The Thomas A. Edison Papers Digital Edition

Starting with the issue of March 1903, the Edison Phonograph Monthly was a publication of the National Phonograph Co. The monthly issues provided jobbers and dealers with technical, promotional, and other information, including articles on products, matters of corporate policy, and the progress of litigation, as well as lists of new records, available printed matter, current jobbers, and suspended dealers. Each issue printed numerous communications from jobbers and dealers who related their experiences or posed questions regarding the sale of Edison phonographs and records. The publication was continued by Thomas A. Edison, Inc., in February 1911, and it was renamed the Edison Amberola Monthly in 1917.

The archives of the Edison National Historical Park contains a complete run of the Edison Phonograph Monthly. All issues for the period March 1903-December 1910 (volumes 1-8) have been selected. Prior to 1908, the monthly issues are numbered from 1 (March) through 12 (February). Beginning in 1908, the January issue is the first numbered issue. Each issue is individually paginated and contains approximately twenty pages. The volume and issue numbers appear on page one. Each issue contains a table of contents; the contents pages are missing from the 1908 volume. A 20-page index, prepared by the editors, appears below.

The majority of terms in the index are the names of jobbers and dealers. Also included are recording artists and company employees who are the subject of feature articles, as well as Edison products and other topics that are noted in particular detail. Among the items not indexed are lists of jobbers and dealers, lists of new record releases, and the names of recording artists associated with those releases. A useful source for information about early cylinder records and recording artists is Allen Koenigsberg, Edison Cylinder Records, 1889-1912, 2nd ed. (Brooklyn, N.Y.: APM Press, 1987).

Index entries appear in the following format: Index term: Volume [Issue]: Page (Month Year).

INDEX

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Ackerman & Co: 1[6]:8 (Aug 1903), 1[10]:6 (Dec 1903), 2[1]:12 (Mar 1904), 5[5]:15 (Jul 1907)

Adams, I C: 5[10]:14 (Dec 1907)

Adams, James G: 6[1]:12 (Jan 1908)

Agency Co: 7[3]:19 (Mar 1909)

Agreement, Dealers': 1[5]:7 (Jul 1903), 1[6]:3 (Aug 1903), 1[8]:5 (Oct 1903), 4[11]:7 (Feb 1907), 5[8]:1 (Oct 1907), 5[8]:6 (Oct 1907), 5[10]:6 (Dec 1907), 6[2]:12 (Feb 1908), 6[3]:9 (Mar 1908), 7[1]:15 (Jan 1909), 7[5]:5 (May 1909), 8[7]:6 (Jul 1910)

Agreement, Dealers' and Jobbers': 2[6]:2 (Aug 1904), 4[4]:4 (Jun 1906), 4[4]:12 (Jun 1906), 5[2]:6 (Apr 1907)

Agreement, Jobbers': 1[3]:1 (May 1903), 1[4]:1 (Jun 1903)

Aiken, Edward L: 6[3]:11 (Mar 1908)

Ainsworth Music Co: 3[1]:13 (Mar 1905)

Albani (Madame): 1[3]:10 (May 1903)

Albert, M Francois: 1[8]:10 (Oct 1903), 4[8]:5 (Oct 1906)

Alden Bidinger & Co: 6[2]:17 (Feb 1908)

Allen's Emporium: 8[9]:9 (Sep 1910)

Amberol Attachment: 6[10]:7 (Oct 1908), 6[11]:5 (Nov 1908), 7[11]:11 (Nov 1909), 7[11]:2 (Dec 1909), 8[1]:4 (Jan 1910), 8[3]:2 (Mar 1910), 8[5]:1 (May 1910), 8[6]:2 (Jun 1910), 8[11]:12 (Dec 1910)

Amberol Grand Opera Records: 7[7]:7 (Jul 1909), 7[11]:9 (Dec 1909)

Amberol Records: 6[10]:7 (Oct 1908), 6[11]:5 (Nov 1908), 6[11]:2 (Dec 1908), 7[2]:2 (Feb 1909), 7[3]:1 (Mar 1909), 7[5]:4 (May 1909), 7[9]:12 (Sep 1909)

Amberola: 7[10]:2 (Oct 1909), 7[11]:2 (Nov 1909), 8[1]:4 (Jan 1910), 8[3]:7 (Mar 1910), 8[4]:3 (Apr 1910), 8[4]:5 (Apr 1910), 8[5]:2 (May 1910), 8[6]:4 (Jun 1910), 8[9]:2 (Sep 1910), 8[11]:6 (Dec 1910)

American Electro-Chemical Society: 5[9]:21 (Nov 1907)

American Federation of Musicians: 2[2]:6 (Apr 1904)

American Phonograph Co: 2[2]:5 (Apr 1904), 2[10]:10 (Dec 1904)