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About this Site - Postscript

Birthday Calendar of Legacy Friends of the Phonograph

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 Album Cover

FOTP Favorite Movies

 

FOTP Happy Birthday Song - To be played on the Anniversary of your Birth

Friends of Nipper

Carie

Sasha

Nikki

Friends of the Phonograph Go GREEN

In Memory of Friends of the Phonograph

The Phonograph's Birthday Anniversary Parties

Phonograph Resources, Archives, Societies, and Recordings

Red Letter Days

RPM Birthdays & Unbirthdays

Six Degrees of Separation Stories and Other Musings by DB

"Canned Music - Share a Coke and a Song" - Doug Boilesen 2016

Dearborn or Bust 1967 - The trip to Greenfield Village and Edison's Menlo Park in 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

Hats off to the Phonograph! - About the unpublished book

"Home on the Range" - Connections and an "Our Song" - Doug Boilesen 2017

Public Libraries as Record Lenders - Nutley Public Library 2017 - Doug Boilesen 2020

 

Memories of the Phonograph by Friends of the Phonograph

Barney, F. M. (1912) - Barney's story of Ezra Meeker coming into his store and recording 3 records, Elm Creek, NE

Boilesen, Axel (2000) - The Edison Amberola and The Jolly Coppersmith, Cotesfield, NE

Boilesen, Axel (2009) - Playing an Edison Amberola - "On the Beach Medley" (30 second video)

Boilesen, Betty Barr (2000) - Playing School - My first memory of the Phonograph, Elba, NE

Boilesen, Doug ( 2001) - The Our Song Phenomenon - "The Red River Rock"

Boilesen, Doug and Doug Keister (2012) - How Axel and Doug Boilesen acquired the John Johnson 5"x7" glass negatives in Lincoln, Nebraska in 1965

Boilesen, Doug (2001) - This is Our Tune...Remember? This is Our Tune...Remember?

Boilesen, Doug (2018) - Axel and Betty's First Radio-Phonograph

Boilesen, Doug (2018) - Phonographia and One Perspective on Collecting

Boilesen, James (2018) - "I am a Friend of the Phonograph."

Buffett, Peter * (2010) - Excerpt from Life Is What You Make It about music and an early repair made on the family phonograph

Byron, Eric (2019) - "My Fascination with Early Phonographs and Sound Recordings"

Cicotte, Eddie (1915) - A baseball star would enjoyed listening to phonograph records

Copp, Jim * (2018) - A tribute to one of the most creative storytellers on record written by David Owen in The New Yorker, 2018

Deems, Frank M. (1892) - Remembering the first time I met Edison and saw the phonograph in March 1878.

Flammarion, Camille - March 11, 1878 - "A day to be remembered, for its proceedings were absurd."

Friday, Frances Robinson * (1998) - Avalon Town, the chamber pot and the Victrola

Goldberg, Myla * - 2006 - Hanging on the Gramophone (Spin Magazine)

Gordon, Barbara * (1979) - The Menace of Constant Noise (I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can)

A Grandson's Gift -- A Spotlight -- For His Grandfather's WWII Band - an NPR report by Taylor Haney March 20, 2021

Hathaway, Anne * (2011) - Tribute to Meryl Streep during the 34th Annual Kennedy Centre Honors with gramophone on stage

Hawthorne School (1998) - Second graders learn about the Phonograph, Hawthorne Elementary School, Lincoln, NE

Jenkins, Dan * (2014) - Listening to the Mills Brothers on my mom's RCA Victor phonograph.

Jester, Ron (2025) - "Ron's Wild World"

Keillor, Garrison * (2017) - Memories of bringing my LP to our youth church group so that they could listen to Handel's Messiah

Keister, Douglas (2007) - Field Report on Obsessive Phonograph Collecting Disorder Submitted by Douglas Keister HSD AAC

Keister, Douglas (2020) - "The Machine"

Keister, Kim (2020) - Life, Music, and the Harman-Kardon Incident

Kennedy, Mark * (2021 - Holiday Gift Ideas for the Music Lover 2021 - Mark Kennedy AP Entertainment Writer)

Klein, Ezra and Emily St. John Mandel * - 2022 - Art as Time Batteries, Recorded Sound and R.E.M.

Knightley, Keira and Steve Carell * (2012) - Seeking a Friend for the End of the World, Focus Features

Koenigsberg, Allen (2023) - Table of Contents for Articles by Allen Koenigsberg

Koss, John C. * (2022) - Remembering the man who brought high-quality personal stereophonic sound to generations of listeners.

