Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Collection Summary
Title | Emile Berliner collection, 1871-1965 |
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Span Dates | 1871-1965 |
Bulk Dates | (bulk 1871-1930) |
Creator | Berliner, Emile, 1851-1929 |
Extent (Textual Materials) | 41 boxes (approximately 1,000 items) |
Extent (Photographic Prints) | 232 photographic prints : |
Extent (Photographic Negatives) | 29 negatives : |
Extent (Sound Recordings) | over 400 sound discs, including zinc, copper, celluloid, rubber, shellac, and vinyl pressings and masters, in various speeds, and in sizes ranging from 5 to 12 inches in diameter |
Extent (Motion Pictures) | 1 film reel of 1 (12 feet) : |
Extent (Artifacts) | over 100 items, chiefly telephone, gramophone, and laboratory equipment, with 7 acoustic insulating panels and material samples, all made of various materials and in various sizes |
Language | Collection materials are in English, with some items in German publication titles. |
Location | Recorded Sound Research Center, National Audio-Visual Conservation Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Location of Textual and Graphic Materials: RPA 00832-00855 (boxes 1-2, 4-17, 31-38); RPB 00097-00109 (boxes 18-30); RPC 00082 (box OS 2); RPD 00035-00037 (boxes OS 1, OS 3-OS 4) |
Finding Aid Permalink | Cite or bookmark this finding aid as: https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mbrsrs/eadmbrs.rs011001 |
LCCN Permalink | LC Catalog record: https://lccn.loc.gov/2011622951 |
Summary | Unpublished and published textual materials, photographs, sound recordings, scrapbooks, artifacts, and a motion picture documenting the life and work of the German-born immigrant to America who invented the gramophone, the flat disc recording, the radio microphone, acoustic tile, and an early version of the helicopter. Included are unpublished and experimental gramophone records dating from the 1890s, some of them featuring the voices of Berliner and various family members, as well as recordings published by Berliner's gramophone companies in the U.S., Canada, and Germany. |
Online Content | Selected sound recordings, photographs, textual materials (such as articles, speeches, notes, and scrapbooks), artifacts, and a film from the collection are available in digital form on the Library of Congress website under the title: "Emile Berliner and the Birth of the Recording Industry" at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mbrsrs/collmbr.rs000002 Links to the digitized items are also provided in the container list of this finding aid. |