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."
Group portrait of Emile Berliner and others
Mounted on cardboard. Originally housed in Joseph Sanders Collection Box 5.
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 in mirrors - Public domain portrait print
Originally grouped in Brown Berliner photo box, item 19. Title taken from list description: "Emile Berliner in Mirrors"
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.)"
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
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
Emile Berliner, half-length portrait, standing in doorway, facing left
Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
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.
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.
Emile Berliner and veiled woman in automobile
Public domain photograph of an automobile, 1910s car, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
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 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.
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
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.)"
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, half-length portrait, wearing glasses
Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
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..."
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
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 in later years
Copy 1. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
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.
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.
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.
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"
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.
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.
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.
Blank piece of United States Gramophone Company standard letterhead
Emile Berliner listed as President, Jos. Auerbach listed as Secretary, Henry Adler listed as Treasurer. Company address: 1410 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, D.C. Blank piece of paper with United States Gra... More
Blank piece of United States Gramophone Company memo letterhead
Emile Berliner listed as President, Jos. Auerbach listed as Secretary, Henry Adler listed as Treasurer. Company address : 1410 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, D.C. Blank piece of notepaper with United State... More
Note on experiment, 1891 March? 18
Drawing of galvanometer with caption: "Will the heat passing through the cloth cause a current of E through galvanometer?"
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."
E. Berliner & staff of U. S. Gramophone Co
Originally grouped in Brown Berliner photo box, item 25. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Wonders motion picture, Emile Berliner radio broadcasting collection
Essay describing the wonders that are found in everyday occurrences of science principles. Typescript copy of original. Copy 1.
Sheet music Columbian anthem : dedicated to the Daughters of the Ameri...
Copy 1. Sheet music for the Columbian Anthem written by E. Berliner with words by W. J. Newton.
Emile Berliner motion picture, Emile Berliner radio broadcasting colle...
A brief biography of Emile Berliner.
Group photo in wilderness of Emile, Cora and Louise Berliner and other...
Verso: "Dear Hannah and Joe, This libel is sent because I paid for it. What is back of the group..." Postcard to Joseph Sanders.
Two photographs, front and back view of Elliott Cresson Medal presente...
Attached caption: "Elliot Cresson Medal given by the Franklin Institute to Emile Berliner in 1913." Both photographs mounted on one 8 1/2 x 11 in. sheet of paper.
Letter from Theodore Vail to Emile Berliner, 1918 March 4
Copy 1. Note written under date: "Should be reproduced in book? E. B." Letter to Emile Berliner from Theodore Vail, President of American Telephone and Telegraph Company, enumerating E.B.'s contributions to the... More
Emile and Joseph Berliner, shaking hands
Mounted on cardboard. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Emile Berliner feeding his grandson Robert Frank
Verso: Grandpa (Emile) Berliner & Bobby Frank on occasion of early visit to DC 1919?"
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
Emile Berliner standing in garden walkway
Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Emile Berliner standing with two women in garden walkway
Public domain photo of 19th-century portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Letter from Edgar Berliner to Emile Berliner, 1922 May 29
Letter written on Berliner Gram-o-phone Company Limited (Montreal) letterhead. This letter accompanied letter from Wm. Meadowcroft (5/26/1922), which Edgar sent along to his father. Letter from Edgar Berliner t... More
Envelope from correspondence between Edgar Berliner and Albert Bigelow...
Envelope return address: Bureau of Health Education, 1464 Columbia Road, Washington, D.C. Envelope that contained letter from Emile Berliner to Edgar Berliner, Edgar Berliner's letter to Albert Bigelow Paine, a... More
Letter from Wm. Meadowcroft to Edgar Berliner, 1922 May 26
Letter written on paper with the heading: "From the Laboratory of Thomas A. Edison, Orange, N.J." Letter from Wm. Meadowcroft to Edgar Berliner, thanking him for sending along a Berliner Gramophone Company Cata... More
Letter from Emile Berliner to Albert Leman, Boston Post, 1922 August 3
Letter from Emile Berliner responding to an article that referred to his work with telephone transmitters that appeared in the Boston Post in 1922.
