Len Spencer (author)
Matrixes marked with
indicate recordings are available for online listening.
Matrix No. |
First Recording Date |
Title |
Primary Performer |
Description |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| [Pre-matrix B-]858 | 5/9/1902 | A trip to the circus | Gilbert Girard ; Len Spencer |
Descriptive scene |
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| [Pre-matrix C-]858 | 5/9/1902 | A trip to the circus | Gilbert Girard ; Len Spencer |
Descriptive scene |
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| [Pre-matrix A-]858 | 6/11/1901 | A trip to the circus | Gilbert Girard ; Len Spencer |
Descriptive scene |
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| [Pre-matrix A-]1102 | 11/23/1901 | The stuttering monologist | Charles D'Almaine ; Len Spencer |
Descriptive scene, with violin |
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| [Pre-matrix B-]1102 | 11/23/1901 | The stuttering monolougist | Charles D'Almaine ; Len Spencer |
Descriptive scene, with violin |
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| [Pre-matrix A-]1103 | 11/23/1901 | Marty Maloney's wake | Charles D'Almaine ; Len Spencer |
Monologue, with violin |
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| [Pre-matrix B-]1103 | 11/23/1901 | Marty Maloney's wake | Charles D'Almaine ; Len Spencer |
Monologue, with violin |
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| [Pre-matrix A-]1104 | 11/23/1901 | Con Clancy's christening | Charles D'Almaine ; Len Spencer |
Monologue, with violin |
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| [Pre-matrix B-]1104 | 11/23/1901 | Con Clancy's christening | Charles D'Almaine ; Len Spencer |
Monologue, with violin |
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| [Pre-matrix A-]1107 | 11/23/1901 | Auction sale of Christmas toys | Gilbert Girard ; Len Spencer |
Descriptive scene |
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| [Pre-matrix B-]1107 | 11/23/1901 | Auction sale of Christmas toys | Gilbert Girard ; Len Spencer |
Descriptive scene |
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| [Pre-matrix B-]1381 | 5/9/1902 | Daybreak at Calamity Farm | Gilbert Girard ; Len Spencer |
Descriptive scene |
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| [Pre-matrix A-]1904 | 1/16/1903 | A yaller dog's love for a niggah | Len Spencer |
Monologue |
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| [Pre-matrix B-]1904 | 1/16/1903 | A yaller dog's love for a niggah | Len Spencer |
Monologue |
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| [Pre-matrix B-]1987 | 2/14/1903 | Old Bill, the street song seller | Len Spencer |
Monologue |
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| [Pre-matrix A-]2171 | 4/17/1903 | The piccolo player's reward | Len Spencer |
Monologue |
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| [Pre-matrix B-]2171 | 4/17/1903 | The piccolo player's reward | Len Spencer |
Monologue |
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| C-217 [Old series] | 2/9/1903 or 5/26/1903 | The kid from the Bowery | Len Spencer |
Monologue |
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| B-459 | 9/25/1903 | The piccolo player's reward | Parke Hunter ; Len Spencer |
Monologue, with banjo |
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| A-533 | 10/9/1903 | Auction sale of a music store | Parke Hunter ; Len Spencer |
Monologue, with violin, piano, banjo, and ocarina |
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| B-533 | 10/9/1903 | Auction sale of a music store | Parke Hunter ; Len Spencer |
Monologue, with violin, piano, banjo, and ocarina |
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| A-633 | 11/5/1903 | Banjo 'Lize | Vess L. Ossman ; Len Spencer |
Male vocal solo, with banjo |
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| B-633 | 11/5/1903 | Banjo 'Lize | Vess L. Ossman ; Len Spencer |
Male vocal solo, with banjo |
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| C-633 | 11/5/1903 | Banjo Lize, from New Orleans | Vess L. Ossman ; Len Spencer |
Male vocal solo, with banjo |
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| B-1025 | 2/6/1904 | Clancey's prize waltz contest | Len Spencer |
Descriptive scene, with orchestra |
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| C-1025 | 2/6/1904 | Clancey's prize waltz contest | Len Spencer |
Descriptive scene, with orchestra |
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| C-1160 | 3/24/1904 | Pumpernickel's silver wedding | Len Spencer |
