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First Bell Telephone motion picture

First Bell Telephone motion picture

Attached caption: "10. First Bell Telephone, June 1875." Emile Berliner 1851 – 1929 was a German-born American inventor and businessman. He is best known for his development of the flat disc record and the Gra... More

Berliner, not Edison, is inventor of microphone, book declares

Berliner, not Edison, is inventor of microphone, book declares

Copy 1. Reprinted with permission from Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive Company, The Washington Post and washingtonpost.com. Copyright 2002, Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive, The Washington Post and wash... More

Emile Berliner, three-quarter length portrait, facing right, looking down at gramophone

Emile Berliner, three-quarter length portrait, facing right, looking d...

Originally housed in Illustrations folder. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Louise Berliner, full-length portrait, standing on deck of ship

Louise Berliner, full-length portrait, standing on deck of ship

Verso: "Louise - then - Frank about 1927" Emile Berliner 1851 – 1929 was a German-born American inventor and businessman. He is best known for his development of the flat disc record and the Gramophone. Berlin... More

Patents booklet motion picture, Emile Berliner radio broadcasting collection

Patents booklet motion picture, Emile Berliner radio broadcasting coll...

"H'oenshein" ? handwritten on front cover. Pencil notations p.1, p. 5 , p. 15. Informally-bound booklet of various gramophone patents, diagrams, and specifications, including Emile Berliner's patents: 372,786; ... More

Muddy Jim and other rhymes : 12 illustrated health jingles for children, picture book edition

Muddy Jim and other rhymes : 12 illustrated health jingles for childre...

Table of contents: "Rhymes by Emile Berliner, President Tuberculosis Society of Washington, D.C., pictures by J. A. Whiteford." Also printed on title page : "Learn every rhyme and be healthy all the time." Abov... More

Portrait of Emile Berliner in later years

Portrait of Emile Berliner in later years

Copy 1. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Early Berliner recording machine built into large wooden stand

Early Berliner recording machine built into large wooden stand

Emile Berliner 1851 – 1929 was a German-born American inventor and businessman. He is best known for his development of the flat disc record and the Gramophone. Berliner worked in the telegraph industry experim... More

Emile Berliner, seated and facing right in group portrait with two children

Emile Berliner, seated and facing right in group portrait with two chi...

Originally housed in Joseph Sanders Collection Box 5. Originally mounted cardboard and paper frame.

E. Berliner's gramophone motion picture

E. Berliner's gramophone motion picture

Advertisement of Berliner's gramophone contains girl sitting while playing gramophone. Verso contains handwritten list of band music and recitations, July 29, 1895.

Journal, Cora A. Berliner - Public domain document scan of drawing

Journal, Cora A. Berliner - Public domain document scan of drawing

Handwritten; only 38 p. contain writing; 8 loose p. inserted into journal. Contains inserted pencil drawing of Dr. Thaene by Emile Berliner. Cora A. Berliner's journal of her family's trip on board a steamer to... More

Patents booklet motion picture, Emile Berliner radio broadcasting collection

Patents booklet motion picture, Emile Berliner radio broadcasting coll...

"H'oenshein" ? handwritten on front cover. Pencil notations p.1, p. 5 , p. 15. Informally-bound booklet of various gramophone patents, diagrams, and specifications, including Emile Berliner's patents: 372,786; ... More

View of Berliner Gramophone factory, workbench, electrical equipment and electrical wall panel, alternate view

View of Berliner Gramophone factory, workbench, electrical equipment a...

