[78-L] 78 album covers

[Ted Kneebone]

I am not sure what date is being used when writing about about the creator 
of the first illustrated album covers.  It is possible that history does not 
record the name of the first person(s) who designed early albums.  In my 
collection there are some of those albums that I am sure are quite old. 
Here are some I know about, not all are still in my collection:

Columbia.  Mozart: Divertimento K 287, strings & horns. Goberman ensemble 
with Szigeti as violin     soloist.  Blue with colored circles.  Many of 
their albums used this pattern.
Victor.  Musorgskii: Pictures at an exhibition.  Koussevitzky & Boston sym 
orch.  Brown or rust         colored, with some kind of embossing.  Many of 
their albums used this pattern.
Decca.  Bing Crosby album.  Photo of Crosby on the cover.  A booklet 
enclosed.
Musicraft.  Sylvia Marlowe playing Scarlatti sonatas.  I think there was a 
photo of a harpsichord on it.

Except for the Crosby album, I suppose these albums could not be called 
"illustrated" -- but they surely were housed in more than brown sleeves! 
Some of these should have carried the name of the designer.

I discovered, to my sadness, that water and those old albums do not mix.  I 
had to discard many of them after a flood in my basement "melted" them.  The 
discs survived well, but the albums did not.

Ted Kneebone. 1528 S. Grant St., Aberdeen, SD 57401. Phone: 605-226-3344.