First Bell Telephone motion picture
Attached caption: "10. First Bell Telephone, June 1875." Emile Berliner 1851 – 1929 was a German-born American inventor and businessman. He is best known for his development of the flat disc record and the Gra... 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
Patents booklet motion picture
"H'oenshein" ? handwritten on front cover. Pencil notations p.1, p. 5 , p. 15. Informally-bound booklet of various gramophone patents, diagrams, and specifications, including Emile Berliner's patents: 372,786; ... More
Early hand wind machine - Early photography, Public domain image
Title taken from Brown Berliner photo box list. Originally grouped in Brown Berliner photo box, item 2. Emile Berliner 1851 – 1929 was a German-born American inventor and businessman. He is best known for his ... More
Louise Berliner, full-length portrait, as a child
Mounted on board. Written on front: "CM Gilbert" Verso: "Louise, High Art Photography, Gilbert Studios, 926 Chestnut St., Philada, cor. F & Eleventh St., Washington, D.C., Atlantic City, N.J." Emile Berliner 1... More
Gramophone patents: U. S. Gramophone Co
Handwritten notations throughout. Correction page tipped in at beg. Patent 548, 623. Some blank pages between patents and facing diagrams. Gramophone patents bound informally together. Includes Berliner patents... More
Gramophone litigation motion picture
Hardcover. Title taken from spine. Contains compiled material on Victor Talking Machine Co. and U.S. Gramophone Co. vs. American Graphophone Co.; American Graphophone Co. v. National Gramophone Co. and Frank Se... More
Scrap book motion picture - Public domain portrait drawing
Scrapbook was probably compiled by Emile Berliner. Only excerpts have been digitized. Pages are empty except for 3. Article on cloud telegraphy is loose. Scrapbook is empty except for 3 pages relating to the Un... More
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.
Early Berliner recording machine built into large wooden stand
Emile Berliner 1851 – 1929 was a German-born American inventor and businessman. He is best known for his development of the flat disc record and the Gramophone. Berliner worked in the telegraph industry experim... More
Portrait of Emile Berliner in later years
Copy 1. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
E. Berliner's gramophone motion picture
Advertisement of Berliner's gramophone contains girl sitting while playing gramophone. Verso contains handwritten list of band music and recitations, July 29, 1895.
Journal, Cora A. Berliner - Public domain portrait drawing
Handwritten; only 38 p. contain writing; 8 loose p. inserted into journal. Contains inserted pencil drawing of Dr. Thaene by Emile Berliner. Cora A. Berliner's journal of her family's trip on board a steamer to... More
Patents booklet motion picture
"H'oenshein" ? handwritten on front cover. Pencil notations p.1, p. 5 , p. 15. Informally-bound booklet of various gramophone patents, diagrams, and specifications, including Emile Berliner's patents: 372,786; ... More
Emile Berliner reaches 75 today
Copy 3. Copyright Washington Post; reprinted by permission of the D.C. Public Library, [email protected]
Letter from Emile Berliner to Jacob Berliner, 1882 July 10
Letter from Emile Berliner in Boston to Jacob Berliner. Formerly in mylar sleeve labeled: "Documents #4, Emile Berliner's letters (7) to his brother Jacob in Hannover, January through Oct. 1882." Written on Ame... More
Apparatus for producing sound-records: specification forming part of L...
Copy 1. "Emile Berliner, of Washington, District of Columbia, Assignor to United States Gramophone Company, of Washington, District of Columbia, a corporation of West Virginia." Diagrams and specification of Em... More
Patent application Patent 462,062 filed 1908 Oct. 3, allowed 1909 May ...
Title derived from notes written in pencil at top of application. Corrections in ink, p. 2 , 3. Accompanied by typewritten note addressed to Emile Berliner, dated June 2, 1909, from Eugene W. Johnson, "Solicito... More
Group portrait of Emile Berliner and others
Mounted on cardboard. Originally housed in Joseph Sanders Collection Box 5.
