Media History Digital Library Launches Lantern

Thanks to the folks at the Media History Digital Library (MHDL), media historians have fulltext online access to classic media periodicals and books in the public domain. Lantern is their newly launched search platform for this impressive collection containing digital scans of over 800,000 pages (and growing), from 1904 to 1963. The project is made possible by owners of the materials who loan them for scanning and donations to support the cost of scanning.

Materials in the MDHL, available for free viewing and free download, include:

▽  Business Screen (1938-1973)

▽  The Film Daily (1918-1948)

▽  International Photographer (1929-1941)

▽  Journal of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers (1916-1949)

▽  Journal of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (1950-1954)

▽  The Educational Screen (1922-1962)

▽  Motion Picture [Magazine] (1914-1941)

▽  Moving Picture World (1907-1919)

▽  Photoplay (1914-1940)

▽  Radio Age: Research, Manufacturing, Communications, Broadcasting, Television (1942-1957)

▽  Radio Broadcast (1922-1930)

▽  Sponsor (1946-1964)

▽  Talking Machine World (1906-1928)

▽  Variety (1905-1926)

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