Monologue, with orchestra |
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| B-1160 | 3/24/1904 | Pumpernickel's silver wedding | Len Spencer |
Monologue, with orchestra |
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| B-1197 | 4/7/1904 | Con Clancey and the whistling newsboy | Parke Hunter ; Len Spencer |
Descriptive scene, with banjo |
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| C-1197 | 4/7/1904 | Con Clancey and the whistling newsboy | Parke Hunter ; Len Spencer |
Descriptive scene, with banjo |
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| B-1198 | 4/7/1904 | Reuben Haskins' trip 'round the world | Parke Hunter ; Len Spencer |
Descriptive scene, with banjo |
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| C-1198 | 4/7/1904 | Reuben Haskins' trip around the world in his air-ship | Parke Hunter ; Len Spencer |
Descriptive scene, with banjo |
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| B-1428 | 6/7/1904 | Auction sale of household goods | Gilbert Girard ; Len Spencer |
Descriptive scene, with piano |
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| A-1562 | 7/7/1904 | Reuben Haskin from Skowhegan | Len Spencer |
Monologue, with piano |
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| B-1562 | 7/7/1904 | Reuben Haskin from Skowhegan | Len Spencer |
Monologue, with piano |
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| B-1680 | 9/12/1904 | 'Round the camp fire | Haydn Quartet |
Male vocal quartet |
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| C-1680 | 9/12/1904 | Round the camp-fire | Haydn Quartet |
Male vocal quartet |
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| B-1696 | 9/21/1904 | Down the pike | Arthur Pryor's Band |
Band |
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| B-1967 | 11/23/1904 | Reuben Haskins' ride in the 'Red Devil' | Al S. Holt ; Len Spencer |
Descriptive scene |
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| C-1967 | 11/23/1904 | Reuben Haskins' ride in the 'Red Devil' | Al S. Holt ; Len Spencer |
Descriptive scene |
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| C-1968 | 11/23/1904 | Krausmeyer and his dog | Al S. Holt ; Len Spencer |
Descriptive scene |
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| B-1968 | 11/23/1904 | Hans Krausmeyer and his dog Schneider | Al S. Holt ; Len Spencer |
Descriptive scene |
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| B-2101 | 12/29/1904 | Reuben and Cynthia | Ada Jones ; Len Spencer |
Descriptive scene, with female-male vocal duet and orchestra |
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| B-2103 | 12/29/1904 | The hand of fate | Ada Jones ; Len Spencer |
Descriptive scene |
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| B-2515 | 5/3/1905 | Mr. and Mrs. Murphy | Ada Jones ; Len Spencer |
Descriptive scene, with female-male vocal duet and orchestra |
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| B-2518 | 5/3/1905 | Anthony and Cleopatra | Ada Jones ; Len Spencer |
Descriptive scene |
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| B-2586 | 5/31/1905 | The professor and the musical tramp | Parke Hunter ; Len Spencer |
Descriptive scene, with banjo |
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| C-2586 | 5/31/1905 | The professor and the musical tramp | Parke Hunter ; Len Spencer |
Descriptive scene, with banjo and orchestra |
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| B-2587 | 5/31/1905 | Old barn dance in Dixie | Parke Hunter ; Len Spencer |
Descriptive scene, with banjo and orchestra |
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| B-2676 | 6/27/1905 | Katrina's valentine | Ada Jones ; Len Spencer |
Descriptive scene, with orchestra |
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| B-2677 | 6/27/1905 | Louis and Lena | Ada Jones ; Len Spencer |
Descriptive scene, with orchestra |
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| B-2678 | 6/27/1905 | Every little bit helps | Ada Jones ; Len Spencer |
Descriptive scene, with female-male vocal duet |
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| E-2678 | 12/6/1906 | Every little bit helps | Ada Jones ; Len Spencer |
Descriptive scene, with female-male vocal duet |
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| B-2679 | 6/27/1905 | At the vaudeville smoker | Len Spencer |
Recitation, with orchestra |
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| C-2762 | 9/20/1905 | The musical Yankee | Len Spencer |
