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Jackson & MacDonald, 360-362 Kent Street, Sydney (1927). In 1906, Messrs. S.J. Jackson and D.S. Macdonald commenced business in Sydney as jobbers (wholesalers) of ‘Edison’s cylinder records and phonographs. A few years later they began importing talking machines to play the new ‘disc’ records and these were marketed under the trademark ‘REXOPHONE’. The next step was to import motors, tonearms and soundboxes from S.A. Thorens, Switzerland, which were assembled in Sydney to locally made talking machine cabinets and sold under the ‘REXOPHONE’ trademark. Early in the nineteen twenties, the ‘PRISMATIC’ Reflector Sound Chamber was patented. Made of wood it gave a much-improved volume, purity, and richness of tone for which ‘REXONOLAS’ were famous. The peak of production was reached about 1928/9 when more than 100 people were employed at the cabinet factory, and 120 people in the warehouse. Early in the 1930s, the development of radio receivers and the Great Depression caused a collapse, and production of ‘REXONOLAS’ and ‘REXOPORTS’ ceased about 1935. Source: www.radiomuseum.org/dsp_hersteller_detail.cfm?company_id=...

NYT of April 12, 1914 query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9501E6DA133DE333A... describes the 4/11/1914 demonstration.

Other Bain/LOC photos from the I. W. W. rally in Union Square, New York City:

EVERY MAN is wearing a HAT! i just find that fascinating.

kivajo, You might like to click on the 'crowd of hats' tag!!

Accompanying note: "Billy Graham addressed a crowd, estimated at 14,000, in Campbell Stadium on a fair but cold Saturday night. Despite the chill of the evening, it was pleasant weather compared with the evangelist's last visit here several years ago, when a rainstorm came as he talked."

Great man; great evangelist.