Table of Contents
Phonograph
Museums, Exhibits and On-Line Collections
PhonoAvenue
- Phonograph and Related Museums around the world
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
Donley's
Wild West Town, Union,
IL
Dougherty
Museum, Longmont,
CO
Edison
Ford Museum, Fort Meyers, FL
Edison
National Historical Park Laboratory Complex
- Virtual Tour
Edison's
Menlo Park Laboratory, the Henry Ford,
Greenfield Village, Michigan
Edison
Museum, Beaumont, TX
Edison
Phonograph Museum, Mount Pleasant, TX
Emil
Berliner and the gramophone -
A virtual exhibition by the Museumsstiftung Post und Telekommunikation.
Grammophonicum
Museum, Bregenz, Austria
The
Grammy's Museum, Los
Angeles, CA
Johnson
Victrola Museum, Dover, NJ
Kanazawa
Phonograph Museum Kanazawa, Ishikawa Japan
MAMI,
Museum of Automated Musical Instruments, Nishinomiya-shi,
Hyogo-ken 662-0088, Japan
Museum
Collection, Moscow, Russia
Musical
Instrument Museum, Phoenix, AZ
Music
Makers Museum, Hillsboro, Ohio
Museum
of Sound Discovery, Saint-Fargeau, France
The
Music House Museum, Traverse City, MI
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, NE
RCA
Studio B, Nashville, TN
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
- Phonograph Displays as Temporary Exhibits
The
Museum of American Heritage -
Palo Alto, CA 2018
The
Phonograph and Its Future - Westminster
Public Library, September 2018
Phonopassion,
Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany 2019
Revolutions
per Minute Exhibit - SFO Museum, Terminal
2 San Francisco Airport, October 2011
Talking
Clocks and the Phonograph - Westminster
Public Library, September 2017
Vinyl
Culture - Temporary Exhibit, Munich, Germany
December 2008
Phono-Sightings
Hearthstone
Historic House Museum, Appleton, WI
Historic
Park Museum, Frisco, CO
Museum
of Making Music (MoMM), Carlsbad, CA
National
Museum of American History - The Smithsonian,
Washington, D.C.
Old
Homestead House Museum, Cripple
Creek, CO
Sentinel
Newspaper Museum, Eureka, NV
Stuhr
Museum of the Prairie Pioneer, Grand Island,
NE
The
Phonograph and its Future 1878 - Edison's Probabilities
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
Record
and Album Cover Factolas
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
Fire
-
Bruce Springsteen's Side B
First
LP Album -
Columbia in 1948
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
Victor Records Released for January 1919
Nipper
in Time after Time Music Video
- Cyndi Lauper
Pure
Prairie League - Dreams of Long Ago
Rally
Playlists - What do they say about the candidates?
RONALD
REAGAN speaks out against SOCIALIZED MEDICINE
Video
Game Soundtracks on Vinyl
Vinyl
Record Resurgence - 2019
Yesterday
Abide
- Poems by Jake Adam York, 2014
The
Adventures of Uncle Jeremiah and Family at the Great Fair
by Charles McCellan
Stevens, 1893
Albumazar,
The Phonogram, February 1892
Another
Adventure of Elsie and the Bunny, Cadbury
Ltd, c.1920's
Art
& Max, by David Wiesner, 2010
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
Century World's Fair Book for Boys and Girls by Tudor Jenks, 1893
The
Christmas of the Phonograph Records, by
Mari Sandoz, 1966
The
Christmas of the Phonograph Records - Newspapers
and the Phonograph in Sheridan County
The
Christmas Secret, by David Delamare,
1991
The
City of Wonders Souvenir of the World's Fair by Mary Catherine
Crowley, 1894
"Columbia
and Victor" - A
Vaudeville Act by Barto & Clark,
1918
Coming,
Aphrodite! by Willa Cather, Youth
and the Bright Medusa, 1920
Le
Courrier Véritable, Parisian pamphlet,
1632
Curious
George Goes to the Hospital by Margret
& H.A. Rey, 1966
Dead
Musicians by Siegfried Sassoon, 1918
The
Devil in the White City by Erik Larson,
2003
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
Hail
to Grandmas by Dana Moseley, 1985
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
Hurdy Gurdy Girl by Richard Carle - A Musical
Comedy in 3 Acts, 1907
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 by William Edmonds,
Readers Digest, 1994
Kitchen
Disco - A Disc Jockey Named Banana and
a Fruit Bowl of Fun, 2017
Looking
Backward 2000-1887 by Edward Bellamy,
1888 (Connections
with theThéâtrophone)
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
"Ma
Pettengill and the Song of Songs" by
Harry Leon Wilson, The Saturday Evening Post, August
1915
McBroom's
Ghost by Sid Fleischman, 1971
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
Miraculous Phonograph Record by William
Saroyan, The Saturday Evening Post, September,1983
The
Music Stops
by E. M. Forster, 1909
My
Life and Hard Times
by James Thurber, 1933
One
of Ours by Willa Cather, 1922
Mr.