Originally grouped in Brown Berliner photo box, item 11. List description: "Neg. no. 23456-5: machine shop with electrical post and light." Emile Berliner 1851 – 1929 was a German-born American inventor and bu... More

View of Berliner factory, batteries and electrical wall panel

View of Berliner factory, batteries and electrical wall panel

Originally grouped in Brown Berliner photo box, item 7. List description: "Neg. no. 23456-3: factory shop electrical box?" Emile Berliner 1851 – 1929 was a German-born American inventor and businessman. He is ... More

Scrap book motion picture - Public domain document scan of drawing

Scrap book motion picture - Public domain document scan of drawing

Scrapbook was probably compiled by Emile Berliner. Only excerpts have been digitized. Pages are empty except for 3. Article on cloud telegraphy is loose. Scrapbook is empty except for 3 pages relating to the Un... More

Auditorium in the James F. Oyster School in Washington

Auditorium in the James F. Oyster School in Washington

Copy 1. Attached caption: "Auditorium in the James F. Oyster School which produced such great reverberation that women often left meetings because the confusion of sounds was so unbearable. Part of the walls we... More

Berliner family motion picture - Public domain historic place photograph

Berliner family motion picture - Public domain historic place photogra...

Originally housed in Joseph Sanders Collection Box 5. Mounted on card. Smaller print of item 120010303.

Scrap book motion picture - Public domain document scan of drawing

Scrap book motion picture - Public domain document scan of drawing

Scrapbook was probably compiled by Emile Berliner. Only excerpts have been digitized. Pages are empty except for 3. Article on cloud telegraphy is loose. Scrapbook is empty except for 3 pages relating to the Un... More

Scrap book motion picture - Public domain document scan of drawing

Scrap book motion picture - Public domain document scan of drawing

Scrapbook was probably compiled by Emile Berliner. Only excerpts have been digitized. Pages are empty except for 3. Article on cloud telegraphy is loose. Scrapbook is empty except for 3 pages relating to the Un... More

Motorized gramophone motion picture

Motorized gramophone motion picture

Mounted on card. Originally housed in Joseph Sanders Collection Box 5. Emile Berliner 1851 – 1929 was a German-born American inventor and businessman. He is best known for his development of the flat disc reco... More

Patents booklet motion picture, Emile Berliner radio broadcasting collection

Patents booklet motion picture, Emile Berliner radio broadcasting coll...

"H'oenshein" ? handwritten on front cover. Pencil notations p.1, p. 5 , p. 15. Informally-bound booklet of various gramophone patents, diagrams, and specifications, including Emile Berliner's patents: 372,786; ... More

Document, 1879 Jan. 8, stating Emile Berliner's claims to telephony inventions

Document, 1879 Jan. 8, stating Emile Berliner's claims to telephony in...

May have been inside envelope addressed to Houghton Mifflin & Co., "re Watson's article, 1916." Drawing of invention attached. Document asserts Emile Berliner's claims to have invented improvements to telephony... More

Samuel? Halton?, half-length portrait, facing left

Samuel? Halton?, half-length portrait, facing left

Verso: "Samuel? Halton?" Emile Berliner 1851 – 1929 was a German-born American inventor and businessman. He is best known for his development of the flat disc record and the Gramophone. Berliner worked in the ... More

Emile Berliner in mirrors - Public domain portrait print

Emile Berliner in mirrors - Public domain portrait print

Originally grouped in Brown Berliner photo box, item 19. Title taken from list description: "Emile Berliner in Mirrors"

Group portrait of Emile Berliner and others

Group portrait of Emile Berliner and others

Mounted on cardboard. Originally housed in Joseph Sanders Collection Box 5.

Microphonic contacts motion picture

Microphonic contacts motion picture

Emile Berliner 1851 – 1929 was a German-born American inventor and businessman. He is best known for his development of the flat disc record and the Gramophone. Berliner worked in the telegraph industry experim... More

Patents booklet motion picture, Emile Berliner radio broadcasting collection

Patents booklet motion picture, Emile Berliner radio broadcasting coll...

"H'oenshein" ? handwritten on front cover. Pencil notations p.1, p. 5 , p. 15. Informally-bound booklet of various gramophone patents, diagrams, and specifications, including Emile Berliner's patents: 372,786; ... More

Berliner Gramophone Co., complete catalogue
Portrait photo of Photograph album, ca. 1918-1923

Portrait photo of Photograph album, ca. 1918-1923

Album of personal photographs. Includes Berliner, family and friends. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Patents booklet motion picture, Emile Berliner radio broadcasting collection

Patents booklet motion picture, Emile Berliner radio broadcasting coll...

