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- Description:
- Color postcard depicting and old man and woman listen to a phonograph. Printed on recto: Grinnell Bros., Detroit, Mich. Handwritten message on verso, postmarked December 1907.
- Date Issued:
- 1907-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Postcard
- Description:
- Alexander Meyrick Broadley, Barrister at Law, complements Thomas A. Edison on the invention of the phonograph. Colonel George Edward Gouraud, Edison's representative in Britain, introduces Joseph Charles Parkinson, telegrapher, who then speaks. Part of Edison's promotional efforts in London.
- Date Issued:
- 1888-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Begins and ends with march music. Speech given by Austrian Emperor Franz-Josef I in Bad Ischl on the importance of the phonograph.
- Date Issued:
- 1903-08-02T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Miller Reese Hutchinson, Thomas Edison's Chief Engineer, describes the devices he is using to record and transmit his voice. A few days later, on October 21, 1915, this same recording is played and transmitted from the Edison Laboratory in West Orange, NJ to Edison at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco, CA via AT&T's newly completed transcontinental telephone line.
- Date Issued:
- 1915-10-17T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Emile Berliner recites "The Lord's Prayer" in English. Taken from a five-inch demonstration record.
- Date Issued:
- 1889-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Humorist Russell Hunting performs ethnic humor in this routine entitled, Casey listening to the phonograph, featuring another adventure of his Irish character, Michael Casey.
- Date Issued:
- 1905-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Billy Williams sings "Let's have a song upon the gramophone," an early promotional effort on behalf of the Gramophone and Typewriter Company. One of five different versions of this song recorded to promote different playback methods.
- Date Issued:
- 1911-02-03T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Color postcard depicting and old man and woman listen to a phonograph. Printed on recto: Grinnell Bros., Detroit, Mich. Handwritten message on verso, postmarked December 1907.
- Date Issued:
- 1907-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- WJBK disc jockey Clark Reid stands near phonograph, holding record albums.
- Notes:
- Collection located at the Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. To schedule an appointment to view the original image, order high resolution copies, or seek permission to use an image, contact the Walter P. Reuther Library Audiovisual Department at reutherreference@wayne.edu., Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, and This metadata was created by Wayne State University Library system based on original description by the Walter P. Reuther Library
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries and Walter P. Reuther Library
- Collection:
- Virtual Motor City
- Description:
- Miller Reese Hutchinson, Thomas Edison's Chief Engineer, describes the devices he is using to record and transmit his voice. A few days later, on October 21, 1915, this same recording is played and transmitted from the Edison Laboratory in West Orange, NJ to Edison at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco, CA via AT&T's newly completed transcontinental telephone line.
- Date Issued:
- 1915-10-17T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
