[78-L] Ethnic Folkways Library: Music of Sioux and Navajo

[Michael Biel]

On 1/2/2011 7:48 PM, Gregg Kimball wrote:
> I just got a set of these discs in very nice shape as well as the booklet that came with them.  How were these originally packaged? If anyone has a spare of the packaging, I would love to have it. I know it's a long shot.  I have dups of three of the four records if anyone needs to complete a set and is interested in a trade.
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> Gregg Kimball

I wouldn't be surprised if the packaging changed over the years.  I've 
got two copies of one of the later ethnic series albums and one copy is 
in a box and the other in a heavy jacket with internal divider like was 
used for a single LP and booklet.

  I just got the CD of the Harry Smith American folk anthology and they 
describe the packaging as "six LPs in three hinged two-record 
sets--contraptions (soon replaced by boxes) that suggest less a likely 
mechanism for delivery of recorded music than a cryptic homage to a 
lapsed patent that, dating from some time before the First World War, 
understandably failed to catch on."

  I'm wondering if this might have been an attached pair of three-fold 
like Victor used for the exercise set among other things, and later was 
used by Decca for things like The Boys From Syracuse.  With your four 
record set, maybe it was a four pocket foldout, but later a box.

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com