[78-L] Talking Machine World and / or Review

[Malcolm Rockwell]

The branch of the NYPL at 5th Avenue and 40th Street (not absolutely 
sure of this location, but it's near the main branch) where most of the 
AV equipment is housed has all of TMW bound. You can probably track them 
down thru the library's database. I used them last I was in NYC, 8 years 
ago.
Mal

*******

Geoffrey Wheeler wrote:
> There was a magazine called Talking Machine World (TMW). Now I read 
> somewhere about a magazine called Talking Machine Review. Was this a 
> misprint for TMW?
> Has such a magazine been digitized for easy access by researchers?
>
>
> Talking Machine World is a very difficult publication to source. Even 
> information about its years of publication is often incorrect. I 
> believe the reason for the scarcity of its issues today is that it was 
> a trade magazine, and therefore regarded by people in the trade as 
> disposable once the next issue arrived. Although other trade magazines 
> were published contemporaneously with TMW, TMW stands as THE 
> inexhaustible source for information about sound recordings and the 
> recording industry during the years of its publication. Check the 
> internet for “talking machine world” and you will find various websites 
> that may prove helpful.
>
> Talking Machine World from January 15, 1905 to December 15, 1928 and 
> Talking Machine World & Radio Music Merchant from January 15, 1929 to 
> December 15, 1930 are available on microfilm through the Center for 
> Research Libraries (CRL), a consortium of North American universities, 
> colleges, and independent research libraries. Not available are the 
> last two years of publication, January 15, 1931 through December 15, 
> 1932. The consortium acquires and preserves traditional and digital 
> resources for research and teaching and makes them available to member 
> institutions through interlibrary loan and electronic delivery. Based 
> at the University of Chicago, CRL has a web site at: 
> wwwcrl.uchicago.edu. By working through a CRL member university 
> library, you may then be able to access CRL materials. Web site 
> click-ons include: Collection Search Links, CRL Member Institutions, 
> Search Collection Databases, How to Use CRL Collections, and more.  I 
> have seen copies of TMW&RMM from the period January 15, 1931 through 
> December 15, 1932 in bound volumes in a private collection.
> _______________________________________________
> 78-L mailing list
> 78-L at klickitat.78online.com
> http://klickitat.78online.com/mailman/listinfo/78-l
>
>