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| Admiral |
Full color 6 1/4" x 9 3/4" ad for their complete Home Entertainment System. The ad has a picture of a formally dressed man sitting in a tiger-skinned chair watching a boxing match on this unit while two other equally dressed men stand laughing at his intensity. Beside having the television set on the doors revealing the record turntable, the radio tuner and the storage space for records are all open. The headline calls this "Complete Home Entertainment All in One Luxurious Console" and gives a price of $499.95 before the text goes into details of the unit itself. |
November 1948 National Geographic |
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$5.00 |
View Television 37 |
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| Admiral |
Full color 9 3/4" x 14" ad for their Television Receivers. The ad has a picture of a stylish lady looking over her shoulder at the Model 321K18 with a Twenty inch Television Screen. The ad lists some of the features of their combinations and claims that prices start at $349.95, excise tax included. They make the claim to having "The clearest Picture in Television". This ad is larger than my scanner bed so the outer edges of the ad will not be visible in the scanned view. |
April 2, 1951 Life magazine |
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$5.00 |
View Television 21 |
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| Admiral |
Full color 9 1/2" x 13" ad that discusses how "Admiral brings three new major improvements to color television". Descriptions are included in the ad for how they have attained 1) Greater Dependability, 2) More Natural Color and 3) New Easier Tuning. Shown in the ad are The Chanceford Model L1629 and The Courtney Model L1311. This ad is larger than my scanner bed so the outer edges of the ad will not be visible in the scanned view. |
November 16, 1963 Saturday Evening Post |
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$4.50 |
View Television 28 |
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| Admiral |
Full color 9 1/2" x 13 1/2" ad for their Color Television Sets. The ad has a large picture of the 25" Channing Model LG5511 in a living room with a picture of a beautiful lady dressed in red on the screen. The ad headline begins "Why your first Color TV should be an Admiral" and list four reasons with explanations. The ad lists that You'll see the finest color quality ever, that You'll have unequaled ease of tuning, that You'll enjoy long, trouble-free use and that You'll get big 25" rectangular pictures, new slim cabinets. This ad is larger than my scanner bed so the outer edges of the ad will not be visible in the scanned view. |
January 28, 1966 Life magazine |
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$4.00 |
View Television 29 |
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| Belmont |
Full color 10" x 13 1/2" wartime ad meant to ensure the public that Belmont would be producing televisions with the same quality that their radios have been known for. The ad has a drawing of a little boy watching a baseball game on a set that has a pop-up picture and the caption claims that "By showing a black and white picture on the television screen in the above illustration, Belmont is being realistic. This is the type of picture you can expect to see. But when television in color is ready and practical, Belmont will have it for you". This ad is larger than my scanner bed so the outer edges of the ad will not be visible in the scanned view. |
May 21, 1945 Life magazine |
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$5.00 |
View Television 15 |
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| Capehart |
Full color 10" x 13" ad for what they claim to be "The World's Finest Instrument for Home Entertainment". There is a large picture of the Capehart New Englander television set with the doors closed so the set itself is not visible but the French Provincial styling of the sturdy cabinet is. There is another, smaller picture of this set with the doors opened and a picture visible on the set. The ad has another picture of the Capehart Hepplewhite Phonograph-Radio and a description of what it is capable of. In several places in the ad these products from the Capehart-Farnsworth Corporation are referred to as being the Best. This ad is larger than my scanner bed so the outer edges of the ad will not be visible in the scanned view. |
February 27, 1951 Look magazine |
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$5.00 |
View Television 25 |
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| CBS |
Black and white 9 1/2" x 12" ad with Jackie Gleason for their replacement vacuum tubes. The ad has a large picture of the face of Jackie Gleason and a picture of a television that has lost it's vertical hold. The ad headline warns that "When your TV picture 'acts up', Here's one way Women can be sure of quality TV repairs" and the text tells you to "Just ask your serviceman for CBS Tubes". This ad is larger than my scanner bed so the outer edges of the ad will not be visible in the scanned view. |
May 9, 1955 Life magazine |
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$4.50 |
View Gleason / CBS Tubes |
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| Crosley |
