Sound recording trade catalog collection, approximately 1893-2013
Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Sound recording trade catalog collection
- Dates:
- approximately 1893-2013
- Abstract:
- Sound recording manufacturer and distributor catalogs, primarily from the 78 rpm era (approximately 1900-1955).
- Extent:
- 159 Linear Feet (310 document boxes, and 20 half-document boxes)
- Language:
- English
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Sound recording trade catalog collection, PA Mss 26. Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Background
- Scope and content:
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The Sound recording trade catalog collection consists of over 5,000 manufacturer, distributor, and dealer catalogs of commercial sound recordings from the 19th-21st centuries. It contains annual catalogs, monthly supplements, numerical catalogs and other trade literature for companies around the world including Victor/RCA, Columbia, Brunswick, Edison, Decca, Gramophone Co., Pathé, Odeon, and others.
Catalogs from the 78rpm era are the bulk of the collection and there are many significant and rare catalogs including many numerical catalogs, foreign language catalogs and supplements, and catalogs from European companies.
- Acquisition information:
- The bulk of materials have been separated and assigned from the collections of William R. Moran (PA Mss 57), Edouard Pecourt (PA Mss 78), Benno Häupl (PA Mss 122), Allen G. Debus (PA Mss 121), Peter Martland (PA Mss 106), Verne Todd (PA Mss 1), and Harry and Grace James (former PA Mss 3). Additional materials have been acquired as gifts and purchases, 2013-2016.
- Processing information:
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The catalogs are arranged alphabetically by record company, and then chronologically for each company.
The country of issue for catalogs for overseas branches of a company are noted in brackets before the catalog title. For example, Italian Gramophone Co. catalogs for the Italian market are under Gramophone Co. as "[Italy] La Voce del Padrone: Catalogo Dischi 1948."
Page numbers have been added for later additions and will eventually be added for all catalogs. In cases where catalogs are for more than one label or where a label is a subsidiary of another, the catalog is listed under the first label represented or under the parent company. Whenever possible, cross references are provided where multiple labels are represented or where there may be confusion.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
About this collection guide
- Date Encoded:
- This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2026-03-10 10:38:27 -0700 .
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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The collection is open for research.
- Terms of access:
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Property rights to the collection and physical objects belong to the Regents of the University of California acting through the Department of Special Research Collections at the UCSB Library. All applicable literary rights, including copyright to the collection and physical objects, are protected under Chapter 17 of the U.S. Copyright Code and may be retained by the creator and the copyright owner, heir(s), or assigns.
All requests to reproduce, quote from, or otherwise reuse collection materials must be submitted in writing to the Department of Special Research Collections at UCSB at special@library.ucsb.edu. Consent is given on behalf of the Regents of the University of California acting through the Department of Special Research Collections at UCSB as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright owner, heir(s), or assigns. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or their assignees for permission to publish where the UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Sound recording trade catalog collection, PA Mss 26. Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
- Location of this collection:
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UC Santa Barbara LibrarySanta Barbara, CA 93106-9010, US
- Contact:
- (805) 893-3062