"H'oenshein" ? handwritten on front cover. Pencil notations p.1, p. 5 , p. 15. Informally-bound booklet of various gramophone patents, diagrams, and specifications, including Emile Berliner's patents: 372,786; ... More

Dr. Ernest C. Schroeder, three-quarter length portrait, facing slightly right

Dr. Ernest C. Schroeder, three-quarter length portrait, facing slightl...

Verso: "Dr. E.C. Schroeder." Attached caption: "Dr. Ernest C. Schroeder, biologist, Director U.S. Animal Experiment Station, Bethesda Md. Whose friendship and co-operation Berliner enjoyed for many years." Emi... More

The Bell Magneto telephone in 1877

The Bell Magneto telephone in 1877

Title taken from attached caption: "The Bell Magneto telephone in 1877." Emile Berliner 1851 – 1929 was a German-born American inventor and businessman. He is best known for his development of the flat disc re... More

Gramophone : No. 534,543, patented 1895 Feb. 19 photocopy

Gramophone : No. 534,543, patented 1895 Feb. 19 photocopy

1 page photocopy of a diagram from patent No. 534,543. Witnesses listed as: Percy C ? Bowen and F. J. ? Chapman, Joseph Lyons, Attorney. 1 page photocopy of diagram on page 3 of a four page patent. "4 Sheets--Sheet 3."

Letter from J. W. Hyatt to E. Berliner 1888 August 25

Letter from J. W. Hyatt to E. Berliner 1888 August 25

With original envelope. Letter from J. W. Hyatt to E. Berliner regarding the pressing of discs from Berliner's zinc master.

Muddy Jim and other rhymes : 12 illustrated health jingles for children, picture book edition

Muddy Jim and other rhymes : 12 illustrated health jingles for childre...

Table of contents: "Rhymes by Emile Berliner, President Tuberculosis Society of Washington, D.C., pictures by J. A. Whiteford." Also printed on title page : "Learn every rhyme and be healthy all the time." Abov... More

Portrait photo of Photograph album, ca. 1918-1923

Portrait photo of Photograph album, ca. 1918-1923

Album of personal photographs. Includes Berliner, family and friends. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Muddy Jim and other rhymes : 12 illustrated health jingles for children, picture book edition

Muddy Jim and other rhymes : 12 illustrated health jingles for childre...

Table of contents: "Rhymes by Emile Berliner, President Tuberculosis Society of Washington, D.C., pictures by J. A. Whiteford." Also printed on title page : "Learn every rhyme and be healthy all the time." Abov... More

The gramophone: etching the human voice

The gramophone: etching the human voice

Copy 1. Title on cover: "Paper read before the Franklin Institute, May 16, 1888, on the gramophone by its inventor, Emile Berliner." Reprint of published speech by Berliner delivered to the Franklin Institute o... More

Portrait photo of Photograph album, ca. 1918-1923

Portrait photo of Photograph album, ca. 1918-1923

Album of personal photographs. Includes Berliner, family and friends. Public domain scan - children, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Patents booklet motion picture, Emile Berliner radio broadcasting collection

Patents booklet motion picture, Emile Berliner radio broadcasting coll...

"H'oenshein" ? handwritten on front cover. Pencil notations p.1, p. 5 , p. 15. Informally-bound booklet of various gramophone patents, diagrams, and specifications, including Emile Berliner's patents: 372,786; ... More

Early hand wind machine - Early photography, Public domain image

Early hand wind machine - Early photography, Public domain image

Title taken from Brown Berliner photo box list. Originally grouped in Brown Berliner photo box, item 2. Emile Berliner 1851 – 1929 was a German-born American inventor and businessman. He is best known for his ... More

Robert Berliner Frank, three-quarter length portrait, in flight suit, standing next to plane

Robert Berliner Frank, three-quarter length portrait, in flight suit, ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a pilot, aviator, aircraft, free to use, no copyright restrictions. Emile Berliner 1851 – 1929 was a German-born American inventor and businessman. He is best known f... More

