Table of Contents     PhonoAds Menu   Advergraphs - Phonograph Slogans, Phrases and Logos   An Age of Wonders - Wonders, Wizards and Alladin's Lamp   Apple Launches Apple Music, June 2015 - The History of Sound - 127 Years of Recorded Music   "Artists Inside the Horn"   At Home or at the Opera   "Both are...?" The 1914 Victor Advertising Campaign   Carola - The Nightingale of Phonographs   Cather's Opera Prototypes and the Phonograph - Overview   Ernestine Schumann-Heink - Recording Artist and Willa Cather Opera Prototype Geraldine Farrar - Recording Artist and Willa Cather Opera Prototype Lillian Nordica - Recording Artist and Willa Cather Opera Prototype Lucrezia Bori - Recording Artist and Willa Cather Opera Prototype Mary Garden - Recording Artist and Willa Cather Opera Prototype Olive Fremstad - Recording Artist and Willa Cather Opera Prototype   Clear as a Bell - The Sonora Phonograph   The Columbia Twentieth Century Graphophone   Double Service from Edison's Phonograph - Amusement and Language Study   Edison Tone Tests 1915-1925   Happy Homes - Something for Everyone   Hear It Anywhere   "Looking for the Band"   New Victor Records for January 1919   Nipper   Other Opportunities to Own a Phonograph   PhonoDance   PhonoElegance   The Phonograph - Massani's 'Old Couple'   Phonograph Related Ads in January 1919 TMW   Phonograph Signs and Billboards   The Phonograph with a Soul   Pre-1900 Ads - A Talking Machine for the Home   1900-1905 Ads - Delight and Celebrated Artists Enter the Home   1906-1910 Ads - Welcome the Phonograph into the Home   Shopping for a Phonograph   The Stage of the World - The Best Seat in the House. Forever. ©   The "Talkers" Sentimental Side - Appealing to the customer's 'human' side   Victor Book of the Opera   Victor Talking Machine Co. Ads - External Link   "Which is which?" The 1908 Victor Advertising Campaign     Factolas Menu Autostops - "Don't get up"   "Bottles it up for future use"   Connections and the Phonograph Industry - Doug Boilesen 2020   Cylinder records referenced in The Christmas of the Phonograph Records by Mari Sandoz   Dictionary of Phonographia   Dogs and the Phonograph   Edison: From the Telephone and Telegraph Comes the Phongraph - An AMERICAN EXPERIENCE PBS video   Edison: Invention in Late 19th-Century America - An AMERICAN EXPERIENCE PBS video   "Gone is the heyday of the vinyl record" - The Soundtrack to Your Life, With a Stream of Discoveries - 2012 New York Times   Hello or Ahoy? - "Halloo!" "Hello" and Edison   "Like a Broken Record"- Sounds Like, Plays Like...   Monopoly and the Gramophone   Newspapers named The Phonograph in honor of T.A. Edison   '-Ola' Talking Machine Brands How many '-ola' Brands are there?   On this Day Phonograph Calendar Birthdays: Legacy Friends of the Phonograph Phonographia Red-Letter Days RPM Birthdays & Unbirthdays     'Phon' & 'Graph' Brands How many 'Phon' & 'Graph' Brands are there?   Phonograph as 'Dining' Entertainer       Phonograph Museums, Exhibits and On-Line Collections PhonoAvenue - Phonograph and Related Museums around the world Bethel Woods Center for the Arts - Woodstock Music Festival Museum, Bethel, NY The Charles H. Templeton Sr. Music Museum, Mississippi State University Library, MS Charmsori Gramophone Museum and Edison Science Museum, Gangneung, South Korea Deutsches Phonomuseum, Baden-Württemberg, Germany Dougherty Museum, Longmont, CO Edison Ford Museum, Fort Meyers, Florida Edison's Menlo Park Laboratory, the Henry Ford, Greenfield Village, Michigan Edison