Alan Mays' photos with the keyword: Perkins

A Victorian-era calling card with pasted-on photo. For other similar cards, see my Calling Cards with Photographs album.

"Graphophone Entertainment by Geo. L. Preston and Geo. Perkins. Admit one." The graphophone was an early type of phonograph, and a "graphophone entertainment" (or "graphophone concert") was simply a program featuring music played on a graphophone (there were also "phonograph entertainments" and "phonograph concerts"). I haven't uncovered any trace of George L. Preston and George Perkins, but it's likely that they were selling tickets like this in the late 1890s or early 1900s.