1911 North Tonawanda New York Niagara Musical Instrument Organ Machines catalog-

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Check it out...Here's a classic original 8 1/2" wide by 11" tall 20-paged catalog from a Manufacturer of Mechanical Musical Instrument Arcade Machines in North Tonawanda, New York (According to the North Tonawanda NY History webpage, the catalog is from 1911)-The red & white cover pictures a vintage horn blower on horseback logo and reads: "Ye Catalogue of Niagara Musical Instrument Manufacturing Company North Tonawanda, N.Y." on front (See info below)-Catalog opens to reveal several GREAT images of these intricate mechanical arcade music machines inside with details inside too-Has some minor wear, but still a neat VINTAGE item! How many of these survived? Postage information is listed at the bottom-$ 6.95 postage is required.
1911 North Tonawanda New York Niagara Musical Instrument Organ Machines catalog-
1911 North Tonawanda New York Niagara Musical Instrument Organ Machines catalog-
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Description
Check it out...Here's a classic original 8 1/2" wide by 11" tall 20-paged catalog from a Manufacturer of Mechanical Musical Instrument Arcade Machines in North Tonawanda, New York (According to the North Tonawanda NY History webpage, the catalog is from 1911)-The red & white cover pictures a vintage horn blower on horseback logo and reads: "Ye Catalogue of Niagara Musical Instrument Manufacturing Company North Tonawanda, N.Y." on front (See info below)-Catalog opens to reveal several GREAT images of these intricate mechanical arcade music machines inside with details inside too-Has some minor wear, but still a neat VINTAGE item! How many of these survived?
Here's some info on the company:
Niagara Musical Instrument Manufacturing Company. (1905-1917) The Niagara Musical Instrument Manufacturing Company is formed by former employees of the North Tonawanda Barrel Organ Factory. Signatures on the company's incorporation papers include those of William Herschell, the man who arranged for de Kleist’s coming to America to make organs, as well as machinist William Strassburg and Frank Morganti.  Frank Morganti is named president of the new firm. Given the kind of direct competition it represented, it seems unlikely that the parting was amicable. The local newspapers are silent about Niagara’s March 1905 start (it is only a later piece that gives us this origin date). In 1906 Niagara loses some if its leadership, including president Frank Morganti, to the larger and better funded North Tonawanda Musical Instrument Works. Niagara continues on, and completes a second small expansion of it modest plant in August 1910. Niagara produces Niagara Military Band Organs ("The Organ That Is Different," one ad insists) for carousels, dance halls, roller rinks and sideshows; in 1910 the picture house-targeted "En-Symphonie" is being marketed in Billboard and other comtemporary trade publications; the "Midget Orchestra" and similar instruments follow. Business appears to be booming in 1914, as the company pays out a dividend of 10% to its stockholders that January. However, in October 1917, the Foster Specialty Company of Buffalo purchases the "patents, goodwill, stock in trade, and equipment" of Niagara. In spite of reports that Foster intends to "immediately develop the business...on a large scale," the enterprise is never heard from again. Reader Andrew Barrett contributes the names C. E. Phillips and J. F. Preston as probable Niagara sales people in 1909 and probably thru 1910.
Postage information is listed at the bottom-$ 6.95 postage is required.
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