[78-L] Album covers & sleeve info

[Ted Kneebone]

In going thru part of my "collection" of 78s, I find both albums and 
sleeves.

1.  Albums go from plain to very plain.  Just the name of the work, 
performers, album number.  My copy of the Bloch Concerto Grosso is brown and 
very plain, with gold stamping, Victor.
2.  The Columbia albums are either blue or green with circles containing the 
info. And most of them are grey with info in a box.  Very plain.
3.  The sleeves are interesting. Acoustic sleeves sometimes have line 
drawings of the artist.  On the back are lists of other records by same 
artist, or other artist. The acoustic sleeves are really quite interesting: 
type styles, line drawings of artists, line drawings of phonographs, etc. 
The electric era was boring in comparison.
4.  The sleeves for electric discs say "Victor" or "Columbia" and on the 
reverse are long lists of other classical discs.
5.  Record companies of the day seemed to want to hide dates from the 
consumers. I don't think I have a single record, album, or sleeve with a 
date.  LP era didn't change that.  That really frustrated me in my duties as 
cataloger of LPs at Northern State.  The printed LC cards had dates.  I 
don't know where the LC librarians found the dates.  I think it was sometime 
in the late 1960s or early 1970s when dates started appearing on the versos 
of LP jackets.  I don't recall ever finding dates on the record labels.  The 
CD era changed all that.  Most of my CDs have dates.
6.  I have tried to scan some of my sleeves and albums, but for some reason 
I can't locate them on my computer when done scanning!  Maybe I don't know 
how to use this new HP scanner.  Think I will go back to my Acer.

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