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