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| Series 4. Books, 1879-1928 (continued) | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 10/4 | United States v. American Bell Telephone Co.,oral argument for Mr. Storrow for the Bell Company on its demurrer, June, 1887, and oral argument of Mr. Dickerson for the Bell Company, 1888 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 10/5 | The Telephone Appeals, oral argument of Mr. Dickerson, January 24 to February 8, 1887 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 10/6 | The Telephone Appeals, oral argument of Mr. Storrow on the Drawbaugh defence, January 24 to February 8, 1887 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 10/7 | History of the telephone,James Storrow before the Supreme Court, 1886 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 10/8 | American Bell Telephone Co. v. Sylvanus D. Cushman et al, 1893 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 11/1 | American Bell Telephone Co. v. National Telephone Manufacturing Co., v. Century Telephone Co. et al,, argument of Frederic H. Betts, 1899 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 11/2 | American Bell Telephone Co. v. National Telephone Manufacturing Co. v. Century Telephone Co. et al,, brief for complainant, 1899 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 11/3 | American Bell Telephone Co. v. National Telephone Co. Manufacturing Co. et al, argument at the hearing in support of the defense, by R.S. Taylor, 1899 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 11/4 | American Bell Telephone Co. v. National Telephone Co. Manufacturing Co. et al,brief for defendants, 1895 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 11/5 | American Bell Telephone Co. v. National Telephone Co. Manufacturing Co. et al, brief for complainant upon appeal, 1902 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 11/6 | Gramophone Litigation, [1905?] | ||||||||||||
| BOX 29 | The Electrician, Weekly Journal, v. 4, November 22, 1879, to May 15, 1880 | ||||||||||||
| BOX 30 | Telegraphic Journal and Electrical Review, v. 8, January–December, 1880 | ||||||||||||
| Series 5. Catalogs, 1895-1896 | |||||||||||||
| 6 folders | |||||||||||||
| RPA 00842 (box 12) | |||||||||||||
| Selected items available online. | |||||||||||||
| Series 5 consists of catalogs from 1895 and 1896. Included is an advance list of new records from May 1895, a supplementary list of records from June 1985, a handwritten list of band music and recitations from July 1895, and a supplemental list of new gramophone records from June 1896. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 12/1 | Berliner Gramophone Co. complete catalogue, | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 12/2 | List of plates, January, 1895 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 12/2 | E. Berliner’s gramophone, 1895 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 12/2 | Advance list of new records, 1895 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 12/2 | Supplementary list of records, 1895 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 12/2 | Supplement list of new gramophone records, 1896 | ||||||||||||
| Series 6. Correspondence, 1871-1926, 1946-1955 | |||||||||||||
| .5 linear feet | |||||||||||||
| RPA 00842 (box 12) | |||||||||||||
| Selected items available online. | |||||||||||||
| This series includes some personal correspondence from Emile Berliner to Jacob Berliner, but the majority of correspondence pertains to business letters and copies of letters between Berliner and J.W. Hyatt, William P. Richards (D.C. Surveyor’s Office), Alfred C. Clark, James Rush Marshall, and others. This series is arranged in chronological order. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 12/3 | 1870-1871 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 12/4 | 1881-1887 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 12/5 | 1888-1889 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 12/6 | 1890-1896 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 12/7 | 1905-May, 1922 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 12/8 | July 1922-1928 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 12/9 | October 1926-November 6, 1926, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 12/10 | November 7, 1926-November 24, 1926, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 12/11 | 1946, 1955, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 12/12 | Louise Berliner Frank King’s family tree research | ||||||||||||
| Series 7. Journals and Diaries, 1889-1907 | |||||||||||||
| .5 linear feet | |||||||||||||
| RPA 00843 (box 13) | |||||||||||||
| Selected items available online. | |||||||||||||
| Series 7 includes copies of Cora Berliner’s journal of her family’s trip to Germany in 1889 and Joseph Sander’s diaries from 1906 and 1907. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 13/1 | Journal of Cora A. Berliner, 1889-1890 | ||||||||||||
| Includes copies. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 13/2 | Joseph Sanders’s diary, 1906 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 13/3 | Joseph Sanders’s diary, 1907 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 13/4 | Unidentified diary, undated | ||||||||||||
| Series 8. Miscellaneous Materials, 1897-1929 | |||||||||||||
| .5 linear feet | |||||||||||||
| RPA 00843 (box 13) | |||||||||||||
| Selected items available online. | |||||||||||||
| This series contains a variety of materials, including a 1927 report on the activities of the Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis of the District of Columbia; copies of sheet music for the “Columbian Anthem,” which was written by Berliner; invitations; award certificates; and programs. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 13/5 | Report, Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis of the District of Columbia, 1927-1929 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 13/5 | Sheet music, invitations, award certificates, programs, 1896-1930 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 13/6 | Promotional materials for the Celotex Company, 1925 | ||||||||||||
| Series 9. Notes and Papers, 1977-1928 | |||||||||||||
| .5 linear feet | |||||||||||||
| RPA 00843 (box 13) | |||||||||||||
| Selected items available online. | |||||||||||||
