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- Edison Diamond Disc Record, "Charmant Oiseau (from La Perle de Brasil)" and a Message for Thomas Edison, 1915 - This rare recording was the brainchild of Thomas Edison's Chief Engineer Miller R. Hutchison. A group of Edison's friends and business associates gathered at Edison's West Orange, New Jersey, laboratory as this pre-recorded speech was played during a telephone call made to Edison over the newly completed transcontinental telephone line. Edison was visiting the 1915 Pan-American Exhibition in San Francisco on the opposite coast. This recording was never sold commercially.
- October 21, 1915
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Edison Diamond Disc Record, "Charmant Oiseau (from La Perle de Brasil)" and a Message for Thomas Edison, 1915
This rare recording was the brainchild of Thomas Edison's Chief Engineer Miller R. Hutchison. A group of Edison's friends and business associates gathered at Edison's West Orange, New Jersey, laboratory as this pre-recorded speech was played during a telephone call made to Edison over the newly completed transcontinental telephone line. Edison was visiting the 1915 Pan-American Exhibition in San Francisco on the opposite coast. This recording was never sold commercially.
- Genius Rewarded, or the Story of the Sewing Machine, 1880 -
- 1880
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Genius Rewarded, or the Story of the Sewing Machine, 1880
- La-Z-Boy Advertisement in American Home Magazine, "A Family Affair with the Bing Crosbys," October 1967 - In 1927, cousins Edward Knabusch and Edwin Shoemaker, established what would later become La-Z-Boy, Inc. in Monroe, Michigan. They were a perfect pair: Shoemaker was fascinated with technology and Knabusch was a master marketer. Celebrity endorsements, beginning with Bing and Kathryn Crosby in the 1960s, would become an enduring La-Z-Boy advertising strategy.
- October 01, 1967
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La-Z-Boy Advertisement in American Home Magazine, "A Family Affair with the Bing Crosbys," October 1967
In 1927, cousins Edward Knabusch and Edwin Shoemaker, established what would later become La-Z-Boy, Inc. in Monroe, Michigan. They were a perfect pair: Shoemaker was fascinated with technology and Knabusch was a master marketer. Celebrity endorsements, beginning with Bing and Kathryn Crosby in the 1960s, would become an enduring La-Z-Boy advertising strategy.
- Edison Recording Artists Arthur Collins and Byron Harlan, circa 1916 -
- February 25, 1920
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Edison Recording Artists Arthur Collins and Byron Harlan, circa 1916
- Edison Recording Artists Arthur Collins and Byron Harlan, 1920 -
- February 25, 1920
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Edison Recording Artists Arthur Collins and Byron Harlan, 1920
- Singer Bowl Medal From New York World's Fair, 1964 - The Singer Company became the corporate sponsor of the assembly stadium during the 1964-65 New York World's Fair. The 17,000 seat "Singer Bowl" hosted the official opening of the fair along with other events. The stadium also contained an exhibition area about the famous sewing machine company. Fairgoers could remember their visit to the stadium with this souvenir medal.
- 1964
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Singer Bowl Medal From New York World's Fair, 1964
The Singer Company became the corporate sponsor of the assembly stadium during the 1964-65 New York World's Fair. The 17,000 seat "Singer Bowl" hosted the official opening of the fair along with other events. The stadium also contained an exhibition area about the famous sewing machine company. Fairgoers could remember their visit to the stadium with this souvenir medal.
- "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree," 1973 -
- 1973
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"Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree," 1973
- Trade Card for Singer Sewing Machine, "Spain (Sevilla)," 1892 - In the last third of the nineteenth century, an unprecedented variety of consumer goods and services flooded the American market. Advertisers, armed with new methods of color printing, bombarded potential customers with trade cards. Americans enjoyed and often saved the vibrant little advertisements found in product packages or distributed by local merchants. Many survive as historical records of commercialism in the United States.
- 1892
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Trade Card for Singer Sewing Machine, "Spain (Sevilla)," 1892
In the last third of the nineteenth century, an unprecedented variety of consumer goods and services flooded the American market. Advertisers, armed with new methods of color printing, bombarded potential customers with trade cards. Americans enjoyed and often saved the vibrant little advertisements found in product packages or distributed by local merchants. Many survive as historical records of commercialism in the United States.
- Vocalists Jose Manzanares and Dolores Anderson at the Microphone, Patio of the Ford Building, California Pacific International Exposition, San Diego, 1935 - Ford Motor Company poured resources into the 1935 California Pacific International Exposition in San Diego, constructing the fair's largest and most popular exhibition. Ford's massive steel and concrete Exposition building included an open-air courtyard and patio where visitors could relax and listen to rumba and dance rhythms performed by Jose Manzaneres's South American musical group.
- 1935
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Vocalists Jose Manzanares and Dolores Anderson at the Microphone, Patio of the Ford Building, California Pacific International Exposition, San Diego, 1935
Ford Motor Company poured resources into the 1935 California Pacific International Exposition in San Diego, constructing the fair's largest and most popular exhibition. Ford's massive steel and concrete Exposition building included an open-air courtyard and patio where visitors could relax and listen to rumba and dance rhythms performed by Jose Manzaneres's South American musical group.
- Postcard, "Williams Jubilee Singers Touring Europe," 1905 - Influenced by the popularity of the Fisk Jubilee Singers, Charles P. Williams founded the Williams Jubilee Singers, a Chicago-based a cappella ensemble, in 1904. The group consisted of classically trained singers who performed traditional Negro spirituals. They toured the United States and Europe with the goal of using music to combat racial discrimination and were especially popular in London, England.
- 1905
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Postcard, "Williams Jubilee Singers Touring Europe," 1905
Influenced by the popularity of the Fisk Jubilee Singers, Charles P. Williams founded the Williams Jubilee Singers, a Chicago-based a cappella ensemble, in 1904. The group consisted of classically trained singers who performed traditional Negro spirituals. They toured the United States and Europe with the goal of using music to combat racial discrimination and were especially popular in London, England.