Museum, Beaumont, TX Edison Phonograph Museum, Mount Pleasant, TX Grammophonicum Museum, Bregenz, Austria The Grammy's Museum, Los Angeles, CA Johnson Victrola Museum, Dover, New Jersey Kanazawa Phonograph Museum Kanazawa, Ishikawa Japan MAMI, Museum of Automated Musical Instruments, Nishinomiya-shi, Hyogo-ken 662-0088, Japan Museum Collection, Moscow, Russia Museum of Sound Discovery, Saint-Fargeau, France The Music House Museum, Traverse City, Michigan National Museum of African American Music, Nashville, TN Norwegian Museum of Science, Technology and Medicine, Norsk Teknisk Museum, Oslo Paris Phono Museum, Paris, France Pioneer Village, Minden, Nebraska The Riverdale Science Museum, Riverdale, USA The Sanfilippo "Place de la Musique", Barrington, IL Smithsonian National Museum of American History - Dolby Gateway to American Culture, Washington, D.C. The Stagecoach Inn Museum, Newbury Park, CA Thomas Edison Butchertown House, Louisville, KY   Phonograph On-Line Collections PhonoExhibits - Temporary Phonograph Exhibits The Legacy Exhibit - Lincoln, Nebraska The Phonograph and Its Future - Westminster Public Library, September 2018 Talking Clocks and the Phonograph - Westminster Public Library, December 2017 Vinyl Culture - Temporary Exhibit, Munich, Germany December 2008 Revolutions per Minute Exhibit - SFO Museum, Terminal 2 San Francisco Airport, October 2011   Phono-Sightings - Phonographs in non-phonograph specific displays (random sightings WIP) Basel Toy World Museum, Basel, CH Historic Park Museum, Frisco, CO Museum of Making Music (MoMM), Carlsbad, CA Sentinel Newspaper Museum, Eureka, NV   Teddy Bears and the Phonograph   The Phonograph and its Future 1878 - Edison's Probabilities   Letter Writing Dictation Books Educational Purposes Music Family Record Phonographic Books Musical-Boxes Toys Clocks Advertising, etc Speech and other Utterances Perfect the telephone and revolutionize present systems of telegraphy     The Phonograph - The Evolution of a Revolution   The Phonograph Lives! - Voyager   Tut-mania and the Phonograph - King Tut and the Phonograph circa 1923   PhonoLyrics   The Promotion of Opera in The Immortal Voice, Bray Studios 1923   Record and Album Cover Factolas   The 150 Greatest Albums Made By Women - NPR List 2017 - Turning the Tables The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time by ROLLING STONE 2020 Bob Dylan Bringing It All Back Home Comedy on Records - Comedy recordings from cylinder to vinyl Cut Yourself a Piece of Cake - 1923 Comedy Song Hit Furthest Distance from Earth a Record Played on a Turntable The Hokey-Pokey The "Hound Dog" Original Recording The Moody Blues' The Present album cover The Most Romantic Cylinder Recording made in the 21st Century? NASA Beams Song "Across The Universe" Into Deep Space New (twenty-three) Victor Records Released for January 1919 Nipper in Time after Time Music Video - Cyndi Lauper Pure Prairie League - Dreams of Long Ago RONALD REAGAN speaks out against SOCIALIZED MEDICINE Bruce Springsteen's Fire - Side B Video Game Soundtracks on Vinyl Vinyl Record Resurgence Factola - 2019 What do Rally Playlists Say About the Candidates? Yesterday   Record Listening Booths   Regina Company, Phonographs and the What-if?   