Louise Berliner, full-length portrait, as a child

Louise Berliner, full-length portrait, as a child

Mounted on board. Written on front: "CM Gilbert" Verso: "Louise, High Art Photography, Gilbert Studios, 926 Chestnut St., Philada, cor. F & Eleventh St., Washington, D.C., Atlantic City, N.J." Emile Berliner 1... More

Portrait photo of Photograph album, ca. 1918-1923

Portrait photo of Photograph album, ca. 1918-1923

Album of personal photographs. Includes Berliner, family and friends. Public domain photograph - military portrait, armed forces officer, leader, commander, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions... More

Gramophone patents: U. S. Gramophone Co

Gramophone patents: U. S. Gramophone Co

Handwritten notations throughout. Correction page tipped in at beg. Patent 548, 623. Some blank pages between patents and facing diagrams. Gramophone patents bound informally together. Includes Berliner patents... More

Patents booklet motion picture, Emile Berliner radio broadcasting collection

Patents booklet motion picture, Emile Berliner radio broadcasting coll...

"H'oenshein" ? handwritten on front cover. Pencil notations p.1, p. 5 , p. 15. Informally-bound booklet of various gramophone patents, diagrams, and specifications, including Emile Berliner's patents: 372,786; ... More

Gramophone litigation motion picture

Gramophone litigation motion picture

Hardcover. Title taken from spine. Contains compiled material on Victor Talking Machine Co. and U.S. Gramophone Co. vs. American Graphophone Co.; American Graphophone Co. v. National Gramophone Co. and Frank Se... More

James J. Storrow, half-length portrait, facing left

James J. Storrow, half-length portrait, facing left

Attached caption: "James J. Storrow, eminent patent counsel for the Bell Telephone interests who defended the Bell and Berliner patents." Emile Berliner 1851 – 1929 was a German-born American inventor and busi... More

Emile Berliner, full length portrait, facing left

Emile Berliner, full length portrait, facing left

Originally housed in Joseph Sanders Collection Box 5. Mounted on cardboard labeled Bachrach & Bro, Baltimore, Md, Washington, D.C.

Emile Berliner, bust portrait, facing slightly right

Emile Berliner, bust portrait, facing slightly right

Mounted on cardboard. Originally housed in Joseph Sanders Collection Box 5.

Emile Berliner and veiled woman in automobile

Emile Berliner and veiled woman in automobile

Public domain photograph of an automobile, 1910s car, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Microphonic contacts by opaque illumination

Microphonic contacts by opaque illumination

Originally housed in envelop labeled: "Roy M. Allen 1926." Verso: "Roy M. Allen, Bloomfield, N.J., Photomicrograph, subject: Microphonic Contacts by opaque illumination. No. C-81, magnification 1125x." Emile B... More

Gramophone: specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 372,786, dated 1887 November 8

Gramophone: specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 372,786, ...

Diagram and specifications. Original application filed May 4, 1887, Serial No. 237,060. Divided and this application filed September 26, 1887. Serial No. 250,721. Patent detailing Emile Berliner's "useful impro... More

Portrait photo of Photograph album, ca. 1918-1923

Portrait photo of Photograph album, ca. 1918-1923

Album of personal photographs. Includes Berliner, family and friends. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Gramophone patents: U. S. Gramophone Co

Gramophone patents: U. S. Gramophone Co

Handwritten notations throughout. Correction page tipped in at beg. Patent 548, 623. Some blank pages between patents and facing diagrams. Gramophone patents bound informally together. Includes Berliner patents... More

Louise Berliner, three-quarter length portrait, facing forward, wearing large hat

Louise Berliner, three-quarter length portrait, facing forward, wearin...

Public domain scan of a female portrait, woman, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Emile Berliner 1851 – 1929 was a German-born American inventor and businessman. He is best know... More

Emile and Cora Berliner - Public domain portrait print

Emile and Cora Berliner - Public domain portrait print

Title taken from Brown Berliner photo box list. Originally grouped in Brown Berliner photo box, item 17.

