Table of Contents
Advergraphs - Phonograph Slogans, Phrases and Logos
An Age of Wonders - Wonders, Wizards and Aladdin's Lamp
Albert Spalding in the United States Aviation Corp
Apple Launches Apple Music, June 2015 - The History of Sound - 127 Years of Recorded Music
"Both are...?" The 1914 Victor Advertising Campaign
The Brownies and the Phonograph
Carola - The Nightingale of Phonographs
Cather's Prototypes Who Were Recording Artists
Ernestine Schumann-Heink - Recording Artist and Willa Cather Prototype
Geraldine Farrar - Recording Artist and Willa Cather Prototype
Lillian Nordica - Recording Artist and Willa Cather Prototype
Lucrezia Bori - Recording Artist and Willa Cather Prototype
Mary Garden - Recording Artist and Willa Cather Prototype
Olive Fremstad - Recording Artist and Willa Cather Prototype
Clear as a Bell - The Sonora Phonograph
The Columbia Twentieth Century Graphophone
Double Service from Edison's Phonograph - Amusement and Language Study
Edison's Messages to Edison Dealers 1917-1918
Geraldine Farrar's records and illustrations in "The Victrola Book of the Opera" (1921)
Happy Homes - Something for Everyone
New Victor Records for January 1919
Nipper, Dogs and the Phonograph
Other Opportunities to Own a Phonograph
Phonograph Related Ads in January 1919 TMW
Phonograph Signs and Billboards
Pre-1900 Ads - A Talking Machine for the Home
1900-1905 Ads - Delight and Music of the World
1905-1910 Ads - Welcome the Phonograph into the Home
1910-1915 Ads - The Phonograph in the Early Teens
1915-1920 Ads - The Phonograph in the Late Teens
1920-1930 Ads - The Phonograph in the Twenties
1930-1940 Ads - The Phonograph in the Thirties
1940-1945 Ads - The Phonograph in the Early Forties
1945-1950 Ads - The Phonograph in the Late Forties
Recordrama Albums - RCA Victor
Santa, Christmas and the 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 Talking Machine Co. Ads - External Link
Visions of Artists in the Home
"Which is which?" The 1908 Victor Advertising Campaign
Winter Evenings - Never Dull with a Phonograph
Autostops - "Don't get up"
"Bottles it up for future use"
Connections and the Phonograph Industry - Doug Boilesen 2020
Courtships, Proposals and the Phonograph - Doug Boilesen 2022
Cylinder records referenced in The Christmas of the Phonograph Records by Mari Sandoz
December 6 and 25 - Santa, Christmas and the Phonograph
Nipper, 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
Electrical Association Convention, 1892 - Phonographs on display
Exposition Universelle of 1889 and the Phonograph
"Gone is the heyday of the vinyl record" - The Soundtrack to Your Life, With a Stream of Discoveries - 2012 New York Times
"Hello" for the Telephone Postcards
Hello or Ahoy? - "Halloo!" "Hello" and Edison
How We Learn About the Phonograph with Serendipitous Connections
"Like a Broken Record"- Sounds Like, Plays Like...
Newspapers named The Phonograph in honor of T.A. Edison
How many '-ola' Brands are there?On this Day Phonograph Calendar
How many 'Phone' & 'Graph' Brands are there?
Phonograph as 'Dining' Entertainer
Telephone and "Hello" Sheet Music
Telephone Call Related Records
Thanksgiving and the Phonograph
What is an Opera? - The Victrola Book of the Opera, 1921
World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 and the Edison Electric Tower
World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 and The Electricity Building
World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 and the Kinetograph
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'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
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 Legacy Exhibit - Lincoln, NE 2005The 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, December 2017
Vinyl Culture - Temporary Exhibit, Munich, Germany December 2008
Phono-Sightings - Phonographs as part of other displays
Basel Toy World Museum, Basel, CH
Centennial Village Museum, Greeley, CO
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.
Sentinel Newspaper Museum, Eureka, NV
Stuhr Museum of the Prairie Pioneer, Grand Island, NE
Summary List of Phonographia Factolas
Teddy Bears and the Phonograph
The Phonograph and its Future 1878 - Edison's Probabilities
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 - A Discography with Phonograph related references
The Promotion of Opera in The Immortal Voice, Bray Studios 1923 with Rosa Ponselle recordings
Record and Album Cover Factolas
The 150 Greatest Albums Made By Women - NPR List 2017 - Turning the TablesThe 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 "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?
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
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 - Readers Digest by William Edmonds, 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
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 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
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
Talking Machine World Cartoons
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
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 Happy Birthday Song - Play this on the Anniversary of your Birth
Friends of the Phonograph Go GREEN
In Memory of Friends of the Phonograph
PhonoAvenue - Phonograph Museums from around the world
PhonoExhibits and Displays - Temporary
The Phonograph's Birthday Anniversary Parties
Phonograph Related Resources, Societies, Archives, Libraries
Phonograph On-Line Collections
Phono-Sightings - Phonographs on display as part of another display (e.g., 1920's Period Room)
ANY Excuse Celebration - Tea for Two and 2:22 02-22-2022
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
"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
Memories of the Phonograph - Stories 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" (a 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 - How The Phantom of the Opera 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
You Tell on Yourself By the Friends You Keep and the Records You Play - 2012 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"
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)
Miscellaneous PhonoMultimedia
Betty Boop 's Crazy Invention - Max Fleischer's cartoon featuring a "Voice Recorder"
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"
Uncle Sam and Kaiser Bill - Motion toy phonograph attachment, National Toy Co., 1919
Supplemental Connections, References and Annotations
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
Willa Cather and William Jennings Bryan
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