Sewing Machines and the Phonograph   What Tree Rings Sound Like Played on a Record Player   Why December 6th? Celebrating the Birthday of the Phonograph     PhonoArt Menu ClipArt   FOTP Favorite LP Album Covers   i-Phono Logos   Nipper Art   Phonograph Album Covers   PhonoArt by PhonoFriends   PhonoArt in Collections & Museums   PhonoDrinks   PhonoFood   The Phonograph in the Movies The Eiffel Tower, an Edison Record and Tomorrowland     PhonoLiterature   Abide - Poems by Jake Adam York, 2014 Another Adventure of Elsie and the Bunny, Cadbury Ltd, c.1920's BLACK HOLE BLUES and Other Songs from Outer Space by Janna Levin, 2016 The Boys' Own Phonograph by John Lewees, St. Nicholas, January 1880 The Castle of the Carpathians by Jules Verne, 1893 The Christmas of the Phonograph Records, by Mari Sandoz, 1966 The Christmas Secret, by David Delamare, 1991 Le Courrier Véritable, Parisian pamphlet, 1632 Curious George Goes to the Hospital by Margret & H.A. Rey, 1966 Dead Musicians by Siegfried Sassoon, 1918 Gargantua and his son Pantagruel How among the frozen words Pantagruel found some odd ones. by Francois Rabelais, 1653 The Girl He Left Behind Him by Howard Taylor, The Talking Machine World, 1906 Good Night Sesame Street - Fisher-Price and Sesame Street, 1979 Hauntiques by Thomas Kingsley Troupe, 2016 Hey Kid, Want to Buy a Bridge? - The Time Warp Trio by Jon Scieszka, 2002 How We Gave a Phonograph Party - The Phonoscope, December 1899 The Image by Daniel J. Boorstin, 1962 The Jukebox Man by Jacqueline K. Ogburn, 1998 Just Imagine by Pippa Goodhart, 2012 Keeping Time by Tim Dooley, 2008 Kids Big Book of Time - Readers Digest, by William Edmonds, 1994 Lost in the Grooves by Kim Cooper and David Smay, 2005 Love and Other Consolation Prizes by Jamie Ford, 2017 Love and the Phonograph - The Phonoscope, March 1899 The Magic of Melody by Edgar March, Maclean's Magazine, August 15, 1933 Millie and the GEM Phonograph - A Love Story - The Phonogram June 1900 The Music Stops by E. M. Forster, 1909 Needledee and Needledum - A Funnigraph Record by Peter Newell, 1914 Mr. Openeer's Christmas - Phonograph Short Stories - The Phonoscope, November 1899 No Escape From Black Holes? Stephen Hawking Points to a Possible Exit by Dennis Overbye, The New York Times, 2016 The Patchwork Girl of Oz, by L. Frank Baum, 1913 The Phonograph and the Graft by O. Henry, McClure's Magazine, 1903 The Phonograph in 1614 by The Phonogram, 1892 The Phonograph in Country Towns by a Local Phonograph Agent, The Phonogram, 1891 The Phonograph Girls and Columbia's Twentieth Century Phonograph, The Talking Machine World, 1906 The Phonograph Witness. A Drama in Five Acts by George W. Hill, 1883 Pleasures of Music by Jacques Barzun, 1952 The Revenge of Analog - Real Things and Why They Matter by David Sax, 2016 The Rocket Book, by Peter Newell, 1912 Round the Fire: VIII The Story of the Japanned Box by A. Conan Doyle, 1899 That Voice - A Phonograph related romance, The Red Cloud Chief, June 20, 1878 The Shallows by Nicholas Carr, 2011 The Tables Turned - A Farce in One Act by John Kendrick Bangs, 1893 Tea Rex by Molly Idle, 2013 The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger, 2003 The Tribulations of a Chinaman, by Jules Verne, 1879 The Valentines' Victrola by Harriet Lummis Smith, 1919 A Voyage to the Moon by Cyrano de Bergerac, 1899 Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories and other disasters, by Jean Shepherd, 1971 The Waste Land, by T.S. Eliot, lines 253-256 with Eliot's note for line 253 referencing V. Goldsmith, the song in The Vicar of Wakefield. Welcome to Samantha's World 1904 - The American Girls Collection American Girl™, 1999 With the Eyes Shut by Edward Bellamy, October 1889 The Harper's New Monthly Magazine   PhonoLithos - Lithographics for