programmers' Reference box 239 Manual

RCA 301 Control Logic Training Manual Vol. 2 box 239

RCA 301 Training Manual box 239

RCA 301 Programmers' Reference Manual box 239

RCA 501 Programmers' Reference Manual box 239

RCA 601 General Information Manual box 239

RCA 3301 Realcom EDP Systems Reference Manual box 239

Historical Miscellany Title/Description Instances Advanced Technology Laboratories, 1929-1985 box 239

Awards box 239

Cabinet Factory (Camden) box 239

Camden Office Building box 239

Space Program box 239

Instructions Title/Description Instances Aircraft Radio box 239

Aircraft Radiocompass box 239 - Page 65- RCA Corporation records 2069

Amplifiers box 239

Camera Tube box 239

Color Picture Tubes box 239

Color Picture Tube Assembly box 240

Computer Circuits box 240

Digital Display Devices box 240

Digital Integrated Circuits box 240

Display Tubes box 240

Electrical Feed-Thru box 240

Electron Gun box 240

Electro-optics Flanges box 240

Full-Wave Vacuum Rectifier box 240

Glass Window box 240

Half-Wave Vacuum Rectifier box 240

Heat Pipe box 240

Image Orthicon box 240

Infrared Emitter box 240

Lasers box 240

Microphone box 240

Microwave Device box 240

Modulation Monitors box 240

Pencil Tube box 240

Pentodes box 240

Photomultiplier box 240

Police Radio box 240

Power Device box 240

Power Hybrid Circuits box 240

Power Transistor box 240

Power Tubes box 240

Power Unit box 240

Radio Receivers box 240

Radio Transmitters box 240

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Silicon Controlled Rectifiers box 240

Solid State Devices box 240

Storage Tube box 240

Television Scanning Circuits box 240

Thyristors box 240

Transceivers box 240

Triodes box 240

Tube Socket box 240

Tunnel Diode Amplifier box 240

Vacuum Pump box 240

Vibration Pickup Unit box 240

Video Signal Generator box 240

Miscellaneous Publications Title/Description Instances Aerial Survey Services for Microwave Radio Relay Systems, box 240 1952

Beam Deflection Tubes box 240

Microwave and Very High Frequency Radio Relay Systems, box 240 1952

Photomultiplier Tubes Solid State box 240

RCA Institutes, Inc., Training Manuals Title/Description Instances Autotext Introduction to Electronics Theory Units 1 and 2 box 240

Communications Electronics Study Groups 1-9 box 240

Computer Programming Study Groups 2, 4 and 5 box 240

Television Servicing Course Study Groups 1-10 box 240

Your Career in a World of Electronics Schools of Television box 240 and Electronics Technology, 1964-1965

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