Samuel? Halton?, half-length portrait, facing left
Verso: "Samuel? Halton?" Emile Berliner 1851 – 1929 was a German-born American inventor and businessman. He is best known for his development of the flat disc record and the Gramophone. Berliner worked in the ... More
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"
Microphonic contacts motion picture
Emile Berliner 1851 – 1929 was a German-born American inventor and businessman. He is best known for his development of the flat disc record and the Gramophone. Berliner worked in the telegraph industry experim... More
Patents booklet motion picture
"H'oenshein" ? handwritten on front cover. Pencil notations p.1, p. 5 , p. 15. Informally-bound booklet of various gramophone patents, diagrams, and specifications, including Emile Berliner's patents: 372,786; ... More
Patents booklet motion picture
"H'oenshein" ? handwritten on front cover. Pencil notations p.1, p. 5 , p. 15. Informally-bound booklet of various gramophone patents, diagrams, and specifications, including Emile Berliner's patents: 372,786; ... More
Motorized gramophone motion picture
Mounted on card. Originally housed in Joseph Sanders Collection Box 5. Emile Berliner 1851 – 1929 was a German-born American inventor and businessman. He is best known for his development of the flat disc reco... More
Patents booklet motion picture
"H'oenshein" ? handwritten on front cover. Pencil notations p.1, p. 5 , p. 15. Informally-bound booklet of various gramophone patents, diagrams, and specifications, including Emile Berliner's patents: 372,786; ... More
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.
James J. Storrow, half-length portrait, facing left
Attached caption: "James J. Storrow, eminent patent counsel for the Bell Telephone interests who defended the Bell and Berliner patents." Emile Berliner 1851 – 1929 was a German-born American inventor and busi... More
Microphonic contacts by opaque illumination
Originally housed in envelop labeled: "Roy M. Allen 1926." Verso: "Roy M. Allen, Bloomfield, N.J., Photomicrograph, subject: Microphonic Contacts by opaque illumination. No. C-81, magnification 1125x." Emile B... More
Gramophone: specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 372,786, ...
Diagram and specifications. Original application filed May 4, 1887, Serial No. 237,060. Divided and this application filed September 26, 1887. Serial No. 250,721. Patent detailing Emile Berliner's "useful impro... More
Gramophone patents: U. S. Gramophone Co
Handwritten notations throughout. Correction page tipped in at beg. Patent 548, 623. Some blank pages between patents and facing diagrams. Gramophone patents bound informally together. Includes Berliner patents... More
Dr. Ernest C. Schroeder, three-quarter length portrait, facing slightl...
Verso: "Dr. E.C. Schroeder." Attached caption: "Dr. Ernest C. Schroeder, biologist, Director U.S. Animal Experiment Station, Bethesda Md. Whose friendship and co-operation Berliner enjoyed for many years." Emi... More
The Bell Magneto telephone in 1877
Title taken from attached caption: "The Bell Magneto telephone in 1877." Emile Berliner 1851 – 1929 was a German-born American inventor and businessman. He is best known for his development of the flat disc re... More
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."
Muddy Jim and other rhymes : 12 illustrated health jingles for childre...
