Milton King, Louise Berliner King, Joseph Sanders and unidentified boy...
Verso: "Milton Louise King, Joe Sanders, boy?, al Erco, Photo by Byron, studio - 1712 Conn. Ave., Wash., D.C. National 1800" Emile Berliner 1851 – 1929 was a German-born American inventor and businessman. He i... More
![International Sweethearts of Rhythm [album cover]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn18/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTEvMDYvaW50ZXJuYXRpb25hbC1zd2VldGhlYXJ0cy1vZi1yaHl0aG0tYWxidW0tY292ZXItZDNlODBmLTEwMjQuanBn/40/40/webp "International Sweethearts of Rhythm [album cover]")
International Sweethearts of Rhythm [album cover]
Public domain photograph of musical performance, musicians, music, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
The Multiphone motion picture - Early photography, Public domain image
Originally grouped in Brown Berliner photo box, item 14. List description: "Neg. no. 23456-1: six disc playback system" Emile Berliner 1851 – 1929 was a German-born American inventor and businessman. He is bes... More
Bell's Magneto system 1876 - Public domain document scan of drawing
Note is attached to card: "11. Bell's Magneto system 1876." Card contains cropping marks in pencil; may have been used as a book illustration. Card with drawing of Bell's Magneto system, June 1876.
E.B. in the room where he invented the microphone in 1877
Attached caption: "E.B. in the room where he invented the Microphone in 1877." Written on caption: "49 years later."
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, ...
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
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"
Trading room of the New York Cotton Exchange
Copy 3. Attached caption: "The trading room in the New York Cotton Exchange was equipped with the acoustic cells and immediately the voices of about 150 brokers shouting orders were clarified to a noticeable ex... More
Louise Berliner and Milton King, in later years, in formal dress
Verso: "Louise & Milton King." 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 i... More
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
Group portrait of Emile Berliner and others
Mounted on cardboard. Originally housed in Joseph Sanders Collection Box 5.
Store in Washington where Berliner clerked as a young man
Attached caption: "Store in Washington where B. clerked." 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 Gr... More
Emile Berliner with the Health Committee including Dr. Harvey W. Wiley...
Attached caption: "Emile Berliner with the Health Committee including Fr. Harvey W. Wiley and Dr. Geo. M. Kober at a class of underfed children."
Emile Berliner's residence before remodeling
Verso: "1458 Columbia Rd. (E. Berliner Residence) Before remodeling." Mounted on cardboard. Originally housed in Joseph Sanders Collection Box 5. Emile Berliner 1851 – 1929 was a German-born American inventor ... More
Emile Berliner in laboratory working on gramophone disc
Copy 2. Verso: "Credit Line Rice Montreal (Please see that Credit Line is used when print is published otherwise publishing rights are reserved.)"
Berliner House at 1458 Columbia Road
Copy 1. Verso: "1458 Columbia Rd". 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 work... More
Eldridge Johnson's machine shop, abandoned
Verso: "Machine shop of Eldridge R. Johnson in Camden. In this structure the first models of the Victor Talking machine were built." Emile Berliner 1851 – 1929 was a German-born American inventor and businessm... More
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
Two exposures of Emile Berliner holding child, standing in front of au...
Originally housed in Joseph Sanders Collection Box 5. Public domain photograph of a car, automobile, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
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
Machinery in Berliner's gramophone plant, Hanover, Germany
Originally housed in large envelope addressed to Joseph Sanders from S. Fridberg. Copy 2. Verso: "Mixing materials - Hanover. Emile Berliner 1851 – 1929 was a German-born American inventor and businessman. He ... More
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
Heinrich Hertz, head-and-shoulders portrait, made from lithograph
Attached caption: "Heinrich Hertz of Germany who was the first to demonstrate that when an electric spark jumps through the air it causes electric waves in the ether similar to waves in water when a stone is th... More
Window display of the T. Eaton Co. Ltd. Toronto
Attached note: "Window display of the T. Eaton Co. Ltd. Toronto, (in connection with record pressing exhibit) Explanatory cards are placed on each item. At the left is shown a matrix. Below is a square of the r... More
Emile Berliner, half-length portrait, standing in doorway, facing left
Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Cora Berliner, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing slightly ...
Originally housed in Joseph Sanders Collection Box 5. Stamped Clinedinst Studio. Mounted in folder labeled on front: "Clinedinst Studio, 733 14th St N.W., Washington, D.C." Emile Berliner 1851 – 1929 was a Ger... More
Essay on the merging of Bell's magnetic receiver with Berliner's batte...
