Sarnoff Project News

Welcome to the news site for the David Sarnoff Library Collection Processing Project. The project concluded in early 2017.

Click here for a list of links to detailed information about material in the Sarnoff Collection via Hagley's Finding Aids Database.

This site was used to keep everyone informed about the progress of the project. It now serves as an archive of articles that offer insights into the Sarnoff Collection written by those who worked on the project. If you have questions about the collection, please contact us at askhagley@hagley.org

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Latest News Releases

March 23, 2016
Marconi and Sarnoff: On the Same Wavelength
A well-known part of the David Sarnoff story is that in 1906 at the age of 15 he began working as an office boy for the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of America.
March 1, 2016
RCA-Whirlpool Merger through Advertising
In November I was given the task to process a collection of advertisements related to consumer electronics. The Alexander Magoun advertising collection includes ads from RCA, Motorola, General Electric, and other companies ranging in date from 1888 to 1989.
February 11, 2016
UFOs and Teddy Bears: Quality Control and Public Relations
Electron microscopy offered engineers a valuable quality control tool for assessing products and revealing manufacturing defects. But with a bit of imagination and whimsical captions, the photographs also had public relations applications.
January 22, 2016
The David Sarnoff Library: The First Three Decades
Under the management of Curator Cary J. King, Jr. and his secretary Dorothy Camfield, the David Sarnoff Library (DSL) received 8,300 visitors in its first four and a half years.
December 15, 2015
Holiday Telecommunications Advertising from Occupied Japan
Ministry of Communications poster, 1947
December 10, 2015
“Good Luck and Well Wishes” – Learning about Work at RCA through a Retirement Scrapbook
There are many different methods for researchers to learn about work.
November 13, 2015
Treasures of the Sarnoff Collection: The scrapbook boards of Charles B. Jennings
Two photographs of an American man wearing glasses and a suit and tie sitting at dinner with the Yamagishi family... A newspaper clipping about a woman going to the movies with her husband in Chiba, a city east of Tokyo... A photograph of a young boy and his dog
September 28, 2015
Employee Photographs: Photographic Evidence of Fashion Standards and Outliers
The Public Affairs Department of the David Sarnoff Research Center maintained biographical files of employees. On the visual side, the materials mainly consist of black and white photographs and negatives.

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