Letter from John J. Carty of American Telephone and Telegraph Company ...
Letter soliciting Berliner's assistance in putting together a collection on the history of the telephone. Courtesy AT&T, AT&T Archives
Letter from W. L. Richards to Emile Berliner, 1926 Nov. 8
Holograph, signed.
Microphonic air-gap motion picture
Copy 2. Copy of typescript on letterhead bearing Emile Berliner's name and address. Details Berliner's participation in the invention of the microphone and how he arrived at the conclusion that it works on the ... More
Letter from W. L. Richards to Emile Berliner, 1926 Nov. 5
Holograph, signed.
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 d...
Originally housed in Illustrations folder. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
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.
Emile Berliner reaches 75 today
Copy 3. Copyright Washington Post; reprinted by permission of the D.C. Public Library, [email protected].
Berliner in front of microphone at WRC Broadcasting Station, Wash. D.C
Copy 1. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Letter from Roy M. Allen to Emile Berliner, 1926 Nov. 11
Handwritten postscript.
Emile Berliner, half-length portrait, seated in front of early microph...
Originally housed in Illustrations folder. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Emile Berliner, facing right, seated in front of early microphone
Originally housed in Illustrations folder. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Emile and Joseph? Berliner, portrait with unidentified man
Originally housed in Joseph Sanders Collection Box 5. Mounted on cardboard frame. verso: "Verpflichtungs-Schien. Fur die Ihen gelieferten Kohle- oder sog. Pigmentbilder ubernehme..."
New acoustic device shown by Berliner
Public domain scan of newspaper clippings. Free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.
The inventor of the microphone has a birthday party: Emile Berliner
Copy 2. Public domain scan of newspaper clippings. Free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.
Age-old problem solved, Emile Berliner radio broadcasting collection
Letterhead on paper: "Acoustic Tile Company, patentees and makers of Berliner's resonant walls." Publicity sheet promoting Berliner's acoustic cement cells to improve sound in halls.
P.T.A. will attack medical society in child fight
7th year, No. 88. The Washington D.C. Parent Teachers Association disagrees with decision of the District Medical Society to withhold address information of parents with children from the Bureau of Health Educa... More
Berliner acoustic wall cell wins in Philadelphia test
Reprinted with permission from Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive Company, The Washington Post and washingtonpost.com. Copyright 2002, Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive, The Washington Post and washingtonpo... More
Health Bureau ban on child pamphlet rouses Mrs. Rafter
The Washington D.C. Parent Teachers Association, headed by Mrs. Rafter, disagrees with decision of the District Medical Society to withhold address information of parents with children from the Bureau of Health... More
A new idea in acoustics, Emile Berliner radio broadcasting collection
Copy 1. Copyright Washington Post; reprinted by permission of the D.C. Public Library, [email protected].
Scientific group lauds Washington inventor
Acoustic tile invention is praised by scientists at the Drexel Institute. Copyright Washington Post; reprinted by permission of the D.C. Public Library
An achievement motion picture, Emile Berliner radio broadcasting colle...
Applauds Berliner for the development of the acoustic cement cell.
Berliner hits on new device for acoustics
Public domain scan of newspaper clippings. Free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.
Berliner's wishes for when he dies
Copy of handwritten note. Letterhead reads "Emile Berliner" with his address. Handwritten statement by Berliner detailing what kind of funeral he wishes and offering a closing note to his children and grandchildren.
Berliner is to fight for city's birth list
Emile Berliner vows to challenge the District Medical Societies' attempt to stop the furnishing of daily birth record to the Bureau of Health Education which uses that information to distribute pamphlets on chi... More
Contest develops over Berliner will
Reprinted with permission from Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive Company, The Washington Post and washingtonpost.com.
Emile Berliner motion picture - Newspaper, public domain, Library of C...
Copy 1. Reprinted with permission from Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive Company, The Washington Post and washingtonpost.com.
Silence on the air honor to Berliner, radio benefactor
Copyright Washington Post; reprinted by permission of the D.C. Public Library