On this Day Factola
January 1
Happy New Year and the Phonograph
On this Day Factola
January 1
Phonograph connections with January 1 and the New Year have multiple connections in popular culture.
Phonograph dealers could give away calendars each year promoting their store and the phonographs and records they sold. National advertisements could introduce new models or simply welcome the year and wish all of their potential customers a "Happy New Year." Postcards were quite popular and phonographs are pictured in a number of cards from around the world.
"Ring Out the Old, Ring in the New," The Phonogram, p. 276 December 1892 (Read rest of article HERE)
CALENDARS
Sonora 1922 Calendar
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"HAPPY NEW YEAR" CONNECTED ADS
Edison advertisement for December 1904, The Edison Phonograph Monthly
Edison advertisement for January 1905, The Edison Phonograph Monthly
"New Year's Greetings to the Trade", The Talking Machine World, January 1907
The Talking Machine World, January 1916
POSTCARDS
"Happy New Year," Netherlands, circa 1910 (PM-0455A)
"Happy New Year," France, 1922 (PM-1257)
A MULTIMEDIA EXTRA
LISTEN to Auld Lang Syne performed by the Mediaeval Baebes, 2014 and accompanied by Happy New Year phonograph ephemera.
On this Day Factola - January 1
