Table of Contents     PhonoAds Menu   Advergraphs - Phonograph Slogans and Advertising Phrases   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   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   Other January 1919 Phonograph Connections   Nipper   Other Opportunities to Own a Phonograph   PhonoDance   PhonoElegance   The Phonograph - Massani's 'Old Couple'   The Phonograph with a Soul   Phonograph Signs and Billboards   Pre-1900 Ads - A Talking Machine for the Home   1900-1905 Ads - Delight and Celebrated Artists Enter 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"   Dictionary of Phonographia   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     'Phone' & 'Graph' Brands How many 'Phone' & 'Graph' Brands are there?   Phonograph as 'Dining' Entertainer   Phonographia in Movies The Eiffel Tower, an Edison Record and Tomorrowland   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 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 - Phonograph Exhibits (Temporary or non-Museum) Phono-Sightings - Phonographs in non-phonograph specific displays (random sightings WIP)   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 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         PhonoArt Menu ClipArt   i-Phono Logos   Nipper Art   PhonoArt by PhonoFriends   PhonoArt in Collections & Museums   Phono Art - LP Album Covers   PhonoBooks   PhonoDrinks   PhonoElegance   PhonoFood   PhonoLithos - Lithographics for Toy Phonographs   Phono Needle Art   PhonoPostcards   PhonoPosters   Phonographs in Other Ads   Phonograph Floats   PhonoToons   Archie and Friends Assorted Post-1950 Cartoonsr Assorted Pre-1950 Cartoons Comic Book Covers Dennis the Menace Menace of Mechanical Music Peanuts PhonoJokes Political Humor Talking Machine World Cartoons Talking Toy Humor Uncle Josh Stories and Records The Yellow Kid and Pore Lil Mose What day is it? - George & Gracie     Sheet Music with Phono Cover Art   Valentine Cards   Vogue Picture Discs       Friends of the Phonograph Menu   Birthday Calendar of Legacy Friends of the Phonograph   December 6th Edison Phonograph Birthday Parties   Edison: Boyhood and Teen Years (PBS AMERICAN EXPERIENCE video)   Friends of Nipper   Friends of the Phonograph Go GREEN   In Memory of Friends of the Phonograph   Memories of the Phonograph by Friends of the Phonograph   Red Letter Days   RPM Birthdays & Unbirthdays   FOTP Happy Birthday Song - Play this on the Anniversary of your Birth   Birthdays: Legacy Friends of the Phonograph   PhonoAvenue - Phonograph Museums from around the world   Phonograph On-Line Collections   PhonoExhibits - Non-PhonoAvenue Museums, Exhibits and Displays   Temporary Phonograph Related Exhibits   Phono-Sightings - Phonographs on display as part of another display (e.g., 1920's Period Room)   Other Reminders about the Phonograph   Other Phonograph Related Resources for Remembering the Phonograph   Favorites and Top Five Lists by Friends of the Phonograph   FOTP Favorite LP Albums   FOTP Favorite Songs   FOTP Favorite Album Cover   FOTP Favorite Movies       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 Multi-Media Presentations     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.   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.   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               About this Site   Disclaimers   Phonographia.com PhonoArt.com FriendsofthePhonograph.org Factola.com