Loving an Album to Death Makes a Music Fan for Life - Darrin Wolsko* - All Things Considered 2012

McKee, Pete *(2021) - Thoughts about vinyl, record stores, the life of records, DJs, and music used in his 2021 Thud Crackle Pop Digital Remaster Exhibition.

Mendenhall, John * - Memories of Nipper and Character Trademarks

McCartney, Paul * (2020) - Celebrating his Friends of the Phonograph 78 RPM Birthday and "Spinning at 78"

Middleton, Howard Taylor (1907) - The Talking Machine Club

Millar, Jay (2023) - Elvis and our console stereo

Mom and Dad's Record Collection - Stories Our Parents Taught Us - All Things Considered 2012

Moss, Mr. R. Llewellyn (1911) - Remembering the first time he heard an Edison Phonograph, January 1878

Marty, Margaret * (2019) - A Valentine for Victrola - On keepsakes and a found Valentines Day card from Dad to Mom, Courtesy of The Pine City Pioneer

Murphy, Colleen * (2016) - "My first turntable was a life-changer" (from her BBC Sounds "Turntable Tales - Berliner to Gramophone")

Orlando, Andy (2009) - Our phonograph in Dos Palos, California, and other memories

Orlando, Judy (2018) - Memories of growing up, family, music and the phonograph

Parks, Van Dyke * (2020) - Memories of my parents Magnavox and records

Patchett, Ann * (2011) - Dreaming Of 'California' From Far Away - Interviewed by Melissa Block as part of NPR Music's 2011 Winter Series. (Click the 4-minute Listen) (8)

"A Record Find - The Phantom of the Opera - How it led me to a long-lost musical treasure in Paris" By Michael Walsh Smithsonian magazine, February 2008

Rivett, Tom * (2013) - A boy's voice from 1954 lost and found, Lincoln, NE by Cindy Lange-Kubick, The Lincoln Journal-Star

Rogers, Will * (1923) - Timely Topics

"Santa Claus Speaks" by Karen Fishman and Bryan Cornell 2015 - Library of Congress "Now See Hear! The National Audio-Visual Conservation Center Blog - "Santa Claus Tells About his Toy Shop by Gilbert Girard, 1916 (Victor Record 35679) and "Santa Claus Gives Away his Toys" by Gilbert Girard, 1916 (Victor Record 35679)

Satan Comes to Crawley Bottom - As told to Douglas Keister - 2020

Shaw, Wendy (2021) - Shocking memories of the phonograph

Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton in Antarctica 1907-09 - Shackleton's 1907-09 expedition in his own recorded words

Sharp, Maia * (2009) - "Kodachrome" - Interviewed by Melissa Block as part of NPR Music's 2009 Summer Series. (Click the 3-minute Listen) (9)

Steffes, Judy * (2015) - Memories of growing up in West Bend, WI, with the family phonograph in the dining room

Stone, Gary (2021) - "My grandparents radio store inspired my appreciation for phonographs and radios."

Strock, Clancy * (2004) - My Grandfather Strock's Victrola, and more...Reminisce Magazine

Terkel, Studs * (2005) - "Caruso"

Thurber, James * (1933) -  My mother's greatest dread was the Victrola

Von Kampen, Andrea * (2021) - The purchase of Von Kampen's vinyl album by Prince Charles at Hafod Hardware, Rhayader, Wales

Wang, Oliver * (2015) - Baby's First Record (and Record Player) - Cuepoint

Wilson, William* (2023) - Wilson's Edison Concert Phonograph c.1903 at a raffle - Kansas Historical Society

Wittmann Company (1902) - One of the Edison Dealers Suspended by Edison

Young, Loretta* (1936) - Her favorite records were Stephen Foster's melodies.

You Tell on Yourself (2012) By the Friends You Keep and the Records You Play - Author Unknown

 

About the Collection

The Phonograph Exhibit

Axel's Phonograph Story

Betty's Phonograph Story

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 Clubb Song Illustrator - An attachment which projects views to accompany a phonograph record.

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)

Fitness, Flappers and Phonograph Records - PBS History Detectives - Wallace Rogerson's Exercise Records

Geraldine Farrar as Marguerite singing "The Jewel Song" in the 1919 film The World and Its Woman

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

Here Comes Peter Cottontail, Easter and the Phonograph - Phonograph connected Easter postcards accompanied by Gene Autry singing Here Comes Peter Cottontail, 1950

Killarney - A Magic Lantern Presentation accompanied by Miss Marie Narelle singing Killarney, Edison Gold Moulded Record No. 9081 (1905).

The Mickey Mouse Talkie-Jecktor

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)

Party Line - A Customer Service skills training film by Western Electric Company and the Bell Telephone System (in the era of teenagers and the phonograph.)

