[78-L] How many records are around?

[Michael Biel]

From: DAVID BURNHAM <burnhamd at rogers.com>

> I heard somewhere recently, (don't know where, perhaps on this list), that the library of congress has 9,000,000 78s.
>
> db


jack palmer wrote:
> You may be right, 

I've already posted that this was wrong.


> but I was only able to locate about 20 Dalhart records when  I visited the LOC about 5 years ago.     Jack
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>   

They need your collection.  But were you looking thru the Recorded Sound 
division or the Archive of Folk Culture?   They are two separate sections. 

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com