Records
The physical object and the formats that carried it. Shellac, vinyl, the 45, the LP sleeve, cassettes and the mixtape, CDs, the pressing plant, the record shop, and the vinyl revival that nobody in 2005 predicted.
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- - Bring me a letter from my old home town cover. sheet music cover of "bring me a letter from my old home town" Photograph/scan dated 1918.
- - Cheer up, mother. sheet music cover Photograph/scan dated 1918.
- - Eddie ó Neil Record Sleeve APR 7 1945. Record Sleeve / Mailing envelope of message sent home to mum in Ireland APR 7 1945 Photograph/scan dated 1943.
- - Maxell cassette commercial featuring Tatsuro Yamashita's Ride On Time. The television advertisement that carried Ride On Time to Japanese ubiquity and launched city pop into the mainstream.
- - Australian television introduces the compact disc, 1982. ABC Science period report on the arrival of the CD, when players cost between $900 and $1800 in Australia.
- - SonyWalkmanFamily. Four members of the Sony Walkman line of wearable products for four different physical media: Top left: wearable CD player Sony D-E221 from year 2001 ( model year and tech data… Photograph/scan dated 2006.
- - CD arc. Arc on CD. Photograph/scan dated 2006.
- - IPod Giga - Flickr - Thristian. On Saturday, I discovered that someone had... modified one of the concrete sewer grates near my house. Photographed/dated 2008.
- - JuiceBoxPlayer. JuiceBox (red, SD card adapter and 1GB card shown) Photograph/scan dated 2008.
- - Radio homebrewed2. Integrated circuit - Radio (TA7642 & LM386) in an old speaker enclosure, only broadcast band, homebrewed. Photograph/scan dated 2009.
- - Free the iPod. captured and sent from a rooted Android phone:-) Photographed/dated 2010.
- - At a CD store, Kyoto. 古今亭志ん朝、柳家小さん、柳家小三治、柳家花緑、春風亭昇太、春風亭小朝、桂歌丸 Photograph/scan dated 2010.
- - Rolling Stones - Metamorphosis - Vinyl. Fotografía tomada por mi del álbum "Metamorphosis" de The Rolling Stones, editado por London Records en 1975 en formato vinilo. Photographed/dated 2011.
- - Heatwave single in sleeve. Heatwave autographed record cover 1970. Photograph/scan dated 2011.
- - Gramophone records. Danmarks Radios arkiv af DRs Kulturarvsprojekt / The archive of the Danish Broadcasting Corporation Photos must be credited "DRs Kulturarvsprojekt" Photographed/dated 2012.
- - 3 vinyl singles-hy. 3 formats of vinyl singles Photograph/scan dated 2012.
- - Super Rich Kids - Frank Ocean (CD Single). The promotional CD single of Frank Ocean's "Super Rich Kids" released by Def Jam Recording to radio stations in 2013. Photograph/scan dated 2013.
- - Jukebox, Fanfare 100, NSM Apparatebau GmbH, Bingen, Rhein, 1958 AD, metal, glass,…. Exhibit in the Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum, Braunschweig, Germany. Photographed/dated 2014.
- - Mills 1934 Jukebox. This jukebox was produced by the Mills Novelty Company in 1934 and plays 78 rpm records. Photographed/dated 2015.
- - An old gramophone at Dilli Haat, New Delhi. /dated 2015.
- - Ipod design reincarnated as cheap remote (for a beamer screen).. via Instagram <a href=" http://ift.tt/1LUvoWb " rel="nofollow">ift.tt/1LUvoWb</a> Photographed/dated 2015.
- - CD Korrosion. Destroyed CD (by time) Photograph/scan dated 2016.
- - DDR Transistor Radio Sternchen. " Photographed/dated 2016.
- - OYE Records Berlin 2016. The OYE Records record store in Berlin in 2016. Photograph/scan dated 2016.
- - Browsing vinyl music at a fair (Unsplash). Shoreditch, London, United Kingdom Photographed/dated 2016.
- - Cassette Tape (Unsplash). London, United Kingdom Photographed/dated 2017.
- - Vinyl. A vinyl storeftont. Photograph/scan dated 2017.
- - Gramophone of Chennai. கிராமபோஃன். Photographed/dated 2017.
- - Bernie Grundman on mastering and cutting vinyl. The mastering engineer behind Thriller, Tapestry and The Chronic demonstrates his approach and cuts a lacquer on camera.
- - Ce bielis maninis partitura. Partitura del canto popolare Ce bielis maninis armonizzata per pianoforte e voce nell'edizione del libro Canti di soldati del 1919 Photographed/dated 2018.
