Sears & Roebuck advertised the Concert Roller Organ for $7.60 including 5 tunes. Extra rollers were $0.18 each! 14,000 roller organs and 200,000 rollers were made in one year in the 1880's.
Department stores--Mississippi--Gulfport.; Architecture.; Automobiles.; Sears, Roebuck and Company--Photographs.; Brumfields (Drugstores: Gulfport, Miss.)--Photographs.; United States Postal Service (Gulfport, Miss.)--Photographs.; Yacht...
Aerial view of downtown Gulfport, Mississippi, 1956.
This 20-note organette plays by turning the handle and pumping the bellows. The rollers, or “cobs,” can be changed for various tunes. Sears & Roebuck advertised it for $3.25 including 3 rollers.
4-H Clubs; Farm life-Mississippi; Depressions--1929--United States; Tennessee Valley Authority; Electric power--Mississippi; Tornadoes--Mississippi--Tupelo.
Oral history; First of two interviews conducted with Paul H. Perkins, conducted on February 11, 2005 at Mitchell Memorial Library, Mississippi State University.
Saulters, Homer L; Agriculture--Mississippi--History; Jefferson Davis County (Miss.)
Homer L. Saulters family farm; multiple views. Farm of 237 acres in the Terrelltown Community about two miles east of the Gramby Community. Jefferson Davis Co. agent Franklin Hughes, Associate county agent R. L. Caves and Associate Home...
"Circa 1885
The Bilhorn, folding portable organ was invented by Peter Philip Bilhorn around 1885. Peter Bilhorn was an evangelist singer and composer who invented the portable organ for his evangelistic activities. He and his brother founded the...