Samuel Orchard with the world's only Multiphone, Arcadia, 1935

Item Overview

Title

Samuel Orchard with the world's only Multiphone, Arcadia, 1935

Date Created

September 13, 1935

Date

1935-09-13

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

English

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Notes

Description

Photograph appears with the headline, "Being Preserved for Posterity," Los Angeles Times, 03 Sep 1935: 12.
Sammy stands in front of the Multiphone in a room with framed pictures, lamps, and kettles. There are signs hung on the phonograph, which is twice the size of the boy. Some of the signs say: "5 cents Get a thrill It will try for a short time Then Comes the Mellowdie" "Drop a nickel in the slot and the trouble starts it, frys, it sizzles it squackes etc, etc" "Yes It Still Runs Put in Your Nickel For A Good Squak Its Inside 5c for a Schlitz Rapsodie".

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: 2034 - Sammy Orchard of Arcadia with the only Multiphone in existence, invented by Thomas A. Edison. Multiphone at Pony Express Museum in Arcadia 8-24-35 [stamped:] Sep 13 1935
Text from newspaper caption: Complicated machinery makes the wheels go on this early Thomas A. Edison phonograph, the Multiphone, only known one in existence and exhibited at W. Parker Lyon Pony Express Museum at Arcadia. The machine entertained miners at an early California camp. Sammy Orchard looks it over.
Handwritten on negative: Samuel Orchard

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

news photographs
cellulose nitrate film

Names

Orchard, Samuel, b. 1931

Location

Arcadia (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Phonographs
Galleries & museums--California--Arcadia
Boys--California--Arcadia
Signs (Notices)