Toy Phonographs   Phono Needle Art   PhonoPostcards   PhonoPosters   Phonographs in Other Ads   Phonograph Floats   PhonoToons   Archie and Friends Assorted Post-1950 Cartoons Assorted Pre-1950 Cartoons Blondie and Dagwood Comic Book Covers Dennis the Menace Menace of Mechanical Music Peanuts PhonoJokes Political Humor Talking Machine World Cartoons Talking Toy Humor Tom and Jerry Uncle Josh Stories and Records The Yellow Kid and Pore Lil Mose What day is it? - George & Gracie     Sheet Music with Phono Cover Art   Stereoviews and the Phonograph   Valentine Cards   Vogue Picture Discs       Friends of the Phonograph Menu   About this Site   About this Site - Postscript   Birthday Calendar of Legacy Friends of the Phonograph   December 6th Edison Phonograph Birthday Parties   Edison: Boyhood and Teen Years (PBS AMERICAN EXPERIENCE video)   Favorites and Top Five Lists by Friends of the Phonograph   FOTP Favorite LP Albums   FOTP Favorite Songs   FOTP Favorite Album Cover   FOTP Favorite Movies   FOTP Top Five by Topics     FOTP Happy Birthday Song - Play this on the Anniversary of your Birth   Friends of Nipper   Friends of the Phonograph Go GREEN   In Memory of Friends of the Phonograph   Memories of the Phonograph - Stories by Friends of the Phonograph   PhonoAvenue - Phonograph Museums from around the world   PhonoExhibits and Displays - Temporary   Phonograph Related Resources for Remembering the Phonograph   Phonograph On-Line Collections   Phono-Sightings - Phonographs on display as part of another display (e.g., 1920's Period Room)   Red Letter Days   RPM Birthdays & Unbirthdays   Temporary Phonograph Related Exhibits   Six Degrees of Separation Stories and Musings by DB   About Phonographia.com - Postscript - Doug Boilesen 2020 "Canned Music - Share a Coke and a Song" - Doug Boilesen 2016 DB's Musing - "Pause and Step-back" September 2, 2021 - Popular Culture Connections and Politics Dearborn or Bust 1967 - The trip to Greenfield Village and Edison's Menlo Park via my 1917 Model T - Doug Boilesen - 2015 Don't Judge a Book by its Cover...Unless is has a Phonograph on it - Discovering Abide by Jake Adam York - Doug Boilesen 2019 "Home on the Range" - Connections and an "Our Song" - Doug Boilesen 2017 How Axel and Doug Boilesen acquired the John Johnson 5”x 7” glass negatives in Lincoln, Nebraska in 1965. - Doug Boilesen and Doug Keister 2012 Phonographia and One Perspective on Collecting - Doug Boilesen 2018 Public Libraries as Record Lenders - Nutley Public Library 2017 - Doug Boilesen 2020             The Axel and Betty Boilesen Legacy Exhibit About the Legacy Collection   The Legacy Exhibit   Axel's Phonograph Story   Betty's Phonograph Story   Axel's Other Stories - Growing up in Cotesfield   Betty's Other Stories - Growing up in Elba   Phonographia Multimedia Presentations   Adventures of a Cyclist - A Magic Lantern Presentation accompanied by The Edison Concert Band playing Ye Ancients March, Edison Gold Moulded Record No. 8946 (1905)   Adventures of Mr. Snapshot - A Magic Lantern Presentation accompanied by The Edison Military Band performing American Students’ Waltzes, Edison Record No. 8740 (1904)   America - A Magic Lantern Presentation with artwork by Joseph Boggs Beale and accompanied by The Indestructible Military Band performing The Star Spangled Banner and America, Indestructible Record No. 3943 (1908)   Annie's Treat - A Magic Lantern Presentation accompanied by an 1896 Regina music box playing The Nightingale Song.   