I am looking to buy 78 rpm records (Mostly, pre-WWII electric recordings by African American artists and integrated groups….yet there are certainly exceptions). Label examples: Columbia, Okeh, Victor, Vocalion, Gennett, QRS, Brunswick, Paramount, Herwin, ARC, Bluebird, etc.)
- Uncommon country and string bands
Jug bands
Gospel
Blues & Jazz
Cajun
Historical and spoken word
Native American
Hot dance bands
Recordings with kazoo and/or washboard
Early Berliners (mostly 1896 and earlier)
Very early Eldridge Johnson or Victor
Victor Deluxe or Columbia 14” discs from ~1902-03
Pre 1904 operatic
Foreign (Latin American, eastern Europe, Russian, South African, Cuban)
Early advertising records
- Early brown wax, mostly pre-1899
Edison North American (these have a channeled end rim)
Operatic
AICC recordings
Bettini
Peter Bacigalupi
Polyphone
Bell & Tainter
Independent recordings (examples include Kansas City Talking Machine Company, Michigan Electric, Ohio Phonograph Company, US Phonograph Company, etc.)
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