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.

The Phonograph and Santa - An excerpt from Thomas A. Edison's 1905 moving picture The Night Before Christmas accompanied by Gene Autry's 1953 record Up on the Housetop.

Phonograph Attachments for Multimedia Presentations - Phono-Movies

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 Lumiere 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."

The Victrola at Wanamakers for 1910 Lenten Lecture on Wagner's "Parsifal" using lantern slides and voices of opera stars.

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"

Workers Exit the Lumière Factory in Lyon, France 1895 - A Lumiere brothers film accompanied by Everybody Works But Father sung by Bob Roberts (1905)

 

PhonoMovie Clips and Cartoons - Link

1915 San Francisco March sung by Henry Burr and Albert Campbell, Columbia Records 1914 - YouTube video created by abendstunde49 (2013).

Anita Stewart - Hitch Your Wagon to the Stars

The John Johnson 5"x7" glass negatives - How Axel and Doug Boilesen acquired them in in Lincoln, Nebraska in 1965. - Doug Boilesen and Doug Keister 2012

Making a wax recording (Demonstration by Henry Ford Museum)

The Moment the Guns Fell Silent - WW1 Armistice Interpretation (Sound Installation) by Coda to Coda, 2018

The Sneeze - Filmed on January 7, 1894 (Kinetoscopic Record from Library of Congress and film)

Submarine Attack" A "Talking" Book, The Talking Book Corporation, Emerson Records 1919

Talking Photos "Speak for Themselves" -TBD

Uncle Sam and Kaiser Bill - Motion toy phonograph attachment, National Toy Co., 1919

Violin Solo, W.K.L. Dickson Experiment (c. 1895)

 

Supplemental Connections, References and Annotations

The Bell-Tainter U Graphophone by Shawn ORourke - Bell-Tainter series of phonographs. This video demonstrates a new discovery of a Bell-Tainter U Graphophones produced in 1897.

"The Birth of the Star Spangled Banner," Edison 1914 silent film.

The "Blue Dogs" Album Cover - a metaphorical example of an Album Cover.

Brother Jonathan and Uncle Sam - Canadian Caricatures 1849 - 1878

Disquaires de Paris - Using an interactive

Edison Bust in Library of Laboratory and other busts. (Harper's Weekly, May 1891)

Geraldine Farrar in The Victor Book of Opera published by the Victor Talking Machine Company, 1921

Gertie the Dinosaur - Moving Comics - TBD

Glasgow Main Street - Glasgow shops on a cobbled street circa 1930's are featured in the time-travel exhibit at Riverside Museum, Glasgow, Scotland (with no phonographs).

Helen Fulton - Leading Actress in "Voice of the Violin," 1915 Edison silent movie

High School Graduation 2023 - An example of how easily memories are recorded in the 21st century.

Hotpoint Electric Kitchen Appliance ads (Edison General Electric Appliance Co.)

"The Ideal Amanuensis" Circular Letter from North American Phonograph Co. to Businesses, September 18, 1893

"If It Could Have Been. A Retrospective," by Col. Robert G. Ingersoll and the Garden of Eden. The Phonogram, January 1, 1891.

"I Forgot My Phone" by Charlene deGuzman, 2013 (a.k.a., "The Family Scrapbook of the 21st Century!")

"Jingle Bells" - The first Christmas record.

The Kinetoscope - An American Experience PBS video

For an astounding website featuring every (real) variation of American Mickey Mouse radios, and Mickey Mouse cameras and projectors of every kind, visit THE MEL BIRNKRANT COLLECTION SOUND & LIGHT.

Little Nemo - Moving Comics - TBD

Phonogram Images on Paper, 1250-1950 by Patrick Feaster - Presentation given by Patrick Feaster at the annual conference of the Association for Recorded Sound Collections in Los Angeles, May 12, 2011.

Pop Culture Madness - A personal website of Lists - Tops 100's, Top 10's, Number One Hits and many related lists by Joe Hummel III.

The Theatrophone - Brief history of the Theatrophone.

Uncle Sam and Brother Jonathan Illustrations - Frank Leslie's, Harper's Weekly and other newspapers, 1875 - 1878

"Uncle Sam Illustrations - Puck and Judge, 1880 - 1900" for additional illustrations in popular culture newspapers.

Willa Cather: The Road Is All - PBS American Master's segment from the film which explored Cather's role as the managing editor of McClure''s magazine.

Willa Cather and William Jennings Bryan

Yesterday's Mainstreet - Chicago 1910 - Museum of Science and Industry

 

 

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