On this Day Factola
Easter and the Phonograph
"The magnificent anthems you hear on Easter are too beautiful to be confined to one day alone." The Saturday Evening Post, April 18, 1908
Easter postcard, April 1914 Bath, England
Easter postcard, April 1915 Sweden
Easter postcard, April c.1920 USA
Easter postcard, April c.1920 Rotterdam
The Edison Phonograph Monthly, November 1912
Words by William Jerome. Music by Harry Von Tilzer. Publisher Harry Von Tilzer Music Publishing Co., New York, 1912 (Courtesy Lester S. Levy Sheet Music Collection, Johns Hopkins).
Read about the Bunny Hug, the Turkey Trot, the Grizzly Bear and other so-called “animal dances" in "Dirty Dancing In The Early 1900s" by NPR, June 11, 2015 at CPR News.
Wurlitzer magazine ad by Albert Dorne, Life, 1947