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Series 2. Collection Notes, 1919-1972, undated | |||||||||||||
.21 linear feet | |||||||||||||
RPA 00160 (box 1); RPA 00161 (box 2) | |||||||||||||
Series 2 consists of acquisition notes, equipment descriptions, lecture notes, and other items. Included is a diary dating from circa 1952 to 1959 with notes about Sayers's acquisition of equipment and recordings. Lecture notes and miscellaneous writings refer to the history of recording in the United States and Ohio. Miscellaneous collection notes consist of scraps of paper with brief notations about individual recordings, record lists, and addresses of dealers and collectors. One folder contains notes and ephemera relating to Sayers's interest in vaudeville performer Elsie Janis. | |||||||||||||
Materials in this series are filed alphabetically by description. | |||||||||||||
BOX 1 FOLDER 13 | Addresses, undated | ||||||||||||
BOX 1 FOLDER 14 | Diary of collection and acquisition notes, 1952-1959 | ||||||||||||
BOX 2 FOLDER 15 | Equipment descriptions, undated | ||||||||||||
BOX 2 FOLDER 16 | Elsie Janis notes and ephemera, 1919-1972 | ||||||||||||
BOX 2 FOLDER 17 | Lecture notes and miscellaneous writings, undated | ||||||||||||
BOX 2 FOLDER 18 | Receipts, 1958-1975 | ||||||||||||
BOX 2 FOLDER 19 | Miscellaneous collection notes, undated | ||||||||||||
Series 3. Printed Materials, 1923-1977, undated | |||||||||||||
.42 linear feet | |||||||||||||
RPA 00161 (box 2); RPA 00162 (box 3) | |||||||||||||
Series 3 contains newsletters, journals, pamphlets, guides and other printed materials relating to music, recordings and phonographs. Included are programs for music and theater performances, pamphlets on Thomas Edison's inventions and life, technical equipment guides, radio travel logs, record price listings and small catalogs, and reprints of articles on Ohio music and black recording artists. | |||||||||||||
Printed Materials are arranged alphabetically by type and thereunder by title or description. | |||||||||||||
Journals and newsletters | |||||||||||||
BOX 2 FOLDER 20 | The Music Box: An International Magazine of Mechanical Music, vol. 7, no. 1, 1975 | ||||||||||||
BOX 2 FOLDER 21 | Music Box Society Newsletter, no. 4, 1975 March | ||||||||||||
BOX 2 FOLDER 22 | Music Memories Monthly, vol. 3, no. 4, 1963 June | ||||||||||||
BOX 2 FOLDER 23-24 | The Ragtime Society, 1962-1966 | ||||||||||||
BOX 2 FOLDER 25-26 | The Ragtimer, 1975 March | ||||||||||||
Pamphlets | |||||||||||||
BOX 2 FOLDER 27-28 | Audio Equipment, 1923-1977 | ||||||||||||
BOX 2 FOLDER 29 | Thomas Alva Edison biographical materials, 1928, 1973 | ||||||||||||
BOX 2 FOLDER 30 | Music progams and guides, 1910-1929 | ||||||||||||
BOX 3 FOLDER oversize 31 | Radio, travel logs, 1925-1963 | ||||||||||||
BOX 3 FOLDER 32 | Radio technical guides, 1923-1930 | ||||||||||||
BOX 3 FOLDER 33 | The Rifle Queen: Annie Oakley, 1973 | ||||||||||||
BOX 3 FOLDER 34-36 | Record price lists, advertisements, and catalogs, 1930-1981, undated | ||||||||||||
BOX 3 FOLDER 37 | Reprints, undated | ||||||||||||
Series 4. Ephemera, 1907-1977, undated | |||||||||||||
.21 linear feet | |||||||||||||
RPA 00162 (box 3); RPA 00163 (box 4) | |||||||||||||
Series 4 consists of items in a variety of formats relating to Sayers's recording
interests. Included are clippings relating to musicians, inventors, and equipment;
a calendar issued by the Capehart Collection; advertisements; record inserts from
early Edison recordings; greeting cards; pictorial envelopes; phonograph diagrams;
and postcards. One folder of miscellaneous materials includes a slide with song
lyrics, business cards, and a record coupon. Series 6 contains oversize ephemera, such as promotional posters and banners. |
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Materials are arranged alphabetically by format. A folder of miscellaneous ephemera is filed at the end of the series. | |||||||||||||
Advertisements See also oversize Folder 31, Radio, travel logs, 1925-1963 | |||||||||||||
BOX 3 FOLDER 38 | Music box advertisements, 1897-1900, undated | ||||||||||||
BOX 3 FOLDER 39 | Phonograph advertisements, 1897-1923 | ||||||||||||
BOX 3 FOLDER 40 | Piano advertisements, 1897-1909 | ||||||||||||
BOX 3 FOLDER 41 | Recording advertisements, 1904-1929, 1969 | ||||||||||||
BOX 3 FOLDER 42 | Miscellaneous advertisements, 1898-1939, undated | ||||||||||||
BOX 3 FOLDER 43 | Calendar from the Capehart Collection, 1948 | ||||||||||||
BOX 3 FOLDER 44 | Clippings, 1932-1977 See also oversize Folder 66, Clippings, 1897-1961, undated | ||||||||||||
Please use photocopies in folder 45. | |||||||||||||
BOX 3 FOLDER 45 | Photocopies of clippings | ||||||||||||
Please use these photocopies rather than the fragile originals in folder 44. | |||||||||||||
