Starr Phonographs

ID: 2264 ~ Source: Courtesy of Morrisson-Reeves Library ~ Date: ca 1917

This file appears in: The Starr Piano Company

An early advertisement for Starr Phonographs. The bottom of the page mentions that the company was releasing new records each week.

This file appears in: The Starr Piano Company

The Starr Piano Company

By Sue King, Morrisson-Reeves Library & Ariana Cieslak

By the 1870s, more business flowed toward Richmond, Indiana. In 1872, George Trayser, a renowned piano maker from Germany who had previously maintained factories in Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio, and had been awarded several U.S. patents for his…