Openeer's Christmas - Phonograph
Short Stories, The Phonoscope, November 1899
Needledee
and Needledum
- A Funnigraph
Record by Peter Newell,
1914
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 of Jean Bouvet
by Henry S. Kingwell, The Talking Machine
World, 1915
The
Phonograph and the Graft by O. Henry,
McClure's Magazine, 1903
The
Phonograph on the Side of Justice and Truth
- A French Play, The Talking Machine World,
1907
The
Phonograph in 1614, 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
Point
Counter Point by Aldous Huxley, 1928
The
Record by Ray Bradbury, 1939
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
The
Shallows by Nicholas Carr, 2011
Samantha
at the World's Fair by Marietta Holley,
1893
Scandal
and A Gold Slipper by Willa
Cather, Youth and the Bright Medusa, 1920
The
Song of the Lark by Willa Cather, 1915
Station
Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel,
2014
That
Voice - A Phonograph related romance,
The Red Cloud Chief, June 20,
1878
The
Tables Turned
- A Farce in One Act by John Kendrick
Bangs, 1893
Phantoms
& Phonographs by Ami Diane, 2019
The
Phonograph by Le Trocaderoscope,
1878
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
Adventures of Uncle Jeremiah and Family at the Great Fair
by Charles
McCellan Stevens, 1893
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
What
Happened to Mary, The Ladies' World, 1912-1913
With
the Eyes Shut by Edward Bellamy, October
1889 The Harper's New Monthly Magazine
PhonoLithos
- Lithographics for
Toy Phonographs
PhonoMovie
Ephemera - Stills,
Lobby Cards and Moving Picture Clips with Phonograph related
themes, scenes and machines
PhonoMovies
-
The Phonograph in the Movies List and Links
PhonoMovie
Clips and Cartoons
Betty
Boop 's Crazy Invention - Max Fleischer's
cartoon featuring a "Voice Recorder," (1933)
The
Eiffel Tower, an Edison Record and Tomorrowland (Disney
©1999)
Edison,
The Man starring Spencer Tracy and Rita Johnson.
(©MGM
1940)
Flip
the Frog - "The
Office Boy" cartoon by Ub Iwerks, ©MGM,
Released July 16, 1932
Gents
without Cents, - The Three Stooges (©Columbia
Pictures, 1944)
High
Fidelity -
Movie Trailer (20 sec. excerpt) (©Touchstone
Pictures ©2000)
High
Fidelity - How
to Organize Record Albums Discussion (Touchstone Pictures
©2000)
It's
a Wonderful Life
- Donna Reed smashes "Buffalo Gal" record (1947)
The
Immortal Voice, Bray Studios 1923
Mr.
Peabody's Improbable History - Ludwig
Von Beethoven, cartoon (c. 1960) ©Jay
Ward Productions.
The
Night of the Iguana (©Seven
Arts Productions, 1964)
Pluto's Blue Note (©Walt
Disney, 1947)
Rocky
& Bullwinkle - Mr. Know-It All -
"How to Own a Hi-Fi on a Low Income and IQ" (c.1960)
©Jay Ward Productions.
Rocky
& Bullwinkle - Mr. Know-It All -
"How to Make a Hit Record." (c.1960) ©Jay Ward
Productions.
Songcatcher
(Touchstone ©2000)
The
Stenographer's Friend, (or
What
was Accomplished by an Edison Business Phonograph),
1910 (Courtesy Library of Congress)
Toy
Story 2
- "The Record
Player Scene" (Walt Disney Productions ©1999)
A
Very Long Engagement (Warner Bros. France ©2004)
W.K.L.
Dickson's Kinetophonographic Movie -
Violin Solo Experiment c.1895 (Courtesy Library
of Congress)
Phono
Needle Art
PhonoPostcards
PhonoPosters
Phonographs
in Other Ads
Phonograph
Floats
PhonoToons
Assorted
Post-1950 Cartoons
Assorted
Pre-1950 Cartoons
Betty
Boop
Blondie
and Dagwood
Dennis
the Menace
Donald
Duck
Flip
the Frog
Menace
of Mechanical Music
Peanuts
PhonoJokes
Pluto's
Blue Note
Political
Humor
Rocky
and Bullwinkle
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
Phono-wear
- Apparel, Accessories,
and Sartorial Phonographians
Sheet
Music with Phono Cover Art
Stereoviews
and the Phonograph
Valentine
Cards
Vogue
Picture Discs
Temporary
Phonograph Related Exhibits
Six
Degrees of Separation Stories and Other Musings by DB
"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
Hats
off to the Phonograph! - About the
unpublished book
"Home
on the Range" - Connections and an
"Our Song" - Doug Boilesen 2017
The
John Johnson 5"x7" glass negatives - How
Axel and Doug Boilesen aquired them in 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
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 Boilesen (2000) - Other Stories -
Growing up in 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,
Betty Barr (2000) - Other Stories Growing
up in Elba, NE
Boilesen,
Doug ( 2001) - The Our Song Phenomenon
- "The Red River Rock"
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 (2019)- Other Stories - Growing
up in Lincoln, NE
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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)
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
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.
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.”
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"
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
PhonoMovie
Clips and Cartoons
Miscellaneous
PhonoMultimedia
Anita
Stewart - Hitch Your Wagon to the Stars
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
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
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.
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!")
The
Kinetoscope - An American Experience PBS video
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.
The
Théâtrophone
- Brief history
of the Théâtrophone.
Willa
Cather and William Jennings Bryan
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