RCA Corporation. Office of Company Historian.

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B.L. Aldridge was Manager of Sales and Administration of Home Instruments for the RCA Victor Division of RCA and its predecessors, the RCA Victor Company and the Victor Talking Machine Company. Aldridge functioned as part-time company historian from the early 1950s to 1959, during which time he prepared several company histories and assembled a collection of Victor and RCA Victor phonographs, radios and televisions that were displayed in travelling exhibitions and the company's "Hall of Progress" at Cherry Hill, N.J.

From the description of Files of B.L. Aldridge, 1897-1980. (Hagley Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122370787

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associatedWith Aldridge, B. L. person
associatedWith Barraud, Francis, 1856-1924. person
associatedWith Berliner, Emile, 1851-1929. person
associatedWith Berliner Gramophone Company. corporateBody
associatedWith Bull, Ole, 1810-1880. person
associatedWith Caruso, Enrico, 1873-1921. person
associatedWith Chicago Talking Machine Company. corporateBody
associatedWith Columbia Graphophone Company (U.S.) corporateBody
associatedWith Douglass, Leon Forrest. person
associatedWith Edison, Thomas A. 1847-1931. person
associatedWith Giannini, Ferruccio, 1869-1948. person
associatedWith Johnson, Eldridge Reeves, 1867-1945. person
associatedWith Lauder, Harry, Sir, 1870-1950. person
associatedWith Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company. corporateBody
associatedWith National Gramophone Company. corporateBody
associatedWith New York Talking Machine Company. corporateBody
associatedWith Radio Corporation of America. RCA Victor Division. corporateBody
associatedWith RCA Manufacturing Company, inc. corporateBody
associatedWith RCA-Victor Company, inc. corporateBody
associatedWith Sarnoff, David, 1891-1971. person
associatedWith Sousa, John Philip, 1854-1932. person
associatedWith Toscanini, Arturo, 1867-1957. person
associatedWith United States Gramophone Company. corporateBody
associatedWith Victor Talking Machine Company. corporateBody
Place Name Admin Code Country
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Color television
Household electronics
Marketing
Phonograph
Radio
Radio
Radio
Radio supplies industry
Safety education, Industrial
Selling
Selling
Sound recording industry
Sound recordings
Television
Television
Television supplies industry
Trademarks
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Active 1897

Active 1980

English,

German,

Spanish; Castilian

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