Taking center stage in this circa 1909 photograph by an unidentified photographer, is the gramophone, or phonograph, with a large speaker horn. Three generations of the Hitchcock family of Amherst, Massachusetts, were able, with Thomas Edison’s 1877 invention, to enjoy music in their private garden.
Hitchcock Family Phonograph. Photograph. ca. 1909. Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, American Centuries. https://americancenturies.org/collection/1996-12-2756/. Accessed on October 16, 2024.
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