Full color 9 1/2" x 13 1/2" ad for their Ultra-Fidelity TV. The ad has a picture of a grandmother sitting in her chair while her grandson lies at her feet watching Howdy Doody on a Crosley 16" with doors. There is a smaller picture of a Crosley 12 1/2" Console with doors in the lower right hand of the ad. The ad headline, referring to the TV sets, claims "Design? It's superb! Performance? It's marvelous!". This ad is larger than my scanner bed so the outer edges of the ad will not be visible in the scanned view. |
January 16, 1950 Life magazine |
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$5.00 |
View Television 20 |
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| Crosley |
Black and white 10" x 13" ad tells you about the "Crosley Full Room Vision". This wonderful feature "puts every seat on the 50-yard line". This ad is larger than my scanner bed so the outer edges of the ad will not be visible in the scanned view. |
November 6, 1950 Life magazine |
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$4.50 |
View Television 3 |
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| Dumont |
Black and white 6 1/4" x 9 3/4" ad for their |
October 1949 National Geographic |
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$4.50 |
View Television 36 |
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| General Electric |
Black and white 9 1/2" x 12 1/2" ad for their Model 801 Console Unit with a picture of Cleveland Indians Pitcher Bob Feller going into his windup. The ad headline claims that if you buy this Television Set, "You'll be close up when Feller pitches!". This ad is larger than my scanner bed so the outer edges of the ad will not be visible in the scanned view. |
August 4, 1947 Life magazine |
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$4.00 |
View Feller / GE |
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| General Electric |
Full color 10" x 13" ad for their Black-Daylite Television. The ad photo shows a little girl trying to feed a dog biscuit to a dog on her television screen. The ad headline claims that "G.E. makes you feel it's real!". This ad is larger than my scanner bed so the outer edges of the ad will not be visible in the scanned view. |
January 29, 1951 Life magazine |
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$4.50 |
View Television 4 |
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| General Electric |
Full color 9 1/2" x 13 1/2" ad for their televisions with the Black-Daylight technology. The ad headline claims that "New 17 inch G-E puts new life in Life-Size" and has a picture of a little girl holding a square frame around her face as she mimics a lady who is appearing on the Model 17C103 G. E. set next to her. The ad mentions a price of $319.95 for this set and describes some of it's features. Below this picture are samples of the Model 17T2 which is a 17" Table Model that was sold for $289.95 and the Model 16K1 16" TV - Radio - Phonograph which sold for $499.95. This ad is larger than my scanner bed so the outer edges of the ad will not be visible in the scanned view. |
March 26, 1951 Life magazine |
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$5.00 |
View Television 23 |
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| General Electric |
Black and white 10" x 13 1/2" ad for their Aluminized Tubes. The ad has a picture of William Bendix, the star of the popular NBC show, The Life of Riley, and shows how well he will look when your television set is able to take advantage of the Aluminized Reflecting Surface and the Glowing Phosphor Surface that comes with this product. The ad headline claims that if you want "To see the Real Life of Riley, change to this new G-E Tube". This ad is larger than my scanner bed so the outer edges of the ad will not be visible in the scanned view. |
October 5, 1953 Life magazine |
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$5.00 |
View Bendix / GE |
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| General Electric |
Full color 6 1/4" x 9 3/4" ad for their 4 new Television Models. The ad headline states "4 Great New TV Stars from $129.95" and the ad refers to them as lo-boys and pacers. The ad has pictures that show models 21C152 and 21C156 in the lo-boy category and models 17T21 and 21C108 in the pacers category. The ad discusses the fact that it was felt that pictures low to the ground give the most "natural-angle viewing" and how these sets also had "round-the-room wide-angle viewing". |
March 1955 National Geographic |
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$5.00 |
View Television 35 |
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| General Electric |
Full color 9 1/2" x 13" ad for the realistic picture that you will get with you General Electric Color Television. The ad has a a picture of an unidentified General Electric television with a close-up of a lady with blonde hair and wearing a red coat and hat. Behind this set is this same lady holding a gun while standing in front of a male body lying on the floor. The ad headline claims that "If they send you an ash-blonde spy in a scarlet cape with a silver French automatic...that's exactly what you get/". The ad text, while describing the wonderful color reproductionn, mentions that "their etched-circuit boards are guaranteed for life". This ad is larger than my scanner bed so the outer edges of the ad will not be visible in the scanned view. |
November 16, 1963 Saturday Evening Post |
