[78-L] CO-Burning Down The House Lbl

[Michael Biel]

jeffrey smedbron wrote:
> Here is kind of an attractive and different Columbia Label style I found last fall. Is this an American issue of German songs. Quite good choral music. Year ? Because of the colors I might generically call it the Christmas label, but the apparent dire situation depicted kind of rules that out. Maybe the Refugee label. Probably from an album set-Right? 
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> Label Pic: http://merr.com/users/xcentrik/fire.JPG 
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Album sets were quite unusual that early, so it certainly is not from an 
album set, but it is a part of a special series.  "Note the Notes" 
illustrates another label in the series with an illustration of a 
soldier,  a widow in black, and a young girl standing by a grave.  The 
description from the book reads:

"One of a series of pictorial label designs issued in 1916 and early 
1917 to benefit  Austrian and German widows and orphans during the First 
World War. When the U.S. declared war on Germany on April 6, 1917, this 
series came to an abrupt end."

Spottswood shows the session for your record as circa March 1916.

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com