109 Court Street Boston where both Bell and Berliner worked

109 Court Street Boston where both Bell and Berliner worked

Title taken from attached caption: "14. 109 Court Street Boston where both Bell and Berliner worked." Emile Berliner 1851 – 1929 was a German-born American inventor and businessman. He is best known for his de... More

Production of Sound Records : specifications forming part of Letters Patent No. 688,739, dated 1901 December 10

Production of Sound Records : specifications forming part of Letters P...

"Joseph W. Jones of New York, N.Y. assignor to himself, and Joseph A. Vincent, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Diagram and specifications detailing Joseph Jones' improvements in the production of sound records.

Gramophone patents: U. S. Gramophone Co

Gramophone patents: U. S. Gramophone Co

Handwritten notations throughout. Correction page tipped in at beg. Patent 548, 623. Some blank pages between patents and facing diagrams. Gramophone patents bound informally together. Includes Berliner patents... More

Portrait photo of Photograph album, ca. 1918-1923

Portrait photo of Photograph album, ca. 1918-1923

Album of personal photographs. Includes Berliner, family and friends. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Patents booklet motion picture, Emile Berliner radio broadcasting collection

Patents booklet motion picture, Emile Berliner radio broadcasting coll...

"H'oenshein" ? handwritten on front cover. Pencil notations p.1, p. 5 , p. 15. Informally-bound booklet of various gramophone patents, diagrams, and specifications, including Emile Berliner's patents: 372,786; ... More

Portrait photo of Photograph album, ca. 1918-1923

Portrait photo of Photograph album, ca. 1918-1923

Album of personal photographs. Includes Berliner, family and friends. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Group portrait of children, including Louise Berliner

Group portrait of children, including Louise Berliner

Mounted on cardboard. Originally housed in Joseph Sanders Collection Box 5. Emile Berliner 1851 – 1929 was a German-born American inventor and businessman. He is best known for his development of the flat disc... More

Emile Berliner reaches 75 today

Emile Berliner reaches 75 today

Copy 3. Copyright Washington Post; reprinted by permission of the D.C. Public Library, [email protected].

Letter from Emile Berliner to Jacob Berliner, 1882 July 10

Letter from Emile Berliner to Jacob Berliner, 1882 July 10

Letter from Emile Berliner in Boston to Jacob Berliner. Formerly in mylar sleeve labeled: "Documents #4, Emile Berliner's letters (7) to his brother Jacob in Hannover, January through Oct. 1882." Written on Ame... More

Apparatus for producing sound-records: specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 689,349, dated 1901 December 17

Apparatus for producing sound-records: specification forming part of L...

Copy 1. "Emile Berliner, of Washington, District of Columbia, Assignor to United States Gramophone Company, of Washington, District of Columbia, a corporation of West Virginia." Diagrams and specification of Em... More

Patent application Patent 462,062 filed 1908 Oct. 3, allowed 1909 May 18

Patent application Patent 462,062 filed 1908 Oct. 3, allowed 1909 May ...

Title derived from notes written in pencil at top of application. Corrections in ink, p. 2 , 3. Accompanied by typewritten note addressed to Emile Berliner, dated June 2, 1909, from Eugene W. Johnson, "Solicito... More

HMV logo motion picture - Early photography, Public domain image

HMV logo motion picture - Early photography, Public domain image

Originally grouped in Brown Berliner photo box, item 24. List description: "HMV logo on paper." Mounted on 8.5 x 11 in. sheet of paper. Emile Berliner 1851 – 1929 was a German-born American inventor and busine... More

Workers posing around conveyor belt in Berliner's gramophone plant, Hanover, Germany

Workers posing around conveyor belt in Berliner's gramophone plant, Ha...

