Welte-Mignon Advertisements Collection

Guidelines

The principles below are those that every TEI file of the collection states in its <encodingDesc>.

Selection

The collection gathers print advertisements for the Welte-Mignon reproducing piano that appeared between 1905 and 1930 and were published by M. Welte & Söhne, by one of its licensees, or by a dealer or agent selling the instrument. Each advertisement is encoded once; its further printings, in the same or in other periodicals, are listed as further sources.

The advertisements were found in digitised newspapers and magazines: Chronicling America (Library of Congress), the British Newspaper Archive, HathiTrust (copies of the Universities of California, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota and Virginia), the Internet Archive, the Digitale Sammlungen of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, ANNO (Austrian National Library), the International Arcade Museum Library, Georgia Historic Newspapers, Delpher (KB, National Library of the Netherlands), eluxemburgensia (National Library of Luxembourg), RetroNews (Bibliothèque nationale de France), the archives of Le Temps, the Nasjonalbiblioteket of Norway, Mediestream (Royal Danish Library), the National Library of Latvia (through Europeana), Canadiana, the Hemeroteca Nacional Digital de México, the St Petersburg State Theatre Library, Trove (National Library of Australia), the newspapers of the Kungliga biblioteket of Sweden, e-newspaperarchives.ch, BAnQ numérique (Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec), the Biblioteca Virtual de Prensa Histórica, the archive of ABC and ARCA (Biblioteca de Catalunya).

Transcription

Each file transcribes one printing of an advertisement, the one whose scan its facsimile zones refer to; @decls on <text> points to its <sourceDesc>. The further printings were identified as the same advertisement but not collated word for word; differences that were noticed are recorded with <app> or in a note.

The regions and lines of the scans were mostly marked in eScriptorium and converted from PAGE XML to TEI. The text was in part recognised automatically (HTR) and corrected against the scan, in part transcribed by hand. The advertisements published outside Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States were transcribed from the scans, encoded, given their regions and annotated with topics by Claude, an AI model; their revision history says so.

Errors

Errors of the original are not corrected but marked with <sic>.

Spelling

Spelling and punctuation follow the original and are not normalised. Text set in capitals is often transcribed in mixed case and marked with the rendition #uc.

Hyphenation

Hyphens at the end of a line are kept as printed.

Regions and lines

Every region of the original page is a <div> that points to its zone in the <facsimile> with @facs. The lines of the original are marked with <lb>; the typography is recorded with @rendition. The zones refer to the first <graphic> of a <surface>, the scan they were drawn on. Where the holding library serves the page through IIIF, a second <graphic> of the type IIIF gives that image and its size.

Annotation

Parts of an advertisement that concern other products than the Welte-Mignon are not transcribed but marked with <gap>, which describes them in a <desc>. Illustrations are described in <figure>. Persons are linked to the GND with @corresp. Recurring motifs are marked as topics with @ana on <seg> and <figure>, pointing to the taxonomy of topics; these are an interpretation, by whom @resp says.

Dates

Dates of publication are given in ISO 8601 in @when, as precisely as they are known.

Typography

The values of @rendition are defined in CSS:

Topics

The topics are: Affordability, Analogy to Phonograph, Analogy to Photography, Analysis, Artistic Accompaniment, Atmosphere, Dance, Distinction from Mechanical, Educational Use, Entertainment, Exact Reproduction, Home, Hostess, Immediate Recognizability, Immortality, Invisibility, Jazz, Revelled Listening, Miracle, Personality, Phantom Body, Popular, Repeatability, Secret, Sitting Woman, Soulfulness, Suit every Mood, Superiority, Technical Invention, Touch of a Button, Ideal Instrument, Virtual Presence.

<gap reason="irrelevant">
    <desc resp="#np">
        The ad also includes texts for "Pathe",
        "Pianos and Player-Pianos" and
        "Victor Victrolas and Victor Records".
    </desc>
</gap>