| Series 9 contains notes made by Emile Berliner on many of the inventions and experiments he was working on during his lifetime. These include the electric telescope, organophone, batteries, broken-point microphone, a siphoning gas jet, and producing a tremolo (tremolo on a violin). The series also contains copies of a tribute to Berliner on his birthday from the board of directors of the Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis, essays, speeches, and legal documents. Researchers will find a handwritten statement by Berliner describing his preferred funeral arrangements. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 13/7 | Notes on experiments, including electric telescope, broken-point microphone, gas jet, battery, and violin, 1877-1884 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 13/8 | Experiment log and notes on experiments, including batteries, candle, light through electrolyte and magnetic field, and final development of the Blake transmitter, 1884-1923 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 13/9 | Birthday tribute to Emile Berliner on his 75th birthday, publicity for Berliner’s acoustic cement cells, and Berliner’s funeral preferences, 1926-1928 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 13/10 | Agreement between Joseph and Jacob Berliner, the Bell-Berliner system since 1879, a poem in German, an essay on the magnetic receiver, and a eulogy for Berliner | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 13/11 | “Wonders,” an essay describing the wonders found in everyday occurrences of scientific principles, 1897 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 13/12 | Legal documents and notes in German, 1887-1891 | ||||||||||||
| Series 10. Pamphlets, 1890-1929, 1951, undated | |||||||||||||
| .5 linear feet | |||||||||||||
| RPA 00844 (box 14) | |||||||||||||
| Selected items available online. | |||||||||||||
| This series contains copies of pamphlets describing the operating directions for the motor gramophone, the history of the gramophone, promotional pamphlets for the gramophone and acoustical tile, reports on installing acoustic tile at Drexel Institute, the microphone, and promotion of the Berliner biography by Frederic William Wile. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 14/1 | Gramophone | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 14/2 | Acoustics | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 14/3 | Microphone | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 14/4 | Telephone almanac, 1951 | ||||||||||||
| Series 11. Patents, 1879-1909 | |||||||||||||
| .5 linear feet | |||||||||||||
| RPA 00844 (box 14) | |||||||||||||
| Selected items available online. | |||||||||||||
| Copies of patents in this series include improvements in electrical contact telephones, designs for carpeting, improvements to telephone transmitters, gramophone improvements, floor coverings, apparatus for producing sound records, and Joseph Berliner’s improvements in connection with vulcanizers and other apparatus. Researchers will find copies of patents held by other inventors, such as Fay Oscar Farwell, Sumner Tainter, Gavin Chapman, Byron Goldsmith, Charles Francis Jenkins, as well as many others. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 14/5 | 1879-1900 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 14/6 | 1900-1909 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 14/7 | Gramophone, 1887-1898 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 14/8 | Other patent holders, A-F | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 14/9 | Other patent holders, G-Z | ||||||||||||
| Series 12. Photographs, 1871-1965, undated | |||||||||||||
| 2 linear feet | |||||||||||||
| RPA 00845-00847 (boxes 15-17); RPC 00082 (box OS 2) | |||||||||||||
| Selected items available online. | |||||||||||||
| This series includes copies of formal portraits, Berliner working in his laboratory, family scenes with Cora Berliner and other family members, the staff of U.S. Gramophone Co., and others. There are also photographs of gramophones; Berliner’s factory in Hanover, Germany; microphones; acoustic tiles; the Technical Institute (Technische Hochschule in Hanover); the auditorium in the Oyster School, Washington, D.C.; the Berliner House at 1458 Columbia Road; and many others. Included is a photograph album, circa 1918-1923, of 56 photographs. Photographs are black and white; sizes are 10 x 13 inches and smaller. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 15/1 | 1872-1926 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 15/2 | 1872-1926 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 15/3 | 1881-1926 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 15/4 | undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 15/5 | 1875, 1895, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 15/6 | 1875-1907, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 15/7 | 1927, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 16/1 | Photograph album, circa 1918-1923 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 16/2 | 1912-1932, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 16/3 | 1912, 1915, 1924, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 16/4 | 1910-1927, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 16/5 | 1900-1950, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 16/6 | 1920, 1932, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 16/7 | 1915–1924, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 16/8 | 1910-1965, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 16/9 | 1910-1932, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 17/1 | 1876, 1894, 1920, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 17/2 | 1888, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 17/3 | 1914, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 17/4 | 1914, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 17/5 | 1877, 1926, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 17/6 | undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 17/7 | undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 17/8 | 1890-1900, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 17/9 | 1898, 1924-1929, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 17/10 | 1927, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 17/11 | 1920, 1926, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER OS 2/1 | Emile Berliner on porch | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER OS 2/1 | Milton King on horseback | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER OS 2/1 | Portrait of Louise Berliner | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER OS 2/2 | Portraits of Robert Berliner Frank | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER OS 2/2 | Portrait of Cora Berliner | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER OS 2/3 | Matrix plant of the Berliner Gramophone Co. | ||||||||||||
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