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----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom" <[log in to unmask]> > Is there any reference publication of printed 78-rpm record sleeves with the > dates of when various sleeves were used? The ones that were originally sold > with the record. > As part of the digitizing of the Arhoolie Foundation's Strachwitz Collection > of Mexican and Mexican American Recordings we are scanning the original > Spanish Language 78 sleeves. Many of the major labels and many Indies > printed their sleeves in Spanish. Columbia, for instance, had several > versions in Spanish and we'd like to know the dates these where used. Is > there a "The Big 78-rpm Record Sleeve Pictography" book? > Has anyone ever dated 78 record sleeves? (ha!, ha!) Can anyone help? To my knowledge, no one has ever done a "sleeve dating guide"...I certainly didn't explore that area in my Dating Guide! However, because I have a large number of records. and many of them are in sleeves, I can give you a rough idea of pre-WWII dates (and later dates for major labels). I'd need to see them, though! Where sleeves list popular records of the day on labels, you can get a general idea by dating these issues. However, this practice seemed to stop in the 1930\s or so. In fact, many "indie" labels of the prolific post-WWII period used blank generic sleeves...and much of the ethnic material of that era appeared on such labels. Steven C. Barr [log in to unmask]