Edison's Phonograph. An early printed flyer for a demonstration of 'The Wonderful Talking Machine, Edison's Latest Phonograph', at Victoria Hall, Ilkley, [Yorkshire], Friday & Saturday, Sept 5th & 6th, 1890, printed by Paul Bros, Southampton, 4 pp. printed flyer on pink paper, the first page with a wood-engraved illustration showing Edison's phonograph in use in the press gallery during the Handel Festival at the Crystal Palace, further related adverts and another wood-engraved illustration on pages 2-4, torn with loss at head affecting all 4 pages, slim 8vo, together with a printed broadside for an event at Binbrook Temperance Hall, Tuesday 10 January 1888, letterpress broadside printed in red-brown, for a concert and, after the concert, Professor W.J. Jarley's 'Exhibition of his unrivalled Living Waxworks', the printed date '3rd' changed by hand to '10th', 1 page, 29 x 22 cm (Quantity: 2) Introduced in 1877, Edison created a machine with two needles, one for recording and one for playback. An early piece of phonograph ephemera. The 'Living Waxworks' exhibition seems to have gained some notoriety at the end of the nineteenth century when performed by a Mrs Jarley and her son, Ebenezer Jarley. This may be a slightly earlier incarnation of the same show of tableaux vivants.
Edison's Phonograph. An early printed flyer for a demonstration of 'The Wonderful Talking Machine, Edison's Latest Phonograph', at Victoria Hall, Ilkley, [Yorkshire], Friday & Saturday, Sept 5th & 6th, 1890, printed by Paul Bros, Southampton, 4 pp. printed flyer on pink paper, the first page with a wood-engraved illustration showing Edison's phonograph in use in the press gallery during the Handel Festival at the Crystal Palace, further related adverts and another wood-engraved illustration on pages 2-4, torn with loss at head affecting all 4 pages, slim 8vo, together with a printed broadside for an event at Binbrook Temperance Hall, Tuesday 10 January 1888, letterpress broadside printed in red-brown, for a concert and, after the concert, Professor W.J. Jarley's 'Exhibition of his unrivalled Living Waxworks', the printed date '3rd' changed by hand to '10th', 1 page, 29 x 22 cm (Quantity: 2) Introduced in 1877, Edison created a machine with two needles, one for recording and one for playback. An early piece of phonograph ephemera. The 'Living Waxworks' exhibition seems to have gained some notoriety at the end of the nineteenth century when performed by a Mrs Jarley and her son, Ebenezer Jarley. This may be a slightly earlier incarnation of the same show of tableaux vivants.
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