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$4.50 |
View Television 27 |
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| General Electric |
Full color 10" x 12 1/2" ad shows five different models with descriptions. The model shown at the top of the page has a scene from the movie "The Undefeated" with John Wayne prominent on the screen. This ad is larger than my scanner bed so the outer edges of the ad will not be visible in the scanned view. |
October 31, 1969 Life magazine |
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$4.00 |
View Television 8 |
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| Hotpoint |
Full color 10" x 13 1/2" ad for their Portable Hi-Vi TV's. The ad has a black and white picture of a family's living room where several people are sitting on the couch watching and a lady is lying on the carpeted floor eating a sandwich while she tries to cover one eye from the tension on the screen. The ad has a headline of "Here are 3 of 7 colorful Portables in Hotpoint's complete line of all-new TV sets" over a picture that has a 13-lb portable (Model 9S102), a 14" portable (Model 14S203) and the 17" Hi-Vi Portable (Model17S301). The ad claims that prices for their portable TV's start at $99.95. This ad is larger than my scanner bed so the outer edges of the ad will not be visible in the scanned view. |
October 15, 1956 Life magazine |
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$5.00 |
View Television 19 |
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| Magnavox |
Full color 7 1/2" x 10 1/2" ad for some of the features available in their sets. The ad has a picture with several couples gathered in a modern-style showing their surprise at the Model 552 unit ($995) and the way it looks and sounds. The ad headline assures us that "Only Magnavox combines Mangacolor and Astro-Sonic Stereo Hi-Fi in one family-entertainment theatre". The ad text talks about some of what went into these units to make them sound so good and present such a good picture. |
December 6, 1963 Time magazine |
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$4.00 |
View Television 30 |
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| Motorola |
Three color 6 1/4" x 9 3/4" ad for their Living Room Theatre. There is a larger picture of a family watching the picture on the Model VF103 which it describes as being a 6 in ONE unit. These six functions are listed as being 1) Television in a big screen, 2) Automatic Phonograph for new "Long Playing" records, 3) Automatic Phonograph for standard records, 4) FM Radio, 5) AM Radio and 6) Roomy Record Storage Space. The ad also has smaller pictures of other products such as the Model VK106 Television Consolette, the Model VT105 Table model Television, the Model VT71 Television, the Model 78FM22 Radio/Record Player, the Model 68F11 Table Radio/Phonograph, the Model 5A7A Playmate Jr. and the Model 58R11 Table Radio. |
October 1948 National Geographic |
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$5.00 |
View Television 34 |
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| Motorola |
Full color 6 1/4" x 9 3/4" ad for their Television Sets. Under the headline urging you to "Give your family a new thrill this Christmas morning Motorola TV" is a picture of a Model 17F1 playing a show with Santa Claus to the enjoyment of a young boy and girl and an assortment of their stuffed animals. There is another, smaller picture of this unit with all of the doors opened up so that readers can view the other accessories and the text gives a general description of it's capabilities. |
December 1950 National Geographic |
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$5.00 |
View Television 33 |
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| Philco |
Full color 10" x 13" ad for the Philco Balanced Beam Television. This ad shows the television chassis and the complete cabinet. This ad is larger than my scanner bed so the outer edges of the ad will not be visible in the scanned view. |
October 8, 1951 Life magazine |
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$4.50 |
View Television 1 |
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| Philco |
Full color 10" x 13" ad shows several different of the Slender Seventeener television. The ad headline claims that "You have never seen a table TV like this". This ad is larger than my scanner bed so the outer edges of the ad will not be visible in the scanned view. |
August 26, 1957 Life magazine |
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$4.50 |
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| Philco |
Three color 9 1/2" x 12 1/2" ad for their patented Cool Chassis. The top ad headline informs us that "TV sets don't wear out - they burn out" and they remedy that fact by saying that "Only Philco has the patented Cool Chasis. Beats the heat, major cause of TV breakdowns. Gives greater dependability - longer TV life!". To show what a TV with a Cool Chassis looks like there is a picture of the Philco Town House TV - The Nob Hill with a short list of features on this unit. This ad is larger than my scanner bed so the outer edges of the ad will not be visible in the scanned view. |
October 22, 1963 Look magazine |
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$4.00 |
View Television 12 |
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| Philco |