Originally housed in large envelope addressed to Joseph Sanders from S. Fridberg. Verso: "Gramophon Kniestr 18, Hannover." Emile Berliner 1851 – 1929 was a German-born American inventor and businessman. He is ... More

Letter from Emile Berliner to Jacob Berliner, 1882 July 10

Letter from Emile Berliner to Jacob Berliner, 1882 July 10

Letter from Emile Berliner in Boston to Jacob Berliner. Formerly in mylar sleeve labeled: "Documents #4, Emile Berliner's letters (7) to his brother Jacob in Hannover, January through Oct. 1882." Written on Ame... More

Scrap book motion picture - Public domain document scan of drawing

Scrap book motion picture - Public domain document scan of drawing

Scrapbook was probably compiled by Emile Berliner. Only excerpts have been digitized. Pages are empty except for 3. Article on cloud telegraphy is loose. Scrapbook is empty except for 3 pages relating to the Un... More

Patents booklet motion picture, Emile Berliner radio broadcasting collection

Patents booklet motion picture, Emile Berliner radio broadcasting coll...

"H'oenshein" ? handwritten on front cover. Pencil notations p.1, p. 5 , p. 15. Informally-bound booklet of various gramophone patents, diagrams, and specifications, including Emile Berliner's patents: 372,786; ... More

Portrait photo of Photograph album, ca. 1918-1923

Portrait photo of Photograph album, ca. 1918-1923

Album of personal photographs. Includes Berliner, family and friends. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Muddy Jim and other rhymes : 12 illustrated health jingles for children, picture book edition

Muddy Jim and other rhymes : 12 illustrated health jingles for childre...

Table of contents: "Rhymes by Emile Berliner, President Tuberculosis Society of Washington, D.C., pictures by J. A. Whiteford." Also printed on title page : "Learn every rhyme and be healthy all the time." Abov... More

Muddy Jim and other rhymes : 12 illustrated health jingles for children, picture book edition

Muddy Jim and other rhymes : 12 illustrated health jingles for childre...

Table of contents: "Rhymes by Emile Berliner, President Tuberculosis Society of Washington, D.C., pictures by J. A. Whiteford." Also printed on title page : "Learn every rhyme and be healthy all the time." Abov... More

Ruins of Berliner factory in Washington, destroyed by fire?

Ruins of Berliner factory in Washington, destroyed by fire?

Mounted on card frame. Emile Berliner 1851 – 1929 was a German-born American inventor and businessman. He is best known for his development of the flat disc record and the Gramophone. Berliner worked in the te... More

Cora Berliner? with group of women sitting on large rock

Cora Berliner? with group of women sitting on large rock

Picryl description: Public domain photograph group portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions. Emile Berliner 1851 – 1929 was a German-born American inventor and businessman. He is best known for his dev... More

View of Berliner Gramophone factory, workbench, electrical equipment and electrical wall panel

View of Berliner Gramophone factory, workbench, electrical equipment a...

Originally grouped in Brown Berliner photo box, item 8. List description: "Neg. no. 23456-5: factory shop electrical box and worktable?" Emile Berliner 1851 – 1929 was a German-born American inventor and busin... More

Emile Berliner and family - Public domain image related to music prformance, photograph

Emile Berliner and family - Public domain image related to music prfor...

Originally grouped in Brown Berliner photo box, item 15. Title taken from Brown Berliner photo box list.

Berliner's Gram-o-phone shop, 2315-2316 St. Catherine Street, Montreal, Canada

Berliner's Gram-o-phone shop, 2315-2316 St. Catherine Street, Montreal...

Verso: "Montreal, Ste. Catherine St." Emile Berliner 1851 – 1929 was a German-born American inventor and businessman. He is best known for his development of the flat disc record and the Gramophone. Berliner w... More

Bedroom of unidentified house, with Georgetown banner

Bedroom of unidentified house, with Georgetown banner

Emile Berliner 1851 – 1929 was a German-born American inventor and businessman. He is best known for his development of the flat disc record and the Gramophone. Berliner worked in the telegraph industry experim... More

109 Court Street Boston - A drawing of a building with a sign on it

109 Court Street Boston - A drawing of a building with a sign on it

Written on front: "Boston Mass 1879." Mounted in frame. Larger copy of item 120050110 Emile Berliner 1851 – 1929 was a German-born American inventor and businessman. He is best known for his development of the... More

Professor Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand Von Helmholtz, half-length portrait

Professor Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand Von Helmholtz, half-length portrait

Printed on front: "Professor Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand Von Helmholtz - Died at Berlin, Germany, September 8, 1894." Attached caption: "5b von Helmholtz." Printed in newspaper. Emile Berliner 1851 – 1929 was a G... More

Supplementary list of records, June 10th 1895
Photocopy of Zon-o-Phone advertisement

Photocopy of Zon-o-Phone advertisement

Photocopy of advertisement for Zon-o-phone talking machine from National Gram-o-phone Corporation.