Table of contents: "Rhymes by Emile Berliner, President Tuberculosis Society of Washington, D.C., pictures by J. A. Whiteford." Also printed on title page : "Learn every rhyme and be healthy all the time." Abov... More
The gramophone: etching the human voice
Copy 1. Title on cover: "Paper read before the Franklin Institute, May 16, 1888, on the gramophone by its inventor, Emile Berliner." Reprint of published speech by Berliner delivered to the Franklin Institute o... More
Photograph album, ca. 1918-1923
Album of personal photographs. Includes Berliner, family and friends. Public domain scan - children, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Patents booklet motion picture
"H'oenshein" ? handwritten on front cover. Pencil notations p.1, p. 5 , p. 15. Informally-bound booklet of various gramophone patents, diagrams, and specifications, including Emile Berliner's patents: 372,786; ... More
HMV logo motion picture - Early photography, Public domain image
Originally grouped in Brown Berliner photo box, item 24. List description: "HMV logo on paper." Mounted on 8.5 x 11 in. sheet of paper. Emile Berliner 1851 – 1929 was a German-born American inventor and busine... More
Letter from Emile Berliner to Jacob Berliner, 1882 July 10
Letter from Emile Berliner in Boston to Jacob Berliner. Formerly in mylar sleeve labeled: "Documents #4, Emile Berliner's letters (7) to his brother Jacob in Hannover, January through Oct. 1882." Written on Ame... More
Scrap book motion picture - Public domain portrait drawing
Scrapbook was probably compiled by Emile Berliner. Only excerpts have been digitized. Pages are empty except for 3. Article on cloud telegraphy is loose. Scrapbook is empty except for 3 pages relating to the Un... More
Patents booklet motion picture
"H'oenshein" ? handwritten on front cover. Pencil notations p.1, p. 5 , p. 15. Informally-bound booklet of various gramophone patents, diagrams, and specifications, including Emile Berliner's patents: 372,786; ... More
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.
Louise Berliner, three-quarter length portrait, facing forward, wearin...
Public domain scan of a female portrait, woman, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Emile Berliner 1851 – 1929 was a German-born American inventor and businessman. He is best know... More
109 Court Street Boston where both Bell and Berliner worked
Title taken from attached caption: "14. 109 Court Street Boston where both Bell and Berliner worked." Emile Berliner 1851 – 1929 was a German-born American inventor and businessman. He is best known for his de... More
Production of Sound Records : specifications forming part of Letters P...
"Joseph W. Jones of New York, N.Y. assignor to himself, and Joseph A. Vincent, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Diagram and specifications detailing Joseph Jones' improvements in the production of sound records.
Gramophone patents: U. S. Gramophone Co
Handwritten notations throughout. Correction page tipped in at beg. Patent 548, 623. Some blank pages between patents and facing diagrams. Gramophone patents bound informally together. Includes Berliner patents... More
Patents booklet motion picture
"H'oenshein" ? handwritten on front cover. Pencil notations p.1, p. 5 , p. 15. Informally-bound booklet of various gramophone patents, diagrams, and specifications, including Emile Berliner's patents: 372,786; ... More
Photograph album, ca. 1918-1923
Album of personal photographs. Includes Berliner, family and friends. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Berliner family motion picture - Public domain portrait photograph
Originally housed in Joseph Sanders Collection Box 5. Mounted on card. Smaller print of item 120010303.
Scrap book motion picture - Public domain portrait drawing
Scrapbook was probably compiled by Emile Berliner. Only excerpts have been digitized. Pages are empty except for 3. Article on cloud telegraphy is loose. Scrapbook is empty except for 3 pages relating to the Un... More
Scrap book motion picture - Public domain portrait drawing
Scrapbook was probably compiled by Emile Berliner. Only excerpts have been digitized. Pages are empty except for 3. Article on cloud telegraphy is loose. Scrapbook is empty except for 3 pages relating to the Un... More
Berliner's Gram-o-phone shop, 2315-2316 St. Catherine Street, Montreal...
Verso: "Montreal, Ste. Catherine St." Emile Berliner 1851 – 1929 was a German-born American inventor and businessman. He is best known for his development of the flat disc record and the Gramophone. Berliner w... More
Ruins of Berliner factory in Washington, destroyed by fire?
Mounted on card frame. Emile Berliner 1851 – 1929 was a German-born American inventor and businessman. He is best known for his development of the flat disc record and the Gramophone. Berliner worked in the te... More
Cora Berliner? with group of women sitting on large rock
Picryl description: Public domain photograph group portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions. Emile Berliner 1851 – 1929 was a German-born American inventor and businessman. He is best known for his dev... More
Bedroom of unidentified house, with Georgetown banner
Emile Berliner 1851 – 1929 was a German-born American inventor and businessman. He is best known for his development of the flat disc record and the Gramophone. Berliner worked in the telegraph industry experim... More
View of Berliner Gramophone factory, workbench, electrical equipment a...