Typescript. Brief essay describes how the merging of Alexander Graham Bell's magnetic receiver with Emile Berliner's battery transmitter created a product which has not been improved upon to the date the essay ... More
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
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
Berliner home motion picture - Early photography, Public domain image
Mounted on board. 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 telegra... More
Cora Berliner having tea with unidentified group
Verso: " Cora Adler Berliner (Mrs. Emile)". 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. Berl... More
Emile Berliner, half-length portrait, facing left
Originally housed in Joseph Sanders Collection Box 5. Mounted on large presentation card labeled "Bachrach & Bro, Baltimore, Md. Washington D.C.
Poem in German motion picture, Emile Berliner radio broadcasting colle...
Handwritten. Public domain scan of a poetry manuscript, poem, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.
Emile Berliner and veiled woman in automobile
Public domain photograph of an automobile, 1910s car, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Microphone of Caveat, April 14, 1877, with mouthpiece added
Title taken from attached caption: "Microphone of Caveat April 14, 1877 with mouthpiece added." Verso: "Caveat instrument, April 14, 1877." Emile Berliner 1851 – 1929 was a German-born American inventor and bu... More
View of Berliner Gramophone factory, workers assembling or testing Gra...
Originally grouped in Brown Berliner photo box, item 9. List description: "Neg. no. 23456-10: shop assembly of machines with women and cubby holes." Emile Berliner 1851 – 1929 was a German-born American invent... More
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
Hand-cranked gramophone with wooden base
Mounted on card. Printed on front of card: "Bishop. 905 Penna. Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. Emile Berliner 1851 – 1929 was a German-born American inventor and businessman. He is best known for his development ... More
Microphone of March 4, 1877 - An old photo of a spinning clock on a ta...
Attached caption: "Microphone of March 4, 1877, used in lawsuits in 1879. Still transmitting today the ticking of a watch and every other sound." Emile Berliner 1851 – 1929 was a German-born American inventor ... More
Card of Constantin Fahlberg, Emile Berliner radio broadcasting collect...
Note attached to card reads "3." followed by the statement in the summary field. Card of Constantin Fahlberg (afterwards discoverer of Saccharine) for whom Berliner worked in 1875. The card identifies him as an... More
Emile Berliner, bust portrait, facing slightly right
Mounted on cardboard. Originally housed in Joseph Sanders Collection Box 5.
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.
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
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
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
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
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 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.
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
Technical Institute (Technische Hochschule) Hanover, Germany
Copy 2. Attached caption: "contains a large room which had been abandoned for lecture use because reverberations were audible for several seconds after words were spoken. When a portion of the walls had been co... More
Berliner's battery system 1877 - Public domain document scan of drawin...
Note attached to card: "12. Berliner's battery system 1877." Notes on back of card indicate that it may have been used as a book illustration. Card contains drawing of Berliner's battery system (microphone), April 1877.
Berliner acid baths motion picture
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a machine, industrial equipment, engine, generator, free to use, no copyright restrictions. Emile Berliner 1851 – 1929 was a German-born American inventor and bu... More
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, half-length portrait, wearing glasses
Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
George O. Squire, half-length portrait, in military uniform
Written on front: "Gen. Squire, inventor of Wired Wireless, chapter XXV, George O. Squire, Major General, U.S.A. Rtd." Emile Berliner 1851 – 1929 was a German-born American inventor and businessman. He is best... More
Portrait of Emile Berliner - Public domain portrait print
Mounted on card. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Alexander Graham Bell, half-length portrait
Written on front: "Bell." Verso: "Alexander Graham Bell." 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 Gr... More
Emile Berliner and others, including boy and man in uniform
Title taken from Brown Berliner photo box list. Originally grouped in Brown Berliner photo box, item 23.
Emile Berliner in laboratory working on disc, looking up from desk
Verso: "Credit Line Rice Montreal (Please see that Credit Line is used when print is published otherwise publishing rights are reserved.)"
Berliner home, front view - Early photography, Public domain image
Picryl description: Public domain image of a residential building, house, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions. Emile Berliner 1851 – 1929 was a German-born American inventor ... More
Emile Berliner's office in the Bureau of Health Education
Attached caption: "Bureau of Health Education built by Mr. Berliner in 1924. Mr Berliner's Office." Emile Berliner 1851 – 1929 was a German-born American inventor and businessman. He is best known for his deve... More
Group portrait, with Cora Berliner, all in formal dress
Copy 3. 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 record and th... More
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.
