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Brass Band Marches

Mr. Thomas Cat
Performed by: Edison Grand Concert Band
Record format: Edison Concert cylinder
Release number: B-517
Release date: December 1900
NPS object catalog number: EDIS 4795

Kaiser Frederick march
Performed by: British Military Band
Composed by: Carl Friedemann
Record format: Edison Gold Moulded cylinder
Release number: 13061 (5)
Release date: 1905
NPS object catalog number: EDIS 38237

Semper fidelis march
Performed by: United States Marine Band
Composed by: John Phillip Sousa
Record format: Edison Amberol cylinder
Release number: 4M-140 (A- ..7)
Release date: June 1909
NPS object catalog number: EDIS 35806

Stars and stripes forever march
Performed by: Sousa's Band
Composed by: John Phillip Sousa
Record format: Edison Amberol cylinder
Release number: 4M-285 (A- ..22)
Release date: November 1909
NPS object catalog number: EDIS 36682

Santa Lucia march
Performed by: His Majesty's Irish Guards Band
Composed by: Lotter
Record format: Edison Gold Moulded cylinder
Release number: 10561 (A- .6)
Release date: July 1912
NPS object catalog number: EDIS 37943

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Did You Know?

A large birdfeeder on the lawn of Glenmont just outside the conservatory.

Mina Edison was an avid bird watcher.  She had many feeders and birdhouses around the grounds of Glenmont.  She even had a heated birdbath.  In the winter she flipped a switch in her bedroom that would turn on the birdbath in the yard below her window and it would melt the ice.