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A very elusive NEBRASKA collector: February 22, 1999
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California collectors: May 2, 1980
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Just a story about old records: April 21, 1972
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A February 9, 1957 article about noisy records of the 1920s.
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California collector: August 25, 1957

Looks like the guy is holding a brown wax record that was already starting to mold.
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Article about a Museum exhibit on antique phonos: March 6, 1972

I wonder if anyone here has the “Music Machines —American Style” catalog?

Or went to the museum where the exhibit was?
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Harold Schonberg wrote ‘Lives of the Great Composers’. An informative & readable background on the music & writers that many of us love.

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Article about a Graphophone display of the 1890s: February 20, 1977 (get ready for a lot of articles from 1977.)
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Texas Collector: December 18, 1974 (kinda stinks when some of these articles contain no pictures)
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Story about a Harry Lauder impersonator: March 3, 1960
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