newyorkbandinstrumentco

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Left-hand poster is for adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/matrix/detail/700009712/B-... Middle poster is probably for adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/matrix/detail/700010223/C-... Right-hand is probably for adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/matrix/detail/700010009/B-...

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Food Export Corporation of America and the New York Band Instrument Company were both located at 111 East 14th Street, Manhattan. A short walk to the southeast from Union Square.

Those guys are all watching Harold Hill extol the virtues of a local boys brass band, no doubt

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See www.horn-u-copia.net/Reference/display.php?thisrec=764

TVL1970, thank you for the address of the New York Band Instrument Company. We will add it to the description.

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

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/

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.