Descriptive scene, with orchestra |
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| B-2764 | 9/20/1905 | The courtship of Barney and Eileen | Ada Jones ; Len Spencer |
Descriptive scene, with orchestra |
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| C-2764 | 9/20/1905 | Courtship of Barney and Eileen | Ada Jones ; Len Spencer |
Descriptive scene, with orchestra |
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| B-2765 | 9/20/1905 | The fair fisher and her catch | Ada Jones ; Len Spencer |
Descriptive scene, with orchestra |
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| B-2864 | 11/3/1905 | The golden wedding | Ada Jones ; Len Spencer |
Descriptive scene, with female-male vocal duet and orchestra |
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| B-2866 | 11/3/1905 | Fritz and Louisa | Ada Jones ; Len Spencer |
Descriptive scene, with female vocal solo and orchestra |
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| E-2866 | 11/3/1905 | Fritz and Louisa | Ada Jones ; Len Spencer |
Descriptive scene, with female vocal solo and orchestra |
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| B-2884 | 11/14/1905 | Auction sale of a toy store | Al S. Holt ; Len Spencer |
Descriptive scene |
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| B-2885 | 11/14/1905 | A barnyard serenade | Al S. Holt ; Len Spencer |
Descriptive scene |
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| B-2958 | 12/15/1905 | The original Cohens | Ada Jones ; Len Spencer |
Descriptive scene |
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| C-2959 | 12/15/1905 | Chimmie and Maggie at the Hippodrome | Ada Jones ; Len Spencer |
Descriptive scene, with orchestra |
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| B-3188 | 3/16/1906 | Mandy and her man | Ada Jones ; Len Spencer |
Comic dialogue, with orchestra |
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| E-3188 | 3/16/1906 | Mandy and her man | Ada Jones ; Len Spencer |
Comic dialogue, with orchestra |
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| C-3189 | 3/16/1906 | Maggie Clancey's grand piano | Ada Jones ; Len Spencer |
Comic dialogue, with piano |
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| C-3192 | 3/21/1906 | The happy German twins | Len Spencer ; George P. Watson |
Male vocal solo (yodeling), with orchestra |
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| E-3192 | 3/21/1906 | The happy German twins | Len Spencer ; George P. Watson |
Male vocal solo (yodeling) |
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| B-3193 | 3/21/1906 | A matrimonial chat | Len Spencer |
Monologue, with orchestra |
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| C-3249 | 4/5/1906 | The jokesmiths | Billy Murray ; Len Spencer |
Comic dialogue, with orchestra |
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| C-3250 | 4/5/1906 | Pat and Mike Magee | Billy Murray ; Len Spencer |
Descriptive scene, with orchestra |
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| C-3319 | 4/19/1906 | Bashful Henry and lovin' Lucy | Ada Jones ; Len Spencer |
Descriptive scene, with orchestra |
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| C-3320 | 4/19/1906 | Hans and Gretchen | Ada Jones ; Len Spencer |
Descriptive scene and vocal, with orchestra |
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| E-3320 | 2/28/1907 | Hans and Gretchen | Ada Jones ; Len Spencer |
Descriptive scene and vocal, with orchestra |
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| B-3383 | 5/11/1906 | Flannigan's St. Patrick's Day | Ada Jones ; Len Spencer |
Descriptive scene, with orchestra |
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| B-3384 | 5/11/1906 | Flannigan's night off | Ada Jones ; Len Spencer |
Descriptive scene and vocal, with orchestra |
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| B-3440 | 6/5/1906 | Travel on | Ada Jones ; Len Spencer |
Descriptive scene and vocal |
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| B-3442 | 6/5/1906 | Coming home from Coney Isle | Ada Jones ; Len Spencer |
Descriptive scene and vocal, with orchestra |
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| E-3442 | 6/5/1906 | Coming home from Coney Isle | Ada Jones ; Len Spencer |
Descriptive scene and vocal, with orchestra |
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| B-3785 | 9/11/1906 | Jimmie and Maggie at the ball game | Ada Jones ; Len Spencer |
