Written by Herbert A. Shattuck, advertising manager of the National Phonograph Co., The Phonogram was a company publication from May 1900 until Shattuck's resignation in October 1902. It succeeded a publication of the same title, which was issued by the North American Phonograph Co. during the early 1890s.

The archives of the Edison National Historical Park contains fifteen of the twenty-nine monthly issues. The May 1900 issue has been selected as a sample.