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

[Gregg Kimball]

Thanks for the reply, Mike.  I think the packaging on this one might have 
been a box, since the liner notes measure about 8 1/2 by 11 and they don't 
look like they've been folded.

Gregg


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Biel" <mbiel at mbiel.com>
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Sent: Monday, January 03, 2011 3:27 AM
Subject: Re: [78-L] Ethnic Folkways Library: Music of Sioux and Navajo


> 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.
>>
>> 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
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