BOX 3 FOLDER 46 | Greeting cards, undated | ||||||||||||
BOX 3 FOLDER 47 | Phonograph diagrams, undated | ||||||||||||
BOX 4 FOLDER 48 | Postcards and pictorial envelopes, 1908-1947, undated | ||||||||||||
BOX 4 FOLDER 49 | Record inserts for Edison cylinders, circa 1912-1914 | ||||||||||||
For cylinders #1828, 1889, 2024, 2034, 2051, 2063, 2142, 2152, 2219, 2269, 2288, 2290, and 2389. | |||||||||||||
BOX 4 FOLDER 50 | Miscellaneous, undated | ||||||||||||
Series 5. Photographs, circa 1895-1975, undated | |||||||||||||
.42 linear feet | |||||||||||||
RPA 00163 (box 4) | |||||||||||||
Series 5 contains approximately 75 photographs (black-and-white and color) as well as 7 slides and 32 negatives. Many of the photographs in this series were printed from copy negatives of older photographs or images from journals and books. Included are photographs of Isabelle Sayers displaying equipment from her collection and portraits of inventors Thomas Edison and Emile Berliner. Also represented are various actors and musicians, with a particular focus on Elsie Janis, a Columbus, Ohio, native and star of many vaudeville productions. Photographs of recording equipment and phonograph advertisements are also present. Three scrapbooks are included in this series. One contains Isabelle Sayers's family photographs and related ephemera; the two others include portraits and clippings of Broadway, movie, and recording personalities. | |||||||||||||
Photographs are arranged alphabetically by subject or type; miscellaneous negatives and photographs are filed at the end. | |||||||||||||
BOX 4 FOLDER 51 | Audio equipment, 1962, undated | ||||||||||||
BOX 4 FOLDER 52 | Emile Berliner portraits and equipment, undated | ||||||||||||
Prints made from copy negatives. | |||||||||||||
BOX 4 FOLDER 53 | Thomas Edison and the gravestone of Samuel Edison, 1969, and undated See also oversize Folder 70, Photographs and prints, 1923 and undated | ||||||||||||
One image is a copy. | |||||||||||||
BOX 4 FOLDER 54 | Elsie Janis portraits, circa 1895-1920, undated | ||||||||||||
Some are copies. | |||||||||||||
BOX 4 FOLDER 55 | Photographs of phonograph advertisements, undated | ||||||||||||
BOX 4 FOLDER 56 | Portraits of actors and musicians, undated | ||||||||||||
Included are images of Helen Clark, Glen Ellison, Kirsten Flagsted, Ada Jones, Helen Jepson, Betsy Lee Shepherd, and Blanche Theborn. | |||||||||||||
Most are copies. | |||||||||||||
BOX 4 FOLDER 57 | Isabelle Sayers with collection and musicians, circa 1945-1975 | ||||||||||||
BOX 4 FOLDER 58-61 | Scrapbooks, 1886-circa 1960 | ||||||||||||
Includes family photographs, images of Broadway and theater stars, and ephemera. | |||||||||||||
BOX 4 FOLDER 62 | Miscellaneous negatives, undated | ||||||||||||
Most are copy negatives. | |||||||||||||
BOX 4 FOLDER 63 | Miscellaneous photographs, 1899, undated | ||||||||||||
Series 6. Oversize Materials, 1897-1965, undated | |||||||||||||
2.04 linear feet | |||||||||||||
RPC 00001 (box 5); RPD 00041 (box 6); RPM 00002-00003 (map folders 1-2) | |||||||||||||
Oversize materials include posters, broadsides, photographs, prints, newspaper and
magazine clippings, and posters. A small collection of broadsides for early
concerts and equipment demonstrations are mostly undated. Oversize photographs are
all of Thomas A. Edison or his inventions; also included in this folder are
several copies of an undated wood block print of Edison. Clippings related to
Thomas A. Edison (a few are full copies of publications focusing on his career or
death), Elsie Janis and other musicians. Promotional posters and banners for
Edison and Graphophone presentations and products are also included. See also Series 4, Ephemera. |
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BOX 5 FOLDER 64 | Advertisements, 1910-1923, undated | ||||||||||||
BOX 5 FOLDER 65 | Broadsides, undated | ||||||||||||
BOX 5 FOLDER oversize 66 | Clippings, undated | ||||||||||||
Photocopies of oversize clippings; please use these rather than the fragile originals. | |||||||||||||
BOX 5 FOLDER 67-68 | Clippings, 1897-1961, undated | ||||||||||||
Please use the photocopies of these clippings housed in folder 66. | |||||||||||||
BOX 5 FOLDER 69 | Publications, 1859, 1919-1973 | ||||||||||||
BOX 5 FOLDER oversize 70 | Photographs and prints, 1923, undated | ||||||||||||
BOX 6 | Posters for Edison and Graphophone concert demonstrations, circa 1929-1930, undated | ||||||||||||
Item ID: RS 826 G1-G3 | |||||||||||||
FOLDER map folder 1 | Edison and Okeh promotional banners, undated | ||||||||||||
Item ID: RS 826 G4-G5 | |||||||||||||
Map case: RPM 00002 (map folder 1) | |||||||||||||
FOLDER map folder 2 | Edison promotional banner, undated | ||||||||||||
Item ID: RS 826 G6 | |||||||||||||
Map case: RPM 00003 (map folder 2) |