Cora Berliner, half-length portrait, facing left

Cora Berliner, half-length portrait, facing left

Singed on front: "Bachrach 1917." Seal in front: "Bachrach, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington" Mounted in folder. Emile Berliner 1851 – 1929 was a German-born American inventor and businessman. He ... More

Emile Berliner with daughter Louise and grandson Robert Berliner Frank

Emile Berliner with daughter Louise and grandson Robert Berliner Frank

Written on front: "Glenora 1921". Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Letter from Emile Berliner to Roy M. Allen, 1926 Nov. 7
A tribute to Emile Berliner on the occasion of his seventy-fifth birthday

A tribute to Emile Berliner on the occasion of his seventy-fifth birth...

Copy 5. The board of directors of the Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis of the District of Columbia offer Berliner a tribute on his birthday.

Letter from Roy M. Allen to Emile Berliner, 1926 Oct. 23
Berliner will provides for health education

Berliner will provides for health education

Reprinted with permission from Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive Company, The Washington Post and washingtonpost.com.

Berliner funeral to be held today

Berliner funeral to be held today

Reprinted with permission from Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive Company, The Washington Post and washingtonpost.com.

Letter from Emile Berliner to Jacob Berliner, 1881 January 22

Letter from Emile Berliner to Jacob Berliner, 1881 January 22

Formerly in mylar sleeve with label: "Documents 3 : Emile Berliner's letters (3) from Boston to his brother Jacob in Hannover. Jan and March 1881. Letter by Arnold Simon 22 Aug 1881 for Emile while in Hannover."

Letter from Emile Berliner to Jacob Berliner, 1882 October 30

Letter from Emile Berliner to Jacob Berliner, 1882 October 30

Letter from Emile Berliner in Boston to Jacob Berliner. Formerly in mylar sleeve labeled: "Documents #4, Emile Berliner's letters (7) to his brother Jacob in Hannover, January through Oct. 1882." Written on Ame... More

Gramophone, & c.: specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 637,197, dated 1899 November 14

Gramophone, & c.: specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 637...

Includes 2 pages of diagrams. "Emile Berliner, of Washington, District of Columbia, assignor to the United States Gramophone Company, of same place." Diagrams and specifications for Emile Berliner's "new and us... More

Sound-record and method of making same: specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 689,350, dated 1901 December 17

Sound-record and method of making same: specification forming part of ...

Copy 1. "Emile Berliner, of Washington, District of Columbia, Assignor to United States Gramophone Company, of Washington, District of Columbia, a corporation of West Virginia." Diagrams and specifications for ... More

Joseph Sanders' diary, 1906 - Public domain document scan

Joseph Sanders' diary, 1906 - Public domain document scan

Entries are sporadic; many days are empty; title on diary is Koster's diary, 1906. Handwritten; a folded paper note is inserted into diary. Joseph Sander's (Emile Berliner's nephew) personal diary where he spea... More

Muddy Jim and other rhymes : 12 illustrated health jingles for children, picture book edition

Muddy Jim and other rhymes : 12 illustrated health jingles for childre...

Table of contents: "Rhymes by Emile Berliner, President Tuberculosis Society of Washington, D.C., pictures by J. A. Whiteford." Also printed on title page : "Learn every rhyme and be healthy all the time." Abov... More

Freeing the human voice from its inherent limitations

Freeing the human voice from its inherent limitations

Vol. 6, No. 2. An essay of Berliner's life and his accomplishments.

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