Descriptive scene and vocal, with orchestra |
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| E-3785 | 9/11/1906 | Jimmie and Maggie at the ball game | Ada Jones ; Len Spencer |
Descriptive scene and vocal, with orchestra |
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| C-3786 | 9/11/1906 | Down on the farm | Ada Jones ; Len Spencer |
Descriptive scene, with orchestra |
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| B-3910 | 10/18/1906 | Italian specialty | Ada Jones ; Len Spencer |
Descriptive scene and vocal, with orchestra |
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| B-4090 | 12/6/1906 | Rosie and Rudolph at the skating rink | Ada Jones ; Len Spencer |
Descriptive scene and vocal, with orchestra |
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| E-4090 | 1/28/1907 | Rosie and Rudolph at the skating rink | Ada Jones ; Len Spencer |
Descriptive scene and vocal, with orchestra |
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| B-4225 | 1/28/1907 | How Matt got the mitten | Ada Jones |
Comic dialogue, with orchestra |
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| B-4277 | 2/28/1907 | Becky and Izzy | Ada Jones ; Len Spencer |
Comic dialogue, with orchestra |
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| E-4277 | 2/28/1907 | Becky and Izzy | Ada Jones ; Len Spencer |
Comic dialogue, with orchestra |
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| B-4456 | 5/2/1907 | Blondy and her Johnny at an East Side ball | Ada Jones ; Len Spencer |
Descriptive scene and vocal(?), with orchestra |
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| B-4457 | 5/2/1907 | Henry's return | Ada Jones ; Len Spencer |
Comic dialogue, with orchestra |
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| B-4556 | 6/4/1907 | Minnie and Herman | Ada Jones ; Len Spencer |
Descriptive scene and vocal, with orchestra |
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| C-4557 | 6/4/1907 | Jimmie and Maggie in nickel-land | Ada Jones ; Len Spencer |
Descriptive scene and vocal, with orchestra |
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| B-4847 | 10/1/1907 | The stranded circus | Gilbert Girard ; Len Spencer |
Descriptive scene |
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| E-4847 | 10/1/1907 | The stranded circus | Gilbert Girard ; Len Spencer |
Descriptive scene |
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| B-5002 | 1/8/1908 | Sim and Sam | Mozarto ; Len Spencer |
Descriptive scene and novelty instrumentals, with orchestra |
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| B-5049 | 1/31/1907 | Schoolday frolics | Ada Jones ; Len Spencer |
Descriptive scene and vocal solo, with orchestra |
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| B-5050 | 1/31/1908 | Muggsy's dream | Ada Jones ; Len Spencer |
Descriptive scene, with orchestra |
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| B-5051 | 1/31/1908 | Jimmie and Maggie at the Merry Widow | Ada Jones ; Len Spencer |
Descriptive scene and vocal, with orchestra |
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| B-6192 | 5/12/1908 | Fun at the music counter | Ada Jones ; Len Spencer |
Descriptive scene, with orchestra |
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| B-6289 | 7/3/1908 | Henny and Hilda at the Schützenfest | Len Spencer ; Len Spencer |
Descriptive scene, with orchestra |
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| B-6291 | 7/3/1908 | House-cleaning time | Ada Jones ; Len Spencer |
Descriptive scene, with orchestra |
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| B-6475 | 9/28/1908 | Jim Jackson's affinity | Ada Jones ; Len Spencer |
Descriptive scene, with orchestra |
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| B-6592 | 11/10/1908 | Pauline, Otto, and Fido | Ada Jones ; Len Spencer |
Descriptive scene, with orchestra |
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| B-8088 | 7/2/1909 | Mammy Chloe and her Joe | Ada Jones ; Len Spencer |
Descriptive scene, with orchestra |
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| B-8089 | 7/2/1909 | How Kathleen proposed | Ada Jones ; Len Spencer |
Descriptive scene, with orchestra |
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| B-8090 | 7/2/1909 | Zeb Green's airship | Ada Jones ; Len Spencer |
Descriptive scene, with orchestra |
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| C-8405 | 11/29/1909 | A race for a wife | Ada Jones ; Len Spencer |
Descriptive scene, with orchestra |
