1910 - 1915

Phonograph Ads in the Early Teens


This gallery features phonograph ads from 1910 to 1915.

 

"Grand opera at home," Good Housekeeping Magazine, 1910

 

' A completely concealed graphophone," Scribner's Magazine, January 1910, 6" x 9"

 

Advertisement in December 1910 by John E. Sheridan (PM-952A & PM-952B)

 

Edison ad promoting Carmen Melis, The Review of Reviews, 1910

 

Edison ad promoting Stella Mayhew, The Review of Reviews, 1910

 

"Melba came to America a week ahead of time" to record her new Victor records, 1910

 

The First Hornless Graphophone, Munsey's Magazine, October 1911

 

 

"Music such as you have never heard before - right in in your home" Scribner's Magazine, 1911

 

 

 

The Columbia Grafonola "Favorite" $50, Scribner's Magazine, 1911

 

 

Edison advertisement by J.J. Gould, Success Magazine, May 1911

 

 

Advertisement in November 1911 by John E. Sheridan (PM-0952)

 

Celebrating King George V Coronation, June 22, 1911

The New Hornless Model of "His Master's Voice" made and sold by The Gramophone Company, Ltd., 21 City Road, E.C. (Courtesy PeriodPaper).

 

Buy tickets for a public recital or buy his record and "hear him in a private recital..." The Independent Magazine, 1912

 

"A Columbia Grafonola will make this Christmas last all year...the one ideal gift for all the family for all the year around," Everybody's Magazine, 1912.

 

Opera season is almost over but its masterpieces can still be enjoyed on the Victor-Victrola, Life, April 11, 1912

 

"Say Pop! We just gotta have a Columbia Grafonola this Christmas", Life, December 4, 1913

 

Columbia dance records "are the best I have heard." Vernon Castle, The Theater Magazine, 1914

 

"Here comes our Columbia." Cosmopolitan, May 1914

 

"The galaxy of operatic stars and virtuosi who have recorded their matchless art exclusively on Columbia Records for the Columbia Grafonola." The Theater Magazine, 1914

 

Life, December 3, 1914 - This image was also used in Victor's Christmas brochure for 1914.