By Doug Boilesen 2012
Phonographia are popular culture connections with the phonograph.
This gallery is a library of books, poetry, plays, 'sketches,' and short stories, each with at least one phonograph in its creative written work.
"a live phonograph...in the Land of Oz" |
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Tea Rex by Molly Idle |
Curious George Goes to the Hospital
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Scandal and A Gold Slipper by Willa Cather, (Youth and the Bright Medusa) 1920 |
The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather 1915 |
Coming, Aphrodite! by Willa Cather, (Youth and the Bright Medusa) 1920
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Another Adventure of Elsie and the Bunny |
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The Phonograph of Jean Bouvet by Henry S. Kingwell and written for the Talking Machine World, 1915 |
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The Jukebox Man |
Good Night Sesame Street |
What Happened To Mary, Episodes I and VII, August 1912 and January 1913 |
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Dead Musicians poem by Siegfried Sassoon |
The Phonograph Witness. A Drama in Five Acts by George W. Hill, 1883 |
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How among the frozen words Pantagruel found some odd ones, by Francois Rabelais, 1653 |
Round the Fire: VIII The Story of the Japanned Box, by A. Conan Doyle, 1899
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Mr. Openeer's Christmas, The Phonoscope, November 1899 |
The Phonogram, June 1900 |
How We Gave a Phonograph Party The Phonoscope,1899 |
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The Phonograph in Country Towns The Phonogram, October 1891 |
The Fateful Phonograph: Or, The Younger Brother's Revenge From the Chicago Tribune as seen in The Red Cloud Chief p. 2, January 29, 1880
Newspaper image provided by University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, Lincoln, NE |
The Valentines' Victrola, 1919 |
The Magic of Melody by Edgar March - Maclean's Magazine, August 15, 1933 |
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Black Hole Blues by Janna Levin, 2016 |
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The Revenge of Analog |
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No Escape from Black Holes? by Dennis Overbye - The New York Times June 6, 2016 |
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"Columbia and Victor" - A Vaudeville Act, 1918 |
The Big Book of Time |
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Love letters to Albums |
Hauntiques |
Just Imagine |
"Fair Fiction" PhonoLiterature (2)
Samantha at the World's Fair by Josiah Allen's Wife,1893
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The Century World's Fair Book for Boys and Girls by Tudor Jenks, 1893
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Love and Other Consolation Prizes - Seattle World's Fairs 1909 and 1962 |
Welcome to Samantha's World 1904 |
Phonographia