Photos tagged as museums
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Day_83_-_Cape Charles Museum, Generator
This thing was giagantic (notice the bench in front of it). The museum is housed in the old electrical plant (I think).
- Date: 23 November 2007
- Photographer: jl98584: gallery
- Location: Norfolk, USA: gallery
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Day_83_-_Cape Charles Museum, Switchboard
I actually worked on one of these at a temp job once in the mid 1970's (it should have been in a museum then too!)
- Date: 23 November 2007
- Photographer: jl98584: gallery
- Location: Norfolk, USA: gallery
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Day_83_-_Cape Charles Museum, Mom & Mary
Mary was keeping the Museum open for it's last weekend before winter. She agreed to pose for a picture, but didn't seem too thrilled to do it. She was very helpful however and even ran the generator for us (simulated).
- Date: 23 November 2007
- Photographer: jl98584: gallery
- Location: Norfolk, USA: gallery
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Day 81 - Museum of Small Town Life, Dressmaker Shop
In 1900, most small towns would have a dressmaker's shop, such as this.
- Date: 21 November 2007
- Photographer: jl98584: gallery
- Location: Dover, USA: gallery
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Day 81 - Museum of Small Town Life
This building was never a church, although it looks very much like one. It was built as a meeting house for a church that was next door, but now houses the Museum of Small Town Life for Delaware.
- Date: 21 November 2007
- Photographer: jl98584: gallery
- Location: Dover, USA: gallery
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Day 81 - Museum of Small Town Life, Carpenter's Shop
In 1900, most small towns would have a carpenter or woodworking shop. They could make just about any wood products needed by the local folks.
- Date: 21 November 2007
- Photographer: jl98584: gallery
- Location: Dover, USA: gallery
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Day 81 - Museum of Small Town Life, Print Etchings
In 1900, any drawings or pictures that needed to be printed had to be carved or etched (in reverse!). This was a fairly difficult and expensive process, so pictures tended to be resused.
- Date: 21 November 2007
- Photographer: jl98584: gallery
- Location: Dover, USA: gallery
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Day 81 - Museum of Small Town Life, Wood Molding
Today, fancy wood molding in rooms or on furniture are made using a router. In 1900, they were shaved by hand using a planer with a special blade cut to the particular shape of the final molding.
- Date: 21 November 2007
- Photographer: jl98584: gallery
- Location: Dover, USA: gallery
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Day 81 - Museum of Small Town Life, Wood Splitting
In 1900, lumber was often split by hand from logs using tools such as this (notice the mallet)
- Date: 21 November 2007
- Photographer: jl98584: gallery
- Location: Dover, USA: gallery
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Day 81 - Museum of Small Town Life, Drug store products
These are typical of the products sold by a drugstore in 1900. Druggests often made the diagnosis and prescription as well as selling the products.
- Date: 21 November 2007
- Photographer: jl98584: gallery
- Location: Dover, USA: gallery
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Day 81 - Museum of Small Town Life, Drugstore
Drugstores were an essential business in small towns. The colored water bottles were a symbol for Drugstore. They helped identify the type of business (like barbershop poles), since many people still could not read.
- Date: 21 November 2007
- Photographer: jl98584: gallery
- Location: Dover, USA: gallery
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Day 81 - Johnson Victrola Museum, White House Model
Wes was my guide for the upstairs portion of the museum. This is the Victrola model used in the Music Room in the White House in 1910.
- Date: 21 November 2007
- Photographer: jl98584: gallery
- Location: Dover, USA: gallery
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Day 81 - Johnson Victrola Museum, Radio Model
When Victrola first incorporated radio's and record players, they put the vacuum tubes outside so they could be easily changed
- Date: 21 November 2007
- Photographer: jl98584: gallery
- Location: Dover, USA: gallery
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Day 81 - Johnson Victrola Museum, Reproducers
Early record players had no electronics. Needles had to magnify sound using mechanical devices only, which were called reproducers. Initially they used mica, but later moved to aluminum.
- Date: 21 November 2007
- Photographer: jl98584: gallery
- Location: Dover, USA: gallery
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Day 81 - Johnson Victrola Museum, Portable
There were several portable record players (100% mechanical, no electronics) on display. They were very cute, but didn't produce very good sound.
- Date: 21 November 2007
- Photographer: jl98584: gallery
- Location: Dover, USA: gallery
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Day 81 - Johnson Victrola Museum, Nipper Painting
This is one of the most famous advertising trademark's ever developed. There were about 12 paintings made, including this one at the museum. Nipper (the dog, was owned by the artists brother. The painting is titled "His Master's Voice".
- Date: 21 November 2007
- Photographer: jl98584: gallery
- Location: Dover, USA: gallery
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Day 81 - Johnson Victrola Museum, Nipper Display
One of the more popular exhibits at the museum is this display of various advertising uses of 'Nipper' from the painting.
- Date: 21 November 2007
- Photographer: jl98584: gallery
- Location: Dover, USA: gallery
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Day 81 - Johnson Victrola Museum, Johnson Portriat
Eldridge R. Johnson founded the Victrola Talking Machine Company in 1901 after developing the spring motor working with Emile Berliner on his early gramophone.
- Date: 21 November 2007
- Photographer: jl98584: gallery
- Location: Dover, USA: gallery
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Day 81 - Johnson Victrola Museum, Horns
Just an artistic display of early gramophone horns. These machines didn't have loud speakers but magnified sound using horns.
- Date: 21 November 2007
- Photographer: jl98584: gallery
- Location: Dover, USA: gallery
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Day 81 - Johnson Victrola Museum, Horn in a Box Model
Middle era gramaphones (pre electronic) located the horn inside the box. This way, it was out of the way and didn't get dusty. Sound could also be left louder (by opening the doors) or made softer (by closing them)
- Date: 21 November 2007
- Photographer: jl98584: gallery
- Location: Dover, USA: gallery
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Day 81 - Johnson Victrola Museum, Grammy
E.R. Johnson was awarded this Grammy in 1985 for elevating the 'talking machine' "...from a scientific toy to a commercial article of great value."
- Date: 21 November 2007
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- Location: Dover, USA: gallery
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Day 81 - Johnson Victrola Museum
This is located in Dover, Delaware near the State Capital. Victrola's are a very early form of phonograph (record player)
- Date: 21 November 2007
- Photographer: jl98584: gallery
- Location: Dover, USA: gallery
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Day 81 - Johnson Victrola Museum, Early Horn Model
This model is probably from around 1905 (I forgot to take a picture of the tag).
- Date: 21 November 2007
- Photographer: jl98584: gallery
- Location: Dover, USA: gallery
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Day 81 - Johnson Victrola Museum, Emile Berliner Photo
Emile Berliner formed a company to marked a model of record player (gramophone) in 1895. Johnson developed the spring wound moter to improve this device and also produced other metal parts for Berliner's company. He also developed a mechanical mouthpiece which he sold to Alexander Graham Bell for $75,000 plus $5,000 per year.
- Date: 21 November 2007
- Photographer: jl98584: gallery
- Location: Dover, USA: gallery
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Day 81 - Johnson Victrola Museum, Early Recording Session
Before electronic microphones were introduced, recordings were captured acoustically using a giant horn such as this to move a needle to scratch the master record. This is Rosairo Bourdon and the Victor Salon Orchastra in a 1910 recording session.
- Date: 21 November 2007
- Photographer: jl98584: gallery
- Location: Dover, USA: gallery
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