- - A'l chante 'l gial partitura. Partitura del canto popolare A'l chante 'l gial armonizzata per pianoforte e voce nell'edizione del libro Canti di soldati del 1919 Photographed/dated 2018.
- - Atrapar el sonido Fundación Telefónica 08 Fonografo. Fonografo en la muestra Atrapando el Sonido de la Fundación Telefónica. Photographed/dated 2018.
- - Atrapar el sonido Fundación Telefónica 10 Fonografo. Fonografo en la muestra Atrapando el Sonido de la Fundación Telefónica. Photographed/dated 2018.
- - Atrapar el sonido Fundación Telefónica 09 Fonografo. Fonografo en la muestra Atrapando el Sonido de la Fundación Telefónica. Photographed/dated 2018.
- - How Sony and Philips built the compact disc. Technology Connections on the engineering negotiation between Sony and Philips that produced the CD standard.
- - CASSETTE. Public Domain...have fun Photographed/dated 2019.
- - Radiorecorder skr-501 auf schreibtisch crop 1985. Radiorecorder "Steratrans SKR-501", VEB Stern-Radio Berlin, mit Stickern personalisiert, 1985. Photographed/dated 2020.
- - Jukebox Orphéau - Série Mimosa - 20 disques 33 tours. Orphéau Jukebox with 20 LP records Photographed/dated 2020.
- - Mädchen mit Walkman. Skulptur (1985) von Hans Joachim Frielinghaus Photographed/dated 2020.
- - Pre-owned old-style records for sale, in an attempt to recycle and reuse. Saligao…. Saligao. Photo by Frederick Noronha. Attribution mandatory. CC4.0-BY-SA. Photographed/dated 2020.
- - Sony CD Walkman D-EJ985 opened. Sony CD Walkman D-EJ985 with the top opened up, introduced to consumers in 2002. Photographed/dated 2020.
- - Saf Holland turntable, fifth wheel 02. Saf Holland tractor truck heavy-duty turntable/fifth wheel coupling in India Photographed/dated 2021.
- - Cd-Radiorecorder Osaka links Aps-Fuji-Nexia-400 2000. Cd-Radiorecorder Osaka Photographed/dated 2021.
- - SONY WALKMAN NW-E3. /dated 2022.
- - Man struggles with tangled cassette tape while holding a vintage audio cassette in…. In a softly lit indoor environment, a man grapples with a messy bundle of cassette tape while clutching a vintage audio cassette. The moment captures nostalgia and frustration. Photograph/scan dated 2023.
- - How a vinyl record is actually made. WIRED films the full process at Jack White's Third Man Pressing in Detroit, from lacquer cutting to pressing and quality control.
- - 20230322 112858 Abandoned cassette tape. Abandoned cassette tape (Listening to the Great Teacher. Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania. cste-1). Federal Way, Washington Photograph/scan dated 2023.
- - The rise, fall and rebirth of the vinyl record. WSJ on vinyl passing $1.2bn in 2022 and outselling CDs for the first time since 1987, with Mike Shinoda and industry analysts.
- - Audio CD with Copy Protection (Open Jewel Case - With Compact Disc). Open Jewel Case which contains an Audio CD ("Unwritten" by Natasha Bedingfield) with Copy Protection, known to contain a rootkit, installed on it. Photograph/scan dated 2023.
- - A Motown seven-inch single, B-side label. Side 1 (A-side) of a Motown 7" Single, containing "Nightshift" by the Commodores. Photographed/dated 2023.
- - A Motown seven-inch single, A-side label. Side 2 (B-side) of a Motown 7" Single, containing "I Keep Running" by the Commodores. Photographed/dated 2023.
- - SZ 深圳 Shenzhen 南山 Nanshan 大時代 Great Time Restaurant 黑膠唱片 LP song records January 2…. SZ 深圳 Shenzhen 南山 Nanshan 大時代 Great Time Restaurant 黑膠唱片 LP records in January 2024 Photographed/dated 2024.
- - Gramophone 3. Gramophone Photographed/dated 2024.
- - Compact Cassette 12. نوار کاست ضبط صدا. Photographed/dated 2025.
- - 7 inch Vinyl Record and Compact Disc Size Comparison. A 7 inch vinyl record (left) and a Compact Disc (right) shown side by side for size comparison Photograph/scan dated 2025.
- - Few Sample Gramophone Record from Iqbal Matin's Archive 08. Iqbal Matin's Gramophone Archive Photographed/dated 2025.
- - The vinyl resurgence keeps accelerating. CBS News on 2026 data showing vinyl demand still rising, driven by social media and artist-specific special editions.