ADVERGRAPHS
Phonograph slogans and advertising phrases
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Advergraphs (1), Edison Phonograph Monthly, March 1915
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"Plays all Records - Never Scratches" - Americanola
"A Model for Every Purse" - Artophone
"The Tone That Thrills" - Blue Bird Talking Machine Co. 1919
"All Phonographs in One" - Brunswick 1918
"The Nightingale of Phonographs" - Carola
"The Phonograph with a Personality" - Cardinal 1919
"Speaks for Itself" - Cleartone Talking Machine - Lucky 7 Phonograph Company 1919
"Note the Notes" - Columbia and Columbia Records
"Note the Notes" - Columbia Graphophone Co., 1916
"The Stage of the World" - Columbia Grafonola 1916
"Hearing is Believing" - Columbia Grafonola 1912
"Crosley Floating Jewel Tone System" - Crosley 1946
The Master Musician" - Da-ven-ola 1919
"Looking for the Band" - Edison 1901
"The Acme of Realism" - Edison 1901
"The Phonograph with a Soul" Edison 1916
"The Machine that Plays any Record" - Empire Phonograph Company
"Hear that Tone" - Fuehr & Stemmer Phonograph
"The FORD of Phonograph world" - KOCH-O-PHONE
"Leads them all" - Keen-o-phone 1911
"Nothing But Class" - Lampagraph
"Speaks for Itself" - Mag-Ni-Phone
"The Music Without the Blur!" - Magnola 1918
"Built by Tone Specialists" - Magnola 1918
"Magnola's Tone Deflector eliminates the scratch" - Magnola 1918
"The Music Master of Phonographs" - Manograph
"Golden Voice" High-Fidelity System" - Motorola Hi-Fi Tone 1953
"Sings Its Own Praises" - Nightingale Mfg. Co., 1916
"Pathé is Supreme" "Costs No More than the Ordinary Phonograph" - Pathé 1920
"The Golden Throat" Tone System - RCA Victor 1947
"The Silent-Sapphire" pickup - RCA Victor 1947
The Victrola®45 complete automatic phonograph - RCA Victor 1953
"Clear as a Bell" - Sonora
"The Instrument of Quality" - Sonora
"The Highest Class Talking Machine in the World" - Sonora
"My Partner" - Southern California Music Company Trademark
"The Singing Throat of the Starr Phonograph" - Starr Phonograph, 1915
The Sign of the Starr Store - Starr Phonograph 1916
"The Finest Reproducing Phonograph in the World" - Steger
The real "Music-Makers" - Theiryola 1917
"His Master's Voice" - Victor Talking Machine Company
"Victor Supremacy" - Victor Talking Machine Company
"Victrola" - Victor Talking Machine Company
"The Phonograph of Marvelous Tone" - Vitanola 1919
"Plays ALL Records - Natural as Life" - Vitanola 1919
'Super-Fidelis' record changer with Siesta-Matic - "V-M High-Fidelity 1956
"None Better" - Yankee Prince made by O'Neil James Co., Chicago 1904
Cobra Tone Arm - records play via Radionic wave - Zenith 1946
"World's Fastest Record Changer" - Zenith 1946
"Silent-Speed" record changer - Zenith 1946
"Floating Filament" rides lightest on the record - Zenith 1946
"Charming" - Jame I. Lyons, Edison Jobber, Zonophone Distributor, 1908
"On Speaking Terms" - Zon-o-phone, 1908
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"The Singing Throat of the Starr Phonograph," The Talking Machine World, 1915
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The Sonora Phonograph was known by its Sonora Bell logo and the phrase "Clear as a Bell'
Other slogans included "The Instrument of Quality" and "The Highest Class Talking Machine in the World"
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"The Music Without the Blur!"
The Talking Machine World, June 15, 1918
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"The Acme of Realism"
Edison Advertising Form No. 410, circa 1901
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"The Acme of Realism" Edison poster
"His Master's Voice" Victor Talking Machine Co.
RCA magazine advertisement, 1946
"The Victrola - The most famous musical instrument in the world" The Ladies' Home Journal, October 1919
Victrola 1921
Lucky 7 Phonograph Company, The Talking Machine World, May 15, 1919
Empire Talking Machine Company, The Talking Machine World, May 15, 1919
"All Phonographs in One"
Photoplay Magazine, January 1918
Sales Pamphlet courtesy Antiquepianoshop.com
Steger Phonographs are an example of piano company's making phonographs - "If it's a Steger--It's the most valuable piano in the world."
Vitanola - "The Phonograph of Marvelous Tone" - November 8, 1919
The Crosley "Floating Jewel® Tone System" - Crosley Radio-Phonograph, Ads L-R 1946 and 1945
Zenith Record-Playing Radios, 1946
RCA Victor - "The Golden Throat" Tone System with the "Silent Sapphire" pickup - 1947
The "Victrola®"45 complete automatic phonograph - RCA Victor -1953
Pathé is Supreme - Costs No More Than the Ordinary Phonograph 1920
"The Phonograph with a Personality" - Cardinal - The Talking Machine World, 1919 (Courtesy of the Antique Phonograph Society)
"Hearing is Believing" - Columbia Grafonola, Cosmopolitan, 1912
"The Tone That Thrills" - 1920
Blue Bird ad from Buffalo Courier, November 14, 1920 (Courtesy The78rpmrecordspins)
"Note the Notes" - The Talking Machine World, November 1916
The Sign of the Starr Store - The Talking Machine World, November 1916
"My Partner," Talking Machine World, April 15, 1908
"Charming," Talking Machine World, April 15, 1908
Postcard advertisement for Voice of Music Record Player with 4-speed 'Super-Fidelis' record changer with Siesta-Matic.
V-M 1280 Record Player introduced in 1956
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