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Collection Summary
Title | Emile Berliner collection, 1871-1965 |
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Inclusive Dates | 1871-1965 |
Bulk Dates | 1871-1930 |
Creator | Berliner, Emile, 1851-1929 |
Extent (Textual Materials) | 41 boxes (approximately 1,000 items) |
Extent (Photographic Prints) | 232 photographic prints : black and white, 1 color ; 10 x 13 inches and smaller |
Extent (Photographic Negatives) | 29 negatives : black and white ; 8 x 10 inches and smaller |
Extent (Sound Recordings) | over 400 sound discs, including zinc, copper, celluloid, rubber, shellac, and vinyl pressings and masters, in various speeds, and in sizes ranging from 5 to 12 inches in diameter |
Extent (Motion Pictures) | 1 film reel of 1 (12 feet) : silent, black-and-white ; 16 mm. nitrate |
Extent (Artifacts) | over 100 items, chiefly telephone, gramophone, and laboratory equipment, with 7 acoustic insulating panels and material samples, all made of various materials and in various sizes |
Language | Collection materials are in English, with some items in German publication titles. |
Location | Recorded Sound Reference Center, Motion Picture, Broadcasting & Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Location of Textual and Graphic Materials: RPA 00832-00855 (boxes 1-2, 4-17, 31-38); RPB 00097-00109 (boxes 18-30); RPC 00082 (box OS 2); RPD 00035-00037 (boxes OS 1, OS 3-OS 4) |
Summary | Unpublished and published textual materials, photographs, sound recordings, scrapbooks, artifacts, and a motion picture documenting the life and work of the German-born immigrant to America who invented the gramophone, the flat disc recording, the radio microphone, acoustic tile, and an early version of the helicopter. Included are unpublished and experimental gramophone records dating from the 1890s, some of them featuring the voices of Berliner and various family members, as well as recordings published by Berliner's gramophone companies in the U.S., Canada, and Germany. |
Finding Aid Permalink | Cite or bookmark this finding aid as: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mbrsrs/eadmbrs.rs011001 |
LCCN Permalink | LC Online Catalog record for this collection: http://lccn.loc.gov/2011622951 |