Are Mr. and Mrs. Snapshot at Home? - A Magic Lantern Presentation accompanied by brown wax cylinder recording of Nanon Waltz, circa 1891-1893.   Break the News to Mother - A Magic Lantern Presentation accompanied by J.W. Myers singing Break the News to Mother, Columbia Records.   A Christmas Carol - A Magic Lantern Presentation using Newton & Co. Slides (1884) of Charles Dicken's story accompanied by “The Carol Singers” performing "God rest you, merry gentlemen" on Edison Blue Amberol Record No. 3346 (1917)   A Christmas Carol - A dramatized presentation featuring illustrations from print editions (1844–1915) and the recording of “The Awakening of Scrooge” on Edison Amberol Record No. 12378 (1911) performed by Bransby Williams as Ebenezer Scrooge who awakens on Christmas Day.   The Cyclists' Elopement - A Magic Lantern Presentation illustrated by Bamforth & Co., (1897) accompanied by Peaceful Henry played by The Edison Concert Band, Edison Gold Moulded Record No. 8562 (1903) Peaceful Henry - Edison Record No. 8562 Release Notes:The Edison Phonograph Monthly 1903; Sheet Music, Dealer Programme Edison: From the Telephone and Telegraph Comes the Phonograph (An AMERICAN EXPERIENCE PBS video)   Edison: Invention in Late 19th-Century America (An AMERICAN EXPERIENCE PBS video)   Happy Birthday Song for Friends of the Phonograph - a.k.a. Your Birth Anniversary Song   Happy New Year - Auld Lang Syne - Phonograph ephemera accompanied by Auld Lang Syne performed by the Mediaval Baebes, 2014   Killarney - A Magic Lantern Presentation accompanied by Miss Marie Narelle singing Killarney, Edison Gold Moulded Record No. 9081 (1905). Killarney No. 9081 - The Edison Phonograph Monthly Release Notes, Humourous Incident and Miss Marie Narelle   Nursery Rhymes - A Magic Lantern Presentation Illustrated by W. Butcher & Sons, London (ca. 1910) accompanied by Thousand-and-One Nights Waltz played by the Edison Concert Band (1908)   The Phonograph - An American Experience PBS video - This excerpt from PBS's 2015 “Edison” focuses on Edison's December 7, 1877 demonstration of his phonograph at the New York City offices of “Scientific American” and the fame it brought him.   Ring Out the Bells for Christmas - Phonograph ephemera accompanied by Ring Out the Bells for Christmas, Edison Record No. 9806 (1907)   The Song of Mr. Phonograph - 2016 Version by ©Nick Jester and ©2020 Phonographia   Snowball Fight in Lyon, France 1897 - A Lumière brothers film accompanied by Snow Queen performed by the Indestructible Military Band (1909)   Uncle Josh and the Lightning Rod Agent - Uncle Josh's encounter with a Lightning Rod Agent from his 1905 book Uncle Josh's Punkin Centre Stories by Cal Stewart, "The Talking Machine Story Teller.   Uncle Josh on a Bicycle - Uncle Josh's rides a bicycle for the first time from his 1905 book Uncle Josh's Punkin Centre Stories by Cal Stewart, "The Talking Machine Story Teller."   W.K.L. Dickson Greets Friends of the Phonograph - William Dickson moving hat from one hand to another, Edison Studio, May 1891 Courtesy Library of Congress accompanied by Edison Record "Blue Ribbon March"   W.K.L. Dickson's Kinetophonographic Movie - combined sound and film in 1895 (Courtesy Library of Congress)   Workers Exit the Lumière Factory in Lyon, France 1895 - A Lumière brothers film accompanied by Everybody Works But Father sung by Bob Roberts (1905)   The Phonogram, August 1902           Navigating this Site   About this Site   Disclaimers   Phonographia.com PhonoArt.com FriendsofthePhonograph.org Factola.com