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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. | ||||||||||||
Series 13. Recordings, circa 1890-1950s | |||||||||||||
Extent: 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 | |||||||||||||
The recorded sound component of the Berliner Collection consists of over four
hundred discs. These include records produced by the Berliner Gramophone Company
from the mid-1890s to 1900, unpublished and experimental records, some metal discs
that may be stampers or mothers, a number of recordings made for private use, a
selection of electronically recorded Victor 78 rpm records, and a number of other
commercially released 78s and LPs. The published Berliner records represent one of
the first successful attempts to mass-market and commercially distribute popular
sound recordings. The online Library of Congress presentation of Emile Berliner materials, entitled "Emile Berliner and the Birth of the Recording Industry," features approximately 100 sound recordings that have been converted to Broadcast WAVE and Real Audio streaming digital files. Most of the digitized discs date from the 1870s to the early 1930s, although there are a few items from as late as 1956. Each of those discs is briefly described in this series and links are provided to the online digital files for listening. More detailed information about the Berliner Collection sound discs, along with other Berliner recordings acquired separately from the collection, can be found in the Library of Congress Online Catalog. |
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DISC Berliner 0559 | Adeste fideles Published: [United States] : E. Berliner's Gramophone, 1899. |
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1 sound disc : | |||||||||||||
Original issue number: E. Berliner's Gramophone 0559 | |||||||||||||
Online digital audio. | |||||||||||||
Unidentified chimes performer. | |||||||||||||
Recorded at an unknown location, Sept. 29, 1899. | |||||||||||||
LC Online Catalog record: http://lccn.loc.gov/00582441 | |||||||||||||
DISC Berliner 1216 | Adios a Mexico Published: [United States] : E. Berliner's Gramophone, [189-] |
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1 sound disc : | |||||||||||||
Original issue number: E. Berliner's Gramophone 1216 | |||||||||||||
Online digital audio. | |||||||||||||
Arthur B. Adamini, tenor; with piano acc. | |||||||||||||
Autograph of Adamini inscribed in zinc master. | |||||||||||||
LC Online Catalog record: http://lccn.loc.gov/00579679 | |||||||||||||
DISC Berliner 0504 | Admiral Dewey march Published: [United States] : E. Berliner's Gramophone, 1899. |
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Composer: Santelmann, William H. (William Henry), 1863-1932. | |||||||||||||
1 sound disc : | |||||||||||||
Original issue number: E. Berliner's Gramophone 0504 | |||||||||||||
Online digital audio. | |||||||||||||
Performed by the United States Marine Band; William H. Santelmann, conductor. | |||||||||||||
Recorded at an unknown location, Sept. 20, 1899. | |||||||||||||
Autograph of Santelmann (conductor) inscribed in zinc master. | |||||||||||||
LC Online Catalog record: http://lccn.loc.gov/99391883 | |||||||||||||
DISC Berliner 1113 | Africana. Published: New York : E. Berliner's Gramophone, 1898. |
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Composer: Meyerbeer, Giacomo, 1791-1864. | |||||||||||||
1 sound disc : | |||||||||||||
Original issue number: E. Berliner's Gramophone 1113 | |||||||||||||
Online digital audio. | |||||||||||||
Alberto del Campo, baritone; piano acc. | |||||||||||||
Recorded in New York, N.Y., June 6, 1898. | |||||||||||||
LC Online Catalog record: http://lccn.loc.gov/00579596 | |||||||||||||
DISC Berliner 051 | America Published: [United States] : E. Berliner's Gramophone, 1899. |
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1 sound disc : | |||||||||||||
Original issue number: E. Berliner's Gramophone 051 | |||||||||||||
Online digital audio. | |||||||||||||
George J. Gaskin, tenor; piano acc. | |||||||||||||
Recorded at an unknown location, Apr. 5, 1899. | |||||||||||||
Autograph of Gaskin inscribed in zinc master. | |||||||||||||
LC Online Catalog record: http://lccn.loc.gov/99471447 | |||||||||||||
DISC Berliner 097 | Auction sale, household goods Published: [United States] : E. Berliner's Gramophone, 1899. |
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1 sound disc : | |||||||||||||
Original issue number: E. Berliner's Gramophone 097 | |||||||||||||
Online digital audio. | |||||||||||||
Len Spencer, speaker. | |||||||||||||
Recorded at an unknown location, Apr. 29, 1899. | |||||||||||||
Autograph of Spencer inscribed in zinc master. | |||||||||||||
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