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THE PHONOSCOPE
May, 1897
"COLUMBIA"
The Synonym of Superiority
A^HK EXECUTIVE OFFICES OF THE COLUMBIA PHONOGRAPH COMPANY are now located in the spacious buildings, 7/55, 1157 and /ijg Broadway, New York City, the largest and finest establishment of its kind in the world. Every modern facility for manufacturing and selling evert king 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 or one cylinder as to orders for one thousand outfits or cylinders.
GRAPHOPHONES : : : AND PHONOGRAPHS
For the Home For the Store For Pleasure
For Public Exhibition For Office Work 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 any 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 bringsr 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 manufac
turers and dealers combined. We couldn't do it if "Columbia Records'' were not THK 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 continually ordering more. A sample order will convince you if you do not already know "Columbia Records are Best !"
The Latest and Most Popular flusic
Operatic choruses by a well trained company have been recorded with splendid results. This is something never before attempted Every owner of a talking machine should have these records.
Projecting Machines and Films
THE PHANTOSCOPE.-A projecting machine suitable for exhibition in large cities or small towns and villages Calcium or etectric light may _be used. Simple and satisfactory. Steady pictures, clear views. A Phantoscope and Graphophone make an exhibition combination that will coin
FILrtsf-^or K^tc^ctpes^or Projecting Machines. Splendid subjects, clearly defined pictures, superb examples of photographic art. Send for list
and prices.
A new photograph projecting machine which will be Ike cheapest, the mod easily operated and altogether the most satisfactory on the market about out. Dealers and those contemplating purchase should write for information.
GET OUR ILLUSTRATED DESCRIPTIVE CIRCULARS OF GRAPHOPHONES, PHONOGRAPHS, RECORDS, AND SUPPLIES. MAILED FREE ON APPLICATION.
COLUMBIA PHONOGRAPH COMPANY
"DEPARTMENT AT
NEW YORK. 1155. 1157 and 1159 Broadway
WASHINGTON. D. C. 919 Pennsylvania Avenue
BALTIMORE. Md.. 110 East Baltimore St.
ST. LOUIS. MO.. 720-722 Olive St.
PHILADELPHIA. Pa.. 1032 Chestnut St.