Originally grouped in Brown Berliner photo box, item 8. List description: "Neg. no. 23456-5: factory shop electrical box and worktable?" Emile Berliner 1851 – 1929 was a German-born American inventor and busin... More
Emile Berliner and family - Public domain portrait photograph
Originally grouped in Brown Berliner photo box, item 15. Title taken from Brown Berliner photo box list.
109 Court Street Boston - Public domain historical image
Written on front: "Boston Mass 1879." Mounted in frame. Larger copy of item 120050110 Emile Berliner 1851 – 1929 was a German-born American inventor and businessman. He is best known for his development of the... More
Professor Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand Von Helmholtz, half-length portrait
Printed on front: "Professor Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand Von Helmholtz - Died at Berlin, Germany, September 8, 1894." Attached caption: "5b von Helmholtz." Printed in newspaper. Emile Berliner 1851 – 1929 was a G... More
Photocopy of Zon-o-Phone advertisement
Photocopy of advertisement for Zon-o-phone talking machine from National Gram-o-phone Corporation.
Cora Berliner, half-length portrait, facing left
Singed on front: "Bachrach 1917." Seal in front: "Bachrach, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington" Mounted in folder. Emile Berliner 1851 – 1929 was a German-born American inventor and businessman. He ... More
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
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
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.
Louise Berliner, full-length portrait, standing on deck of ship
Verso: "Louise - then - Frank about 1927" Emile Berliner 1851 – 1929 was a German-born American inventor and businessman. He is best known for his development of the flat disc record and the Gramophone. Berlin... More
Berliner will provides for health education
Reprinted with permission from Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive Company, The Washington Post and washingtonpost.com.
Berliner funeral to be held today
Reprinted with permission from Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive Company, The Washington Post and washingtonpost.com.
Letter from Emile Berliner to Jacob Berliner, 1881 January 22
Formerly in mylar sleeve with label: "Documents 3 : Emile Berliner's letters (3) from Boston to his brother Jacob in Hannover. Jan and March 1881. Letter by Arnold Simon 22 Aug 1881 for Emile while in Hannover."
Letter from Emile Berliner to Jacob Berliner, 1882 October 30
Letter from Emile Berliner in Boston to Jacob Berliner. Formerly in mylar sleeve labeled: "Documents #4, Emile Berliner's letters (7) to his brother Jacob in Hannover, January through Oct. 1882." Written on Ame... More
Gramophone, & c.: specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 637...
Includes 2 pages of diagrams. "Emile Berliner, of Washington, District of Columbia, assignor to the United States Gramophone Company, of same place." Diagrams and specifications for Emile Berliner's "new and us... More
Sound-record and method of making same: specification forming part of ...
Copy 1. "Emile Berliner, of Washington, District of Columbia, Assignor to United States Gramophone Company, of Washington, District of Columbia, a corporation of West Virginia." Diagrams and specifications for ... More
Joseph Sanders' diary, 1906 - Public domain document scan
Entries are sporadic; many days are empty; title on diary is Koster's diary, 1906. Handwritten; a folded paper note is inserted into diary. Joseph Sander's (Emile Berliner's nephew) personal diary where he spea... More
Muddy Jim and other rhymes : 12 illustrated health jingles for childre...
Table of contents: "Rhymes by Emile Berliner, President Tuberculosis Society of Washington, D.C., pictures by J. A. Whiteford." Also printed on title page : "Learn every rhyme and be healthy all the time." Abov... More
Freeing the human voice from its inherent limitations
Vol. 6, No. 2. An essay of Berliner's life and his accomplishments.
