American Treasure Tour

The Music Room has record albums, movie posters and celebrity photographs covering the walls. Located in the room are a majority of the collection's nickelodeons, dolls, dollhouses, and photoplayers, as well as the MBSI music boxes.[5] The guides use modern iPad technology to turn on selected nickelodeons and instructional videos for visitors. Tours include the playing of numerous machines and brief historical stories told by the guide about the era during which the machines were popular.[6] There are over 150 automatic music machines on display in the Music Room. Highlights among them include:

• Two Wurlitzer Harps - one in Style A, the other in Style B[7]
• Two Wurlitzer IX Electric Pianos (one of which is from the Paul Eakins collection, formerly the Gay 90's Village in St. Louis, and distinctive for its red keys)[8]
• The Wurlitzer LX adorned with a novel 'wonder light' affixed at its top[9]
• The Mills Violano-Virtuoso DeLuxe, constructed with two violins and an internal piano[10]
• Wurlitzer Mandolin PianOrchestra Style 12, dominated by a 'wonder light' shaped like a peacock and composed of 37 violin and violoncello pipes, a piano, and a percussion section[11]
• Sextrola Style B, one of the last machines produced by the North Tonawanda Musical Instrument Works prior to its takeover by the Rand Company.[12]
• Seeburg Style C, which dates to the early nineteen 'teens,[13] and the Style H, which is dominated by wooden statues named "Beauty" and "Strength.",[14]
• Seeburg Style R Pipe-Organ Orchestra Photo Player once complemented the silent films in a large theater, prior to the advent of sound on film.[15]
• D.C. Ramey Piano Company Banjo Orchestra - a newer machine designed to emulate older machines.[16]

DC Ramey Banjo Orchestra

• The music box collection includes examples from the Baker Company, Mira, Stella, Regina, Criterion, Capitol Cuff, and numerous others, all of which were produced in the United States and Europe around the turn of the 20th century.[17]
• Other nickelodeons on display include: Seeburg Style A, Style C, Style E, Style F, Style L, Celesta. Berry Wood AOHR, Style 15, Style F. Wurlitzer 88 Note, Style A, Style AX, Mandolin-Sextette, Style SA.
• Also on display is a Link Trainer, created by the Edwin Link Jr, which incorporated nickelodeon technology for an early flight simulator.

The Toy Box takes up the majority of the space in the American Treasure Tour. Visitors are driven in an electric tram down lanes displayed with an eclectic collection of Americana on both sides and hanging from the ceiling. Tours are conducted by guides who discuss the items, including: model airplanes, classic cars, more automatic musical instruments, original artwork, movie memorabilia and Disneyana, stuffed animals, animated store displays, motorcycles, and neon signage.[18] Highlights include:

• Three of only 11 (possibly 12 or more) surviving Wurlitzer #165 band organs
• The only known surviving Wurlitzer #175 band organ

Th. Mortier Dance Hall Organ, The Emperor - Located in the American Treasure Tour

• "The Emperor" Th. Mortier Dance Hall Organ[19]
• "Sadie Mae" Gavioli & Cie. band organ, formerly of the Paul Eakins collection[20]
• "The Mammoth" Wurlitzer Military Band Organ, also known as a Wurlitzer Style #160.
• A giant shoe used for a promotion in Manhattan's Madison Square Park to promote the short-lived cable network Wedding Central[21]
• One of Eric Staller's Conference Bikes[22]
• The 2009 Guinness Book of World Records-winning Popsicle Stick Structure - a castle created by one man[23]
• Many classic cars, such as a 1905 Franklin, two Sears Motorbuggies, two Vespa 400 automobiles, two 1956 Ford Thunderbirds, a 1954 Pennant Blue Corvette as well as more modern Corvettes, a 1922 Stanley Steamer, a 1924 Cadillac 7-seat sedan, a 1907 ABC, a 1914 Maxwell, a 1914 Liberty Brush, a 1914 Woods Mobilette, a 1951 Crosley VC Hotshot, and over sixty others.

1922 Stanley Steamer

The anonymous owner of the collection that comprises the majority of the American Treasure Tour (sans the MBSI collection) continues to regularly bring in new pieces, which are incorporated into the tours whenever space allows.