Cohen family - papers relating to a family business, 1913-1988

MLMSS 6573
GR 261-262

fonds

1913-1988

Textual Records, Photographs, Nonmusical Sound Recordings

153681

0.36 metres of textual material (2 boxes) - manuscript, typescript, and printed
Photographs
Sound Recordings

Harmony House ['for everything musical'] opened in Woollahra, New South Wales, sometime before 1924 under manager John J. Cohen. The shop sold musical instruments, piano rolls, sheet music, gramophones, and gramophone disks. In 1924 the shop moved to George Street in the part of Sydney called The Rocks. A recording studio was also built on the premises. In 1972 the shop closed

1917-1921, 1972; letter to John Cohen from Rita Jacobs, letter to Mrs Weingott from John Cohen, summons to John Jonah Cohen, brief history of Harmony House by Peter Speight
1913-1988; miscellaneous music dealers' newsletters; musical programmes; catalogues of gramophone records and piano rolls (Call No.: MLMSS 6573/1)
1913-1988; catalogues of radios and gramophones, catalogues of pianos and other musical instruments
1920s?-1950; photographs of family members, the shop and recording studio (Call No.: MLMSS 6573/2)
1950s; gramophone records; address on the Hebrew University in Jerusalem by A.M. Cohen and a message to students at a summer camp held at Sydney University by Chief Rabbi, Israel Brodie (Call No.: G.R. 261 and 262)