PhonoFocus By Request: United States Talking Machine

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I have a couple of photos of the record listing, but we're out the door to visit our daughter in Brooklyn. I'll get them posted on Tuesday or Wednesday - - sorry for the delay! ;)

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Here's a listing of the records detailed on the label of the $3 machine. This should be easier to read than a photo.

RECITATIONS:
Auctioneer, Geo. Graham - W626
Drinking - [no number listed]
23rd Psalm and Lord's Prayer - 668X
A Day in a Country School - 669
Virginia Camp Meeting - 670
Negro Oddities - 732
A Negro Funeral Sermon -689
Auction Sales of Toys - 671
Auction Sales at the Dime Museum - 685
Auction Sales at the Pawnbroker's - 686
The Laughing Auct. - 688

MILITARY BAND
Stars and Stripes Forever - 61
Spirit of '76 - 705

MISCELLANEOUS
Casey as Book Agent - 675
Yankee Doodle, Banjo Solo - 465
Jesus Lover of My Soul - 1755

COMIC SONGS
Bye Bye Ma Honey, Billy Golden - X727
Her Golden Hair - 938
She Never Did the Same - 1731
The Man in the Moon - 1733X
Ikey Isenstein - 1737
The Handicap Song - 1620
The Band Played On - 961
Enjoy Yourself (Darkey Song) - 1738

SONGS
Ben Bolt - 958
My Old Kentucky Home - 175
America - 1723
Hot Time Medley - 731
Laughing - 423
My Maryland - 1704
Dixie - 942
Where is my Boy To-Night - 918
All Hail the Power ["Coronation"] - 1768

GERMAN
Die Grenadiere - 1501
Dein Gedenk ich Margarethe - 1567
Gute Nacht -1572

The $3.50 machine has the same list but with the following additions:

RECITATIONS:
Advertising Plant's Baking Powder - 641
[The record "Drinking" now has the record number 648 added, whereas it was missing in the earlier label]

MILITARY BAND
El Capitan (Sousa) - 14542

COMIC SONGS:
Your [sic] Not the Only Pebble on the Beach - 524Y

SONGS:
Marching Thro' Georgia (Tenor Solo) - 172X
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp - 157Z
I Don't Want to Play in Your Yard - 178

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As promised, here are photos (poor ones!) of the record listing on the lid of the cardboard-boxed "Phonogram" Talking Machine...

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Thank you Rene and George for the listings which appear to be identical except for the record numbers.

Could it be that the cardboard boxed machine is Joseph Nathaniel Brown's original model about which The Phonoscope wrote in its March 1897 issue that it "can be manufactured and sold for $2 or $3"?

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Based on the dates of the various advertisements, the "Phonogram" seems to have appeared after the wooden-box models.

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Hi,

The original address for the $3 Model seems to be in Chicago - perhaps at 358 Dearborn Street.

When the price climbed to $3.50, they seem to acquire a NYC address: 57 E. 9th Street, under their own name, United States Talking Machine Co.

But I believe there was also another Lid-Label $3.50 Version, which has "National Gramophone Co. 874 Broadway."
Is there an (old/new) image which would show that detail?

Thanks! Most sources claim that the first oak-case models appeared in "late 1897" ($3), but I wonder if they were available by June of 1897?

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What happened to all the photos? I can’t seem to view any of them in this thread only?
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phonospud wrote: Sat Jun 10, 2023 9:33 am What happened to all the photos? I can’t seem to view any of them in this thread only?
It's this way with all the older threads. Our AWOL webmaster claims that they can be retrieved but has not done so. Essentially, this forum has been set adrift.

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Thanks! I didn’t realize the age of the thread😔
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Mine (cardboard version) has a slightly different record list - with no numbers. This is the left side

RECITATIONS:
Drinking
23rd Psalm and Lord's Prayer
Auctioneer, Geo. Graham
A Negro Funeral Sermon
A Day in a Country School
The Laughing Auctioneer
Virginia Camp Meeting
Auction Sales of Toys
" " at the Dime Museum
" " at the Pawnbroker's
Negro Oddities

MILITARY BAND
Stars and Stripes Forever
Spirit of '76

MISCELLANEOUS
Jesus Lover of My Soul
Casey as Book Agent
Yankee Doodle, Banjo Solo

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