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 Return to top of page · Post #: 1 · Written at 10:20:36 PM on 28 January 2014.
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 RadioDaze
 Location: Sydney, NSW
 Member since 24 December 2013
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Hi everyone,

I thought this might be of interest to some members here.
The National Library of Australia (NLA) has a fairly new website called 'Trove' which is an indexed digitised online catalogue of most Australian newspapers and magazines ranging from the late 1800's until the 1980's.

I typed in the model of my HMV TV and HMV console radio in the search and discovered lots of original advertisements from the day.

HMV TV and Radio Advertisment
HMV TV and Radio Advertisment


Visit http://trove.nla.gov.au/.

You can download PDF or JPEG copies of items that you find. It's amazing how much time and effort is spent digitising these old newspapers.

Trove is a great website for research if you have a passion for preserving Australian history as I do.

Cheers!

RadioDaze.


 
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 Art
 Location: Somewhere, USA
 Member since 22 October 2013
 Member #: 1437
 Postcount: 896

Thanks, quite interesting.
I found some pics of the Airzone factory,
and a radio shop in my home town from 1951 that I knew nothing about
until the next company (SEQEB) took over the biulding.
 
 Return to top of page · Post #: 3 · Written at 10:46:51 PM on 28 January 2014.
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 GTC
 Location: Sydney, NSW
 Member since 28 January 2011
 Member #: 823
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Yep, we refer to the Trove site fairly often. The display ads (when found) are particularly useful for identifying radios and radiograms.


 
 Return to top of page · Post #: 4 · Written at 11:11:11 PM on 28 January 2014.
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 Maven
 Location: Canberra, ACT
 Member since 23 August 2012
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The ads are particularly useful for identifying models later than 1956 when the AORSM ceased publication, and they also confirm the original appearance of models that might have undergone some trauma over their lifetime. (I wouldn't mind looking like my own photographs from 1960 either.)

Maven
 
 Return to top of page · Post #: 5 · Written at 2:29:21 PM on 31 January 2014.
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 NewVista
 Location: Silver City WI, US
 Member since 10 May 2013
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 Postcount: 977

Silly question, can you full-page the search result, I couldn't. Might be my browser.
 
 Return to top of page · Post #: 6 · Written at 8:10:31 PM on 31 January 2014.
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 RadioDaze
 Location: Sydney, NSW
 Member since 24 December 2013
 Member #: 1472
 Postcount: 22

Hi NewVista,

Did you mean viewing the full page of a single search result?

If you click on a search result, the newspaper image should appear on the screen. If you click in the top right hand corner of the image where it says 'View Entire Page', then this will bring up a view of the full page. You can then download the entire newspaper or that single page as a PDF. I find that viewing the entire page first allows you to save a higher reolution image. For printing on A4, I find the resolution is pretty good.

Cheers!

RadioDaze.
 
 Return to top of page · Post #: 7 · Written at 4:56:55 AM on 1 February 2014.
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 NewVista
 Location: Silver City WI, US
 Member since 10 May 2013
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Meant to say I wanted to 'full screen' image window. Would be nice if it could be done.


 
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