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[N.Y. B'd Inst., Co.--Waldman's] (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• swanq said:

  See www.shorpy.com/node/1798 Shorpy reckons it's Waldman's music store in Manhattan.

• B-59 said:

  The caption on the negative is "N.Y. B'd Inst., Co." (New York Band Instrument Co., see www.horn-u-copia.net/Reference/display.php?thisrec=764), I can't see any connection to Waldman's. See also www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/45977875394/ www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/32727275488/

• swanq said:

  I have been assuming that Waldman's was from a Bain caption card, but ...
  Looking for Waldman ...
  www.victor-victrola.com/NewYork.htm lists a Waldman's Victor/Victrola store at 601 9th Avenue and shows a photograph somewhat similar to the store in but definitely not the same.
  www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-Talking-Machine/20s/... (dated in 1924) also has Waldman's at 601 9th Ave.
  archive.org/details/talkingmachine17bill/page/n135 , an issue of Talking Machine World from July 1921 has a copy of
  and describes it as "a new Victor store at Forty-third street and Ninth Avenue."
  
  I'm thinking that this group of pictures is of at least two separate phonograph stores.