1905-1910 Ads
Welcoming the Phonograph into the Home
This gallery features phonograph ads from 1905 to 1910.
Music and words - "The fleeting pleasure is made permanent."
The Edison Phonograph Monthly, April 1905
Edison newspaper ad, The Talking Machine World, November 1905
Everybody's Magazine, December 1905 (PM-0881)
In 1904 and 1905 Edison also devoted much advertising attention to what it called the Phonograph's "Double Service" - as an entertainer and as an educator, i.e., "Amusement and Language Study." See "Double Service 1905" for examples of the calendar displayed each month in Edison's 1905 "Double Service" advertising campaign.
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The Edison Phonograph Monthly, May 1904
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McClure's Magazine, May 1905
"Hearing is Believing" Victor Talking Machine Company, Munsey's Magazine, 1905
.McClure's Magazine, 1905
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Munsey's Magazine, June 1905
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Munsey's Magazine, September 1905
Munsey's Magazine, October 1905 (PM-1026)
1906 The Metropolitan Magazine
"The Loftiest Flight of Inventive Genius," American Magazine, February 1906
The Commoner Magazine, April 19, 1907
1907 Harpers Magazine, 6" x 8"
The Red Book, 1906 (PM-0949)
The Review of Reviews Magazine, 1906
Victor Talking Machine Co., 1906 (PM-1365)
Victor Talking Machine Co., 1906
Edison ad for August as seen in Edison Phonograph Monthly, 1907
Columbia Record Catalogue cover, January 1907
John C. Walling ad, Victor & Edison, 1907
The Edison Phonograph Monthly, Edison ads for February 1907
The Edison Phonograph Monthly, Edison ads for September 1907
"Entertainment within reach of all," artwork by J. J. Gould, Colliers, May 1907
The Edison Phonograph, Artwork by Guernsey Moore, 1908
"Their Wedding March," American Magazine, 1908
"Which is which?" October 1908
The Talking Machine World, 1908
"A home without a Victor is a stage without a play." 1908
' A more fascinating entertainer than before..." Artwork by J. J. Gould, 1908
"It will surprise you when you find how quickly we can give deliveries..."
The Talking Machine World, December 15, 1908 - Example of one of many Disclaimers needed for popular culture topics, music and scrapbooks like Phonographia.
An Edison Phonograph on FREE TRIAL, Colliers, February 13, 1909
The Talking Machine World, 1909
Victor - "you can't tell it from the actual human voice!" 1909
"Why the mail was late." The World's Work, 1909
"The Rivals." The World's Work, 1909