Print

Print


Foreign Language Records were offered in catalogues before 1910. Dealers in
areas with large immigrant populations knew what they could sell, so much of
the interest was generated by them. New York, Chicago, Milwaukee, Buffalo,
Cleveland, Minneapolis, St. Louis and San Francisco would have been the
principal markets. Unfortunately, as collectors know, the special-interest
catalogues and supplements issued through the decades were ephemerae that
survived only accidentally. Far more attention and research has attended the
"Race" catalogues than the foreign-language categories.

DDR

On Sun, Jan 2, 2000 at 2:04 AM, Eric Byron <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> I have been trying to figure out how the recording companies informed the
> various retail outlets about what ethnic recordings they had for sale.  I
> assume that at least by the 1920s companies, such as Victor and Columbia,
> had catalogues similar to the ones that they issued for their regular
> recordings. In fact, the 1923 Catalogue of Victor Records suggests that if
> one wants more information on their Hebrew and Italian recordings they
> should look at the Hebrew Catalogue and Italian Catalogue. I have looked for
> these catalogues online, but I have not found anything.
>
>
>
> My questions include the following:
>
>
>
> How did the companies inform the retail outlets about what they had for
> sale?
>
> If they issued catalogues for the various ethnic groups, for which groups
> did they issue the catalogues?
>
> When did they start issuing catalogues for anybody and for whom?
>
>
>
> Most importantly, is it possible to get an ethnic catalogue, if such a
> thing existed, from you?
>
>
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
>
>
> Eric Byron
>



-- 
Dennis D. Rooney
303 W. 66th Street, 9HE
New York, NY 10023
212.874.9626