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THE PHONOSCOPE
January-February.. 1S97
"COLUMBIA"
THE SYNONYM OF SUPERIORITY
HE EXECUTIVE OFFICES OF THE COLUMBIA PHONOGRAPH COMPANY are now located
in the spacious buildings, //JJ, 1157 and 1159 Broadway, ATew York City, the largest and finest establishment of its kind in the world. Ever)' modern facility for manufacturing and selling everything in the Talking-Machine line. Promptness and care in attending to orders are special features of our immense system. We give the same attention to orders for one outfit 07 one cylinder as to orders for one thousand outfits or cylindeis.
GRAPHOPHONES : : : AND PHONOGRAPHS
For the Home For Public Exhibition
For the Store For Office Use
For Pleasure For Profit For Instruction
The Columbia Graphophone
The most marvelous production in the art ! Compact, simple, durable and attractive. Records and reproduces with astonishing perfection. Suitable for home entertainment or public exhibition. Not a ''Cheap Talking Machine," but a superb Talking Machine cheap. Driven by clockwork or electric motor.
Price, $25 and upward
Complete Outfits from $35 upward.
The "Spring=Slot " Graphophone
YOU WIND IT/ A prince of money earners. More profit in proportion to expense than an) form of slot machine on the market. Only expense for maintenance is the purchase of new records occasionally. Mechanism simple and reliable, reproducing qualities unsurpassed. Splendid for stores, depots, hotel corridors — anywhere the crowd passes. Great trade bringer for stores. No electricity needed. Investigate it.
Only $50
"Columbia Records are Best!
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Do you use them ? You should ! We make and sell more records than all other manufacturers and dealers combined. We couldn't do it if "Columbia Records'' were not THE BEST. We run our record-making department twenty-four hours a day. Have to do it to keep up with our orders. Dealers who sell our records report remarkable increase in trade and are continually ordering more. A sample order will convince you if you do not already know
" COLUMBIA RECORDS ARE BEST!"
Projecting flachines and Films
THE PHANTOSCOPE. — A projecting machine suitable for exhibition in large cities or small towns and villages. Calcium or electric light may be used. Simple and satisfactory. Steady pictures, clear views. A Phantoscope and Graphophone make an exhibition combination that will "coin "money! Catalogue /ree.
FILMS.— Kor Kinetoscopes or Projecting Machines. Splendid subjects, clearlv defined pictures, superb examples of photographic art. Send for list and prices.
GET OUR ILLUSTRATED DESCRIPTIVE CIRCULARS OF GRAPHOPHONES, PHONOGRAPHS, RECORDS, AND SUPPLIES. MAILED FREE ON APPLICATION.
COLUMBIA PHONOGRAPH COMPANY -department *,»
1155, 1157, and 1159 BROADWAY, New York City 919 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D. C. 110 East Baltimore Street, Baltimore, Md
720 and 722 Olive Street, St. Louis, Mo.