Record company catalogs and ephemera collection

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Description: The Record Company Catalogs and Ephemera collection includes catalogs of record releases and various advertising ephemera generated by record companies and distributed to record dealers around the world.
Names: Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound (Contributor)
Dates / Origin: Date Created: 1892 - 2009
Library locations: Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound; Shelf locator: *L (Special) 20-3
Topics: Advertising; Record labels; Sound recording industry -- United States
Genres: Ephemera; Catalogs; Advertisements
Notes: Biographical/historical: With the birth of the commercial recording industry in the 1890s, record companies began issuing catalogs, brochures, and other print advertising of their recordings. Initially, these included simple lists of titles, artists, and publisher's numbers of recordings. Eventually, the materials came to include posters, fliers, detailed monthly supplements, press releases, and numerical catalogs listing all recordings released to date by a company.
Physical Description: Extent: 684 boxes, one flat drawer 214 linear feet
Type of Resource: Text; Still image
Identifiers: Other local Identifier: *L (Special) 20-3; NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b23128711; MSS Unit ID: 185446; Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): ba08e9f0-e25e-013d-581b-0242ac110002

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