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Hearing the Americas

Columbia German Records Catalog Cover

Catalog cover

Title

Columbia German Records Catalog Cover

Description

Record companies usually made separate special issues of catalogs for individual ethnic groups rather than list ethnic recordings in their standard catalogs. This Columbia German Records Catalog cover is from one of those special issues. The cover illustration is meant to evoke nostalgia for German homelands.

Date

1921

Source

Library of Congress American Folklife Center,
Ethnic recordings in America: a neglected heritage

Type

Catalog cover
Record companies usually made separate special issues of catalogs for individual ethnic groups rather than list ethnic recordings in their standard catalogs. This Columbia German Records Catalog cover is from one of those special issues. The cover illustration is meant to evoke nostalgia for German homelands.