[78-L] Did Victor, Columbia and other record companies issue catalogues in the various immigrant languages?

[Eric Byron]

Dear Benno Häupl,

Thank you.  I really do appreciate.  I am going to check out the New York 
Public Library to see if they have anything. I will also contact the Library 
of Congress.

Take care,

Eric



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Benno Häupl" <goldenbough at arcor.de>
To: <78-l at 78online.com>
Sent: Sunday, September 18, 2011 9:12 PM
Subject: Re: [78-L] Did Victor, Columbia and other record companies issue 
catalogues in the various immigrant languages?


> .
> Both Victor and Columbia issued such leaflets and booklets for their
> various Ethnic series.
>
> Spanish, Mexican, German, French, Italian, Czech, Polish, Russian,
> Ukrainian, Slovak, Arabian-Syrian, Bulgarian, Chinese, Danish, Finnish,
> Swedish, Hebrew-Jewish, Dutch, Hungarian, Lithuanian, Norwegian,
> Portuguese, Roumanian (sic), Swiss, Welsh, Irish, Greek, Turkish.
>
> Columbia also had a little 'International' catalog (like 8 pages) for
> Christmas, all records in their E-xxxx series.
>
> Victor published in 1940 a 48 page booklet for their "International 
> Records ("V" Series) -
> Complete Alphabetical Catalogue (sic) of all languages". "Victor Spanish 
> records
> are not included in this Catalogue", but "Included is a list of the latest
> Greek and Turkish Orthophonic Label Records of the "S" Series".
>
> From Vocalion I have only seen several 'Mexican' catalogs, although they
> were very strong in Polish records.
>
> The HMV archives in Hayes, Middlesex, has many ethnic Victor catalogs.
> Should not the LofC have such material?
>
> Benno
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