The Talking Machine Forum — For All Antique Phonographs & Recordings

Were there any Edison Christmas Advertisements? Like in the Saturday Evening Post, Ladies Home Journal, or Colurie's? Or any ads from the Labs in Menlo Park? I have a few ads from Columbia, and The Victor Talking Machine Co. I was just curious about Edison?

Paul

I was looking in Google Books for some Edison Xmas ads, and came across a good story about visiting Edison at his lab, on Christmas Eve 1912. If you enter "edison christmas" in the GB search, you should see a link to "America as I Saw It". There are mentions of the disc phono, concrete houses, the Kinetophone, etc.

The author, Mrs.Alec Tweedie, describes the aftermath of a heavy showstorm - including something I've neither read nor thought about, before: the plight of horses in the snow. "New York under winter snow is a pitiable sight. I never saw so many horses down in one day in my life; they lay about in every street."

Here's one I posted before. The artist is Rose O'Neill who is one of America's illustrators from the " golden age" of magazine and advertising art.
It's 1907 I think. I couldn't get a perfect scan without breaking the binding of that Everybody's Magazine. This would make a great Xmas card.

Jim

There is also a two-pager from 1910 that includes an Edison Home with a straight horn under a Christmas tree. It was reproduced in the Edison Phonograph Monthly.

Here's an earlier one . Again from Everybody's. This one appeared in December 1903. Cute, but not as charming as the 1907 offering.

Jim