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Entertainment Magazines

Media History Digital Library

magazine covers for the titles Business Screen, Picture Stories, Motion Picture Classic, Radio Age and Film Daily
Media History Digital Library
- a growing collection of scanned, historical media and broadcast periodicals.  
Excellent examples of early 20th century media industry magazine content and design.  Some available titles include:

  • Business Screen (1938-1973)
  • The Film Daily (1918-1936)
  • International Photographer (1929-1941)
  • Journal of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers (1930-1949)
  • Journal of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (1950-1954)
  • The Educational Screen (1922-1962)
  • Moving Picture World (1912-1918)
  • Photoplay (1914-1940)
  • Radio Age: Research, Manufacturing, Communications, Broadcasting, Television (1942-1957)
  • Radio Broadcast (1922-1930)

Notable Magazine Titles

 

 adweek magazine cover

A cross-section of current periodical titles available for browsing on the 2nd floor, current periodicals section of Bird Library or at the current periodicals section of the Carnegie Library.

* = indicates a title of particular interest to the advertising and design professions.  Additional general interest magazines listed may be desired because of advertising they contain:

Notable Magazine Titles
A to H L to W

 

 

  • *Adage
  • Adbusters
  • *Admap
  • *Adweek
  • Billboard
  • Bitch
  • British Journal of Photography (Carnegie Library)
  • *Broadcasting & Cable
  • Call Sheet
  • *Communication Arts
  • *Contagious 
  • Downbeat
  • Elle
  • Emmy
  • *Entertainment Weekly
  • ESPN
  • Esquire
  • Femina
  • Fortune
  • GQ
  • Good Housekeeping
  • Harper's Bazaar
  • HFN

 

 

  • *Lurzer's International Archive: Advertising Worldwide
  • Latina
  • Modern Drummer
  • Mother Jones
  • Ms.
  • The Nation
  • National Review
  • New York
  • New Yorker
  • Parents
  • Paris Match
  • Rolling Stone
  • Runner's World
  • Saturday Evening Post
  • Spectator
  • Sports Illustrated
  • Time
  • Travel & Leisure
  • UOMO
  • Vanity Fair
  • *Variety
  • Vogue (British, Italia and U.S. editions)
  • W (Carnegie Library)