Letter from Jacob Berliner to family, 1870 Dec. 12
Taken from mylar sleeve labeled : " Jacob Berliner's letters from France to his family in Hannover sic while in military service (Germany vs. France) Nove 1870- Dec.1870. Five letters and one army postcard." Le... More
Letter from Jacob Berliner? to ---?, 1870 Dec. 12
Taken from mylar sleeve labeled : " Jacob Berliner's letters from France to his family in Hannover while in military service (Germany vs. France) Nove 1870- Dec.1870. Five letters and one army postcard." Letter... More
Ordnung des Dankgottesdienstes zur friedensfeier in der Synagogue zu H...
Taken from mylar sleeve labeled: " Document #11 Jacob Berliner's military pass 1870/71. 6.16.1871 letter from a fellow soldier from Lubeck regarding return of victorious troops & peace and thanksgiving services... More
Letter from Emile Berliner to Jacob Berliner, 1882 October 30
Letter from Emile Berliner in Boston to Jacob Berliner. Formerly in mylar sleeve labeled: "Documents #4, Emile Berliner's letters (7) to his brother Jacob in Hannover, January through Oct. 1882." Written on Ame... More
Note on producing a tremulo i.e. tremolo on a violin, 1884 Sept. 26
Note contains Cora Berliner's signature as a witness. Notes on producing a tremolo on a violin and on making a violin sing.
Recording and reproducing sounds : specification forming part of Lette...
Diagrams and specifications detailing Sumner Tainter's improvements in recording and producing sounds.
History of the telephone, James I. Storrow before the Supreme Court of...
Title taken from cover which was probably supplied by Berliner. Title page gives title as "Telephone appeals, oral argument of Mr. Storrow on the Bell patents-the Reis defence-infringement, January 24 to Februa... More
Legal documents and notes in German, 1887-1891
Formerly in mylar sleeve labeled: "--with-drawal of suit against Jacob B. Testament 7.21.87. Mr. Hahn Jacob's father in law. 8.26 1890 Proxy for Emile. 1.22.1891 liquidation of company Ehrlich and Berliner. Dis... More
Sound - record tablet : specification of Letters Patent No. 840,932, p...
Diagram and specification for Byron Goldsmith's improvements in sound - record tablets.
The gramophone: etching the human voice
Copy 1. Title on cover: "Paper read before the Franklin Institute, May 16, 1888, on the gramophone by its inventor, Emile Berliner." Reprint of published speech by Berliner delivered to the Franklin Institute o... More
Washington health rules : a commentary on the twelve health rules form...
Small (1"x2") clipping found inside front cover about Stuyvesant Horse Show, Warrenton, VA, in which Robert Frank participated. Commentary on the twelve health rules formulated by the Association for the Preven... More
Photograph album, ca. 1918-1923
Album of personal photographs. Includes Berliner, family and friends. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Letter from Emile Berliner to Jacob Berliner, 1881 January 22
Formerly in mylar sleeve with label: "Documents 3 : Emile Berliner's letters (3) from Boston to his brother Jacob in Hannover. Jan and March 1881. Letter by Arnold Simon 22 Aug 1881 for Emile while in Hannover."
Letter from Emile Berliner to Jacob Berliner, 1882 March 20
Formerly in mylar sleeve labeled: "Documents #4, Emile Berliner's letters (7) to his brother Jacob in Hannover, January through Oct. 1882." Includes note from Cora Berliner in English on p.7-8. Letter from Emil... More
Letter from J. W. Hyatt to E. Berliner 1888 September 17
With original envelope. Letter from J. W. Hyatt to E. Berliner regarding the pressing of discs from Berliner's zinc master. Briefly touches on potential materials to use.
Letter from W. L. Richards to Emile Berliner, 1926 Nov. 11
Bell Telephone Laboratories letterhead. Letter from W. L. Richards detailing his suggested corrections to a book (or manuscript?) Berliner had written and sent to him for his approval.
Scrapbook, Berliner-Edison controversy
Scrapbook was probably compiled by Emile Berliner. Only excerpts have been digitized. Only 32 leaves are bound, the remainder are loose inside the front cover and consist mostly of multiple copies of the bound ... More