This gallery features advertisements that contain phonographs but the ads are not selling phonographs. Click on any image to view a larger image.
| Inventions in Guinness Time | ||
| Source: Punch Magazine, 1956 | ||
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Location: Private collection, 11 1/2" x 8 1/2" |
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Description From the Inventions in Guinness Time series, this one is numbered number 5 and carries the Guinness ad number G.E 2572.B
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| Forbidden Fruit Liqueor | ||
| Source: Magazine ad, c1945 | ||
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2" x 12" |
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Description This is a close-up of the top section of a magazine advertisement promoting Forbidden Fruit Liqeuor, an aristocratic drink that was said to be "The Toast of the Town." This ad uses the phonograph to symbolize a previous age, selling the point that this product was "lauded then as it is today", a drink that continues to be "Incomparable as a gift of the Gods..." Using the phonograph as a way to reference a previous age and the good life shows the iconic status of the phonograph. The open horn phonograph represents an important timeline marker and, like the advertisement, could be said to be something that could be "delightful, before dinner -- after dinner -- anytime." Click on the ad to view the entire Forbidden Fruit Liqeuor advertisement. |
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| Heavenly Harmony | ||
| Source: Magazine ad for Milky Way, 1955 | ||
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Location: Private collection, 11" x 14" |
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| Almost everyone appreciates the best... | ||
| Source: Magazine ad for Coca Cola, 1955 | ||
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11" x 14" |
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| Cadbury's Cocoa - A Record of Success | ||
| Source: TBD | ||
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| Now You're Talking! | ||
| Source: Magazine ad for Buster Brown Shoes, 1910 | ||
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Location: Private collection, 5" x 7" |
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| Salem Spirit | ||
| Source: Magazine ad for Salem Cigarettes, 1954 | ||
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Location: Private collection, 11" x 14" |
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| Pacific Sheets | ||
| Source: Magazine ad for Pacific Sheets, 1945 | ||
| Artist: John Gannam | ||
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Location: Private collection, 13.75" x 10.25" |
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| For young America at play.... | ||
| Source: Magazine ad for Coca Cola, 1953 | ||
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Location: Private collection, 11" x 14" |
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| Enjoying Life | ||
| Source: Magazine ad for Miller High Life, 1948 | ||
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Location: Private collection, 11" x 14" |
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| Model No. 803 | ||
| Model No. 803 Tailors Sample Book | ||
| Location: Private collection, 14" x 20" | ||
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| American Firsts | ||
| Source: Magazine ad for Nesbitts, c1954 | ||
| 4" x 12" | ||
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| Stay Sweet | ||
| Source: Magazine ad for Listerine, 1954 | ||
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11" x 14" |
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| EBAY Auction Game | ||
| Source: Hasbro, Box for game, 2001 | ||
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Location: Private collection, 9" x 9" |
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| Fleishman's Yeast Card | ||
| Source: Tradecard, c1910 | ||
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Location: Private collection, 4" x 6" |
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| Great Plains Software | ||
| Source: Magazine ad, c1988 | ||
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5" x 8" |
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| Nu Maid Breadfood Spread | ||
| Source:Postcard, c1960 | ||
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Location: Private collection, curteich linen, 4" x 6" |
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| Suchard Chocolat Swiss | ||
| Source:Tradecard, c1905 | ||
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Location: Private collection, 4" x 6" |
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| Famous Inventions - Edison's First Phonograph | ||
| Source:Will's Cigarettes Tradecard, c1915 | ||
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Location: Private collection, 2" x 4" |
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| Mutt and Jeff "Take That Noise Outside" | ||
| Artist: "Bud Fisher | ||
| Source:Sweet Caporal Cigarettes Tradecard, c1911 | ||
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Location: Private collection, 1 3/4" x 3 1/2" |
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This card, numbered 11, is one of over 250 designs used by the Sweet Caporal Cigarettes Company as a promotional insert in their cigarette packages. This series was described as "original pictures illustrating popular phrases" The music coming from the gramophone is "Everybody's Doing It, a song written by Irving Berlin in 1911 for the stage musical Alexander's Ragtime Band ("Everybody's Doing It" sung and danced by Dixie Dunbar and Wally Vernon).
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| Stollwerck Chocolates Tradecard | ||
| Artist: Unknown, c1900 | ||
| Media: Chromolithograph | ||
| Location: Private collection, 2" x 4 1/2" | ||
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Chromolithograph tradecard featuring Thomas A. Edison, made by the German Company “Stollwerck” which was involved in the chocolate industry. The round medallion of Edison is pictured over the phonograph,a factory, an electric light bulb, and the American eagle. On the back of the card was a summary (in German) of Edison's inventions. This card (about 2 ‘’ x 4 1/2 ‘’ ) comes from the early 1900’s. Tradecards like this one were distributed as premiums in packages of chocolate and other food products | |
| Liebig Meat Extract Tradecard | ||
| Artist: Unknown, c1900 | ||
| Media: Chromolithograph | ||
| Location: Private collection, 4 1/2" x 2" | ||
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Timothy C. Fabrizio & George F. Paul “Antique Phonograph Accessories & Contraptions” by Shiffer Publishing describe tradecards like this one as follows: These delightful lithographed cards were among the various subjects used as premiums for turn of the twentieth century European products such as Liebig meat extract. The public was encouraged to collect entire series (“famous inventors” ...) by frequent patronage of the product. Of particular interest is the card which depicts an artist’s impression of acoustic recording in its early stage of development. Banks of phonographs simultaneously recorded a performance, a process that had to be repeated in order to obtain a cache of first-generation cylinders from which multiple copies could be duplicated. | |
| Edison in Paris Tradecard | ||
| Artist: Unknown, c1900 | ||
| Media: Chromolithograph | ||
| Location: Private collection, 3" x 4 1/4" | ||
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Chromolithograph of Edison made by the French Company “C. Beriot” in Lille (France) which was involved in chicorey industry. Edison is featured in a round medallion over a scene of public demonstration of the phonograph. On the back of the card (in French) is a biography of Edison and a summary of some of Edison's inventions. |
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| Carsky Buket | ||
| Artist: Unknown, c1928 | ||
| Media: Paper, Phonograph Tradecard | ||
| Location: Private collection | ||
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| Cadbury's Cocoa | ||
| Artist: Unknown, c1914 | ||
| Media: Paper, Phonograph Tradecard | ||
| Location: Private collection | ||
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This card was given as a free premium in the United Kingdom by Cadbury Bros. Ltd (chocolate) in 1914. This is card number 23 from a set of 25 cards entitled "Copyright (Inventors) Series". The front of the card shows a photo-style artist drawn representation of Thomas Alva Edison with the Phonograph 'inset' below. The back of the card has biographical descriptive text.
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| Sound Advice | ||
| Source:Logo for Sound Advice on side of trailer, Greenville, NC, 2002 | ||
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18" x 40" |
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1971, Newspaper, St. Paul, NE, originally called "The Phonograph" until it merged with another Howard County newspaper, The Herald. | |
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1990 Newspaper, St. Paul, NE | |
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2007 Newspaper banner for Wisconsin newspaper. | |
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1976 September (Monthly Issue) | |
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