Packing Room, Berliner Gramophone Co
Verso: "Packing Room, Berliner Gramophone Co, 5/11/99, 10th and Lombard, Reproduced from the collection of the Library of Congress." Emile Berliner 1851 – 1929 was a German-born American inventor and businessm... More
Berliner family singing into early disk recording machine
Verso: "May 15/98, Berliner Family, Reproduced from the collection of the Library of Congress." Emile Berliner 1851 – 1929 was a German-born American inventor and businessman. He is best known for his developm... More
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
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
Workers and machinery in Berliner's gramophone plant, Hanover, Germany
Originally housed in large envelope addressed to Joseph Sanders from S. Fridberg. Emile Berliner 1851 – 1929 was a German-born American inventor and businessman. He is best known for his development of the fla... More
E. B. in U. S. National Museum holding the microphone used April 8, 18...
On front: "Underwood & Underwood, Inc. Washington". Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Portrait of Emile Berliner as a young man
Mounted on card. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Worker in Berliner Factory - Early photography, Public domain image
Public domain photograph of laboratory, scientist, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Emile Berliner 1851 – 1929 was a German-born American inventor and businessman. He is best k... More
Emile Berliner, in later years, reading letter on porch
Originally housed in Joseph Sanders Collection Box 5. Mounted on cardboard. Verso: "Steig & Brown, Inc. Commercial Photographers, Blue Printing, 931 F..."
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
Berliner Gram. Co., 10th & Lombard
Verso: "Berliner Gram. Co., 10th & Lombard, 7/16/98, Reproduced from the collection of the Library of Congress." Emile Berliner 1851 – 1929 was a German-born American inventor and businessman. He is best known... More
Street in Emile Berliner's childhood neighborhood, Hanover, Germany
Attached caption: "7. B's playground when a boy in the city of Hanover." Verso: "7. Old street in Hannover near which Berliner was born." Emile Berliner 1851 – 1929 was a German-born American inventor and busi... More
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
Title taken from Brown Berliner photo box list. Originally grouped in Brown Berliner photo box, item 17.
View of Berliner Gramophone factory, worker with unassembled Gramophon...
Originally grouped in Brown Berliner photo box, item 12. List description: "Neg. no. 23456-7: "trademark" machine storage at factory?" Emile Berliner 1851 – 1929 was a German-born American inventor and busines... More
Emile Berliner, multiple portrait, seated at table
Verso: "The Myers Studios 1521 Boardwalk, Atlantic City, N. J. Order Duplicates by this Number 1679" Mounted on post card.
Louise and Robert Berliner Frank, on grass, beside brick building
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
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 photogra...
Originally housed in Joseph Sanders Collection Box 5. Mounted on card. Smaller print of item 120010303.
View of Berliner factory, large geared machinery and conveyor belt
Originally grouped in Brown Berliner photo box, item 6. List description: "Neg. no. 23456-4: factory shop?" Emile Berliner 1851 – 1929 was a German-born American inventor and businessman. He is best known for ... More
Emile Berliner, Cora(?), and others in a wicker chair
Originally housed in Joseph Sanders Collection Box 5. Small print of item 120010218. Stamped: "Metcalf? Palm Beach"
Counter-weighted cutter motion picture
Originally grouped in Brown Berliner photo box, item 5. 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 Gram... More
E.B. in 1872 motion picture - Public domain portrait print
Written on front: "1872." Attached caption: "17. E.B. in 1872." Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Emile Berliner ca. 1875 - Public domain portrait photograph
Title taken from Brown Berliner photo box list. Originally grouped in Brown Berliner photo box, item 21.
Photograph of Gardiner Greene Hubbard made in 1876
Title taken from attached caption: "Photograph of Gardiner Greene Hubbard made in 1876." Emile Berliner 1851 – 1929 was a German-born American inventor and businessman. He is best known for his development of ... More
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
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
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
Emile Berliner, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left
Mounted on card. Verso: "Emile Berliner e. 1881." Printed on front: "Bishop. 905 Penna. Ave., N.W. Washington, D.C."
Letter from Emile Berliner to Jacob Berliner, 1882 January 10
Written on American Bell Telephone Company letterhead (memorandum). Formerly in mylar sleeve labeled: " Documents #4, Emile Berliner's letters (7) to his brother Jacob in Hannover, January through Oct. 1882." L... More
Note, 1883 Nov. 29 - Public domain document scan of drawing
Sheet contains drawing of apparatus. Notes on a glass globe into which a carbon tube is stuck onto a wooden base. Oxygen is put into globe when the carbon is made red hot.
Note on experiment with candle, 1884 Nov. 20?
Note detailing experiment with a candle, metal tube and asbestos diaphragm.
Note on siphoning gas jet, 1884 May 24
Letterhead on paper: "Washington Gas Light Company." Idea of siphoning a gas jet in a street lamp.
Note on broken-point microphone, 1884 March 11
Details experiment using a broken-point microphone.
Note on battery experiment, 1884 Feb. 6
Details experiment with electric battery.
Two photographs of early Berliner engraver and gramophone
Verso: "Please return this, EB, First Gramophone reproducing machine, used at the Franklin Institute, Phia, May 16. 1888." Bottom photograph is copy 2 of 120040107. Emile Berliner 1851 – 1929 was a German-born... More