This room at the Detroit Public Library in midtown Detroit, Michigan, contains not just the expected bookshelves but also, displayed under glass (foreground), a Thomas Edison "Opera" Model A phonograph, ca. 1910-1914. This model was made to play four-minute Blue Amberol cylinders

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This room at the Detroit Public Library in midtown Detroit, Michigan, contains not just the expected bookshelves but also, displayed under glass (foreground), a Thomas Edison "Opera" Model A phonograph, ca. 1910-1914. This model was made to play four-minute Blue Amberol cylinders

Digital ID: (original digital file) highsm 60281 https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/highsm.60281
Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-highsm-60281 (original digital file)
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

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This room at the Detroit Public Library in midtown Detroit, Michigan, contains not just the expected bookshelves but also, displayed under glass (foreground), a Thomas Edison "Opera" Model A phonograph, ca. 1910-1914. This model was made to play four-minute Blue Amberol cylinders

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This room at the Detroit Public Library in midtown Detroit, Michigan, contains not just the expected bookshelves but also, displayed under glass (foreground), a Thomas Edison "Opera" Model A phonograph, ca. 1910-1914. This model was made to play four-minute Blue Amberol cylinders

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