Recording Collection

MGM LION
Recording Leo the Lions famous roar for MGM (Metro Goldwyn Mayer) Studios

His Broadcast Masters Voice by George Studdy
A spoof on the famous His Masters Voice logo featuring a dog listening to a gramophone; Bonzo, the comic canine creation of George Studdy

Seance room at the National Laboratory of Psychical Research
Undated photograph of corner of the sance room at the National Laboratory of Psychical Research, with trumpets on table. HPG/1/2/1 (vi)

Phonograph Recording
Recording a man playing the piano using Edisons improved model phonograph

The method of linking up hands and feet of sitting mediums
Undated photograph showing the method of linking up hands and feet of sitting mediums by means of electrical control. This is one of series of photographs documenting Harry Prices investigations into

Indoor filming
Televising a Spanish scene at the Crystal Palace, filmed on cine-film at the studios of the Baird Television Company. On the 2nd February 1935 the Baird system transmitted indoor

Recording Studio 1980
A sound engineer gets the balance right at John Wood Studios, London

Schneider contest nerve centre by G. H. Davis
The Schneider contest nerve centre: timing at over 300 mph. How the amazing speeds of the seaplanes were recorded: the timekeepers and their work on Ryde Pier. Date: 1929

Peggy Sue, by Buddy Holly, 78prm record label
Peggy Sue, by Buddy Holly, 78rpm record label Date: circa 1957

Eastern musicians on Columbia record sleeve
Javanese or Indonesian musicians on Columbia 78rpm record sleeve Date: early 20th century

Enrico Caruso, HMV label, Addio by Tosti, 78 rpm record
Enrico Caruso, opera singer, Addio by Tosti - HMV record label, 78 rpm Date: early 20th century

Sir Harry Lauder recording with an orchestra Date: 1949

George Formby Snr and Luisa Tetrazzini, recording studio
George Formby Snr recording his voice, with opera singer Luisa Tetrazzini watching Date: 1949

New York police identifying criminals using different methods, known as the Bertillon System. Face and head measurement were taken to ensure identity

Charter (Fragment)
Fragment of a charter, parchment, apparently recording the sale of a house by (-) Wingartman and his wife in the neighbourhood of Trier in the year (13-)

Charter (Fragments)
Charter recording a mortgage for a house, cut into two pieces for use as book binding material. On parchment. Text in dark brown-black ink in a gothic cursive hand

Advert, Twin Deck Celebritone Gramophone, complete installation £125 Date: 1929

Francoise Garrigues talks fashion, novelty 7 inch cardboard 45 rpm record Date: 1961

Graphophone, Paris Exhibition of 1889
Graphophone, Universal Exhibition of Paris, 1889 Date: 1889

Record sleeve, Yehudi Menuhin, violinist
78rpm record sleeve advertising Yehudi Menuhin, violinist, on HMV, His Master's Voice, playing music by Sarasate and Brahms. Date: circa 1949

Record sleeve, Salon Decca gramophone
78rpm record sleeve advertising the Salon Decca gramophone - the musician's instrument. Date: circa 1940s

Record sleeve, His Master's Voice
78rpm record sleeve advertising HMV, His Master's Voice. Date: circa 1940s

Record sleeve, Peter Dawson, baritone
78rpm record sleeve, Peter Dawson, baritone - The Floral Dance. Date: circa 1940s

Record sleeve, Woolworth's Embassy 45rpm record Date: 1950s

Advert, The Edison Phonograph, wax cylinder player
Advert for The Edison Phonograph, wax cylinder player, National Phonograph Company. Date: 1901

Recording the nation's anxiety outside Buckingham Palace in London. Waiting for a bulletin notifying of the development of King Edward illness. Date: May 1910

Avro 652 Anson I N4877 - G-AMDA of the Skyfame museum at Staverton Airport N4877 was built at the Avro factory at Newton Heath, Manchester and was taken on charge by the Royal Air Force on Nov 17

Ben Salvin and his Colombia Recording Orchestra, 1928 Date: 1928

The Surrender Room, Hotel de Wereld, Wageningen
The old Hotel de Wereld was the scene of the German surrender to the Dutch. To the right of the entrance is a Commemorative Plaque recording that

Everest expedition, 1922 - General Bruce and Captain Noel
Captain John Baptist Lucius Noel, the official photographer of the 1924 Everest expedition, pictured on shooting a film from the roof of a train carriage during the journey up the Teesta Valley

Gramophone Company, Gilbert and Sullivan records
Advert for The Gramophone Company, recording of Gilbert and Sullivans comic operetta, The Mikado. 1907

Winifred Atwell on the cover of her recording of Make it a Party which was a top ten chart success. Winifred Atwell (1914-1983)

BBC Broadcasting House, Studio 3D for Talks
BBC Broadcasting House, May 1935, Studio 3D for Talks. 1935

Variety of Telegraph machinery including a Single needle telegraph of Cooke Date: circa 1850

Speedometer for Motor Cars 1910
Patent machine that recorded the pace of a motor car by S. Smith & Sons, showing at the Olympia Motor Show. Date: 1910

Register Book at St. Andrews Church, Hempstead - Turpin
circa 1910s

Autographed promotional postcard for Star Artist recording star Nat Gonella - a trumpeter who recorded for Columbia. Nathaniel Charles Gonella (19081998) was an English jazz trumpeter, bandleader

Early Recording Machine

Colonel George E. Gouraud, Vanity Fair, Ape
Colonel GEORGE EDWARD GOURAUD (1841-1912) American Civil War soldier who later acted as agent for Thomas Edison, introducing the new Edison Phonograph cylinder audio recording technology to England

TELEVISION SOUND 1930
Making a sound recording for television. Date: 1930

LIORETS PHONOGRAPH 1897
Fig.1 Phonograph recording at the Trocadero in Paris Fig. 2 Phonograph ensemble Fig.3 Needle and cylinder Date: 1897

Futuristic recorded message
A futuristic recorded message, brought on a tray by a servant. Date: 1899

LFDCA-LFB Breathing apparatus control board
All front line fire engines which carry breathing apparatus also carry a BA control board. This ensures that when firefighters enter an incident in BA their details are recorded

78 rpm record cover, Saville Pianos Ltd, offering piano tuning and repairs, records and musical instruments. 20th century

Poster, the Rolling Stones latest disc
Poster advertising the Rolling Stones latest disc. Date: 1960s

Two girls with gramophone, Balham, SW London
Two little girls with an old wind-up gramophone and a 78rpm record on a pavement in a Balham street, SW London. Date: circa 1961

Bristol 170 Freighter CF-TFX Wardair, Yellowknife
Ex-Wardair Bristol Freighter CF-TFX on a plinth at Yellowknife recording it as being the first ever wheeled aircraft to land at the North Pole in 1967 Date: 1981

Suffragette with Brick. Suffragette holding umbrella and brick stands outside the Houses of Parliament. Verse reads, And this is the Suffragette Lady of note

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