Three color 9 1/2" x 13" ad for their Cool Chassis. The ad has a picture of a Dutchboy Pennsylvania Dutch Provincial cabinet under the headline that warns us that "TV sets don't wear out - they burn out! Only Philco has the patented Cool Chassis. Beats the heat, major cause of TV breakdowns. Gives greater dependability - longer TV life." This ad is larger than my scanner bed so the outer edges of the ad will not be visible in the scanned view. |
November 16, 1963 Saturday Evening Post |
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$4.00 |
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| Philco |
Full color 9 1/2" x 13" ad for their Color TV's. The ad has a picture of a Philco Television with a colorful picture and two men talking while one holds his happy kids. The headline over these scenes says "So you told your next-door neighbor you're not getting color tv until somebody gets the bugs our of it? Better get a new story. Or a new Philco" and the text talks about the amazing changes that have been made in the Philco sets. This ad is larger than my scanner bed so the outer edges of the ad will not be visible in the scanned view, |
November 12, 1965 Life magazine |
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$4.00 |
View Television 32 |
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| RCA Victor |
Full color 9 1/2" x 13 1/2" ad for two of their new Television Sets. The ad has a picture of the RCA Victor 8T270 and describes what features you will enjoy with this set after paying your $495.00. There is a smaller picture of a smaller set, the RCA Victor 8TR29 which was a table-model that was a television set combined with an AM-FM radio. The ad mentions some of the features and a price of $375.00. The prices listed for both of these items mention that Installation was extra. This ad is larger than my scanner bed so the outer edges of the ad will not be visible in the scanned view. |
May 9, 1949 Life magazine |
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$5.00 |
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| RCA Victor |
Black and white 9 1/2" x 12 1/2" ad for four of their Television Sets. The ad has a picture of a lady standing next to their Model 17T160 Consolette which is described and mentions a price of $329.50. Below this are pictures of three different console models, the 17-inch Fairfield Model 7T122 which was on sale for $299.95, the 17-inch Regency Model 7T123 which was on sale for $329.95 and the 19-inch Hillsdale Model 9T126 which was on sale for $359.95. The ad also mentions the RCA Victor "45" that could be bought for $12.95 and attached to any radio, phonograph or TV set to allow you to play 45 records. This ad is larger than my scanner bed so the outer edges of the ad will not be visible in the scanned view. |
October 22, 1951 Life magazine |
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$5.00 |
View Television 18 |
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| RCA Victor |
Black and white 9 1/2" x 12 1/2" ad for their television sets. Shown in the larger photo is the 21-inch Carrol which has the ability to swivel and a smaller photo of the Medalist 21. This ad is larger than my scanner bed so the outer edges of the ad will not be visible in the scanned view. |
September 20, 1954 Life magazine |
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$4.00 |
View Television 10 |
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| RCA |
Full color 7 1/2" x 10 1/4" ad for the fact that RCA Television Sets are available with the ColorTrak technology. The ad describes how this technology adjusts the color on the set for you and you don't have to get up and do it yourself. The ad has a picture of the Bordeaux model under the headline that asks the question "The ColorTrak System. Could it be the best 25" color TV ever made?". |
March 14. 1977 Sports Illustrated |
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$4.00 |
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| Sharp |
Full color 10" x 12" ad shows a tabletop TV with a football game on it. The ad headline claims that "This is not a simulated tv picture". This ad is larger than my scanner bed so the outer edges of the ad will not be visible in the scanned view. |
October 31, 1969 Life magazine |
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$4.00 |
View Television 7 |
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| Sparton |
Full color 9 1/2" x 13" ad for their Cosmic Eye television. The ad has a drawing of a television set sitting at home plate of a filled baseball stadium. The ad headline says that this television is "Recommended by America's fine stores for it's Vivid Realism, for it's Quality". This ad is larger than my scanner bed so the outer edges of the ad will not be visible in the scanned view. |
April 27, 1953 Life magazine |
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$4.50 |
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| Sparton |
Full color 9 1/2" x 13 1/2" ad for another one of their Cosmic Eye Televisions. This ad has a picture of a barn that has the doors slightly opened so we can see past the sign that says "Barn Dance" and view the 24" Sparton Crusader television that is showing a man in a western outfit playing a fiddle. Next to the television is a rocking chair with another fiddle but no person to play it. The ad headline calls this "TV so real you could almost join the dance!" which is what they want you to think actually happened. At the bottom of this ad are shown some of their Sky Beam Radios such as the Easy-Goer portable, the Tag-Along portable, the Morning Star clock-radio and the Duette which is an 8-tube AM-FM. This ad is larger than my scanner bed so the outer edges of the ad will not be visible in the scanned view. |
