Edison Records 1903 advertisement

1903 advertisement for Edison Records. Edison Record ad, showing cylinder & phonograph. 1903. Thomas A. Edison invented the phonograph, the first device for recording and playing back sound, in 1877. Edison Records was the one of the earliest record labels which pioneered recorded sound.

Scanned by Infrogmation from page of 1903 magazine.

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