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Its the showing of the stocking tops I thought was something
for that time period.

This charming pastoral scene features a handsome Pathé machine, with the ornate back bracket which is so often damaged in old age.

I can contribute this photo. It was part of a collection of images left by my step-grandmother and represent her own friends and relatives from several decades before she married my grandfather. All I know is that the image was almost certainly taken in Alpena, Michigan in the 1920s--but none of the people are identified.

The photograph at far left appears to be an Edison "London upright" Diamond Disc machine.

Ralph

WOW, some of you guys have wonderful machines. Here is a cabinet card photo that I acquired many years ago. The guys on the outside with the Edison Wagon are the same as in the store? You have to look hard to see EDISON on the wagon.

Lenoirstreetguy wrote:Here's another post card that is indeed Canadian. The machine is a Berliner G ( I think..) sitting on the end of the sewing machine. It doesn't look exactly like an early G but the Berliner cabinets varied in the production runs. The calendar is from a Huntsvillle Ontario merchant. This has to be taken in January or February of 1910,( or later in the teens) from what I can see of the calendar date. It just might be his machine. By 1910 or '11 that model would be just obsolete enough that it could be given to a kid. Too bad the boy moved.

Jim

And the sewing machine collectors are complaining that you can barely see the machine!

This is a great thread. Glad to see it come up again.

Clay

Speaking of period pictures of phonographs....

I work at the Illinois Institute of Technology, which in 1919 was the Armour Institute of Technology--and at the center of Chicago's race riot of that year. As we on this forum know, 1919 saw a huge market for the phonograph, given the recent end of WWI--so people even in challenged neighborhoods were buying them.

Many Black families had to be evacuated from their homes during the 1919 Chicago race riot--and I have seem several photographs of their phonographs also being carried out to safety. This is the only example I can find at the moment. Anyone know the brand?

Ralph

"There should be music in every home on Christmas morning."
This photo has it all, Victrolas, signs, Nipper and Santa make a great window display. Enjoy more photos in our Nipper Collectibles books and Phonographica by Fabizio and Paul.

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL and A HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Rob & Joan

This picture is a bit of a mystery. It refers to British soldiers, but the disc machine is described as a phonograph and "armour" is spelt "armor" which suggests an American influence. Was it an American report on British preparations for war?

pughphonos wrote:Speaking of period pictures of phonographs....

I work at the Illinois Institute of Technology, which in 1919 was the Armour Institute of Technology--and at the center of Chicago's race riot of that year. As we on this forum know, 1919 saw a huge market for the phonograph, given the recent end of WWI--so people even in challenged neighborhoods were buying them.

Many Black families had to be evacuated from their homes during the 1919 Chicago race riot--and I have seem several photographs of their phonographs also being carried out to safety. This is the only example I can find at the moment. Anyone know the brand?

Ralph

Looks like it could be an A-150 Diamond Disc but I cannot be certain from the picture.