October 12, 1953 Life magazine |
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$5.00 |
View Television 14 |
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| Sylvania |
Full color 9 1/2" x 12 1/2" ad for their Color TV's. The ad has a picture of a stylish color TV console with a picture of a lady sitting in a chair and talking on a telephone. The ad text talks about how Sylvania is owned by General Telephone & Electronics and describes some of the work they are doing for future products. This ad is larger than my scanner bed so the outer edges of the ad will not be visible in the scanned view. |
September 22, 1964 Look magazine |
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$4.50 |
View Television 38 |
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| Zenith |
Full color 9" x 12" ad for the "Zenith Glare-Ban 'Black' Tube TV". This ad, introducing the "new standard of Television picture quality" also shows one model of television, one model of TV-Radio-Phonograph and two different desk radios. The ad includes information for all products and prices for the two radios. |
December 1949 Better Homes & Gardens |
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| Zenith |
Full color 10" x 14" ad for their Black Magic TV and some of their other products. The ad has a picture of a lady in a green evening dress perched on a chair watching the picture on a Zenith TV Combination set called the Kilmer as two other formally dressed people stroll around the corner to see what is on. The ad headline calls it an "Enchanted Evening by Zenith. The setting: You...Your guests...1951 Black Magic TV with Reflection-Proof Screen". Shown in the bottom of the ad is a Table Radio called the Zephyr and a Standard Broadcast Portable called the Universal. The ad contains pretty good descriptions of all three units. This ad is larger than my scanner bed so the outer edges of the ad will not be visible in the scanned view. |
November 6, 1950 Life magazine |
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$5.00 |
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| Zenith |
Full color 10" x 14" ad for the Black Magic Television with the Blaxide Tube. Shown in the ad is the Wordsworth TV-Radio-Phonograph and two different table model radios. This ad is larger than my scanner bed so the outer edges of the ad will not be visible in the scanned view. |
November 27, 1950 Life magazine |
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$5.00 |
View Television 5 |
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| Zenith |
Black and white 9" x 12" ad for their Turret Tuner which allowed the user to change the channels from the comfort of his own chair. The ad has a picture of a Zenith Aldrich Console TV ($369.95) being watched by a man who holds the remarkable tuner in his hand while he switches between the three channels available to him. This ad is larger than my scanner bed so the outer edges of the ad will not be visible in the scanned view. |
February 1951 Better Homes & Gardens |
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$5.00 |
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| Zenith |
Full color 9 1/2" x 13 1/2" ad for their sets with Top Tuning. The largest picture shows their revolutionary new Model X which is described and a price of $379.95 is mentioned. Below this set are pictures of the Melbourne Model R1812R 17" for $179.95 and the Sutton Model R2230R 21" for $219.95. This ad is larger than my scanner bed so the outer edges of the ad will not be visible in the scanned view. |
September 17, 1954 Collier's |
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| Zenith |
Black and white 9 1/2" x 13" ad for their Slim-Line Decorator TV's. The ad picture shows three different portable models: the Jamaica Model L2005F, The Sunnyside Model 2214L with Space Command Remote Control and the Caribbean Model L2014W. All of these portable TV's have a 19" picture and the prices start at $149.95. This ad is larger than my scanner bed so the outer edges of the ad will not be visible in the scanned view. |
October 22, 1963 Look magazine |
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$4.00 |
View Television 11 |
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| Zenith |
Full color 9 1/2" x 13" ad for their Handcrafted Color TV's. The ad has a drawing of a couple sitting and watching the very clear picture on their Zenith Television that is sitting in their living room. The ad headline assures you that "The pride you take in owning a Zenith Handcrafted Color TV is only equalled by the pride we take in Handcrafting it". The ad text talks about some of the other features including their Sunshine Color Tube and the Super Gold Video Guard Tuning System. This ad is larger than my scanner bed so the outer edges of the ad will not be visible in the scanned view. |
November 12, 1965 Life magazine |
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$4.00 |
View Television 31 |
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