Items
All 374 items in this archive, newest first.
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Eduardo das Neves
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Victor Recordings Map
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“Flores Negras”
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“Se va y se va”
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“Flores de pascuas”
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“Corazón de nieve”
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“Tras de las verdes colinas”
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“Cordobesa”
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“No leito”
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“El nocturno”
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“Mi morocha”
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“Mulato chofer”
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“La machicha”
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Juan Soldado
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Blind Lemon Jefferson, "Long Lonesome Blues"
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Mário de Andrade, Ensaio sobre Musica Brasileira
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Mário de Andrade, 1928
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Vernon Dalhart, "Home on the Range"
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John Lomax and Uncle Rich Brown, 1940
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The Grimm Brothers' Children and Household Tales
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Advertisement for "Penitentiary Blues"
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Cover Page of John Lomax's Cowboy Songs
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Aunt Harriet McClention, dancing for John A. Lomax, Sr., as she sang "Shing, Shing," at the crossroads near Sumterville, Ala.
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Under a Texas Moon
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S.H. Dudley
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The Laughing Song
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The Laughing Song
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Gallery of Talent Employed for Making Records
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Edison Brown Wax Cylinders
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Edison Gold Moulded Cylinder Record
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Catalogue of Standard New Jersey Records: for the Edison Phonograph
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You Can't Keep a Good Man Down
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Butler "String Beans" May
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T.O.B.A. Letterhead
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Gossip of the Stage
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What's What on the Dudley Circuit
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Dudley Circuit Advertisement
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Black Caribbean map
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Luis Russell
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Pixinguinha
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Donga
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Gladys Bentley
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Pelo Telefone sheet music
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Donga in 1972
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Tin Pan Alley, 1910
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Caruso Ad
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O Sole Mio
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"Vesti la Giubba (On With the Play)" from Leoncavallo's opera Pagliacci
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Caruso as Canio in Leoncavallo's opera, Pagliacci, 1908
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Irving Berlin's Nine Rules
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Victor catalog 1917
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Red Seal Advertisement
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Caruso, Victor Records catalog, 1915
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Memphis Blues
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Lovey's String Band Advertisement
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Son clave
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Donga
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Memphis Blues
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Nathaniel Shilkret
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Imposible
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Agustín Lara
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Boda negra
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Jorge Añez and Alcides Briceño
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Ya ves
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Sufra
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Mi noche triste
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Mi noche triste
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Sly Mongoose
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Susan Monkey Walk
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Sam Manning
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Lionel Belasco
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Good Night Ladies and Gents
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Renaissance Casino and Ballroom, 1920s
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Dancers, Savoy Ballroom, circa 1930
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Luis Russell Band, NYC 1928
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UNIA parade in Harlem, 1920
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Central America, the West Indies South America and portions of the United States and Mexico.
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Caribbean map with Jamaica, Cuba, and Trinidad
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Display window of Ansell, Bishop & Turner, Inc., a shop dealing in Victrolas and Victor records at 1221 F Street, N.W., Washington, D.C.
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Sohmer piano ad
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Down Home Blues
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Advertisement for Black Swan Records
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Victor Race Records Catalog
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Columbia race records; the latest blues by Columbia colored stars.
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Okeh record catalog
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Lionel Belasco
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Slow Brakes
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Iron Duke in the Land
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Nat Shilkret and the Victor Salon Orchestra, 1926
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Ingratitud
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Adiós, Adiós
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Charles Stanley Althouse, Victor recording scout
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Victor Records Factory, Camden, NJ
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Jazz Me Blues
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Thomas Alva Edison with early phonograph
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[Untitled]
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Theater Owners' Booking Association
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S.H. Dudley Circuit
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Tri-State Circuit
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Bert Williams
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St. Louis Blues
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Hesitation Blues
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Strut Miss Lizzie
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Donkey and Driver
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Whispering
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Alexander's Ragtime Band
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Maple Leaf Rag
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Paul Whiteman
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Louis Armstrong
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Irving Berlin
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Scott Joplin
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Alexander's Ragtime Band sheet music cover
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Maple Leaf Rag sheet music cover
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Barrel House Blues
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Amor Sublime
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Charleston
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An Evening with the Minstrels, No. 6
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Lanceros de "La Geisha" - Fig. 1
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Amapa
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Aloha oe
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Down Hearted Blues
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San Lorenzo
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Mi Refugio
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La Cumparsita
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Phonographic violin made by George Evans and Company, London, about 1920
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Sousa numbers
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Mary had a little lamb
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Ad for Henry Whitter Records
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Can't You Hear Me Callin' Caroline?
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Cora
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12 Bar with Lyrics
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12 Bar Blues Chords
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Pabellón de las Rosas, Buenos Aires, circa 1910
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"Stroh" violin
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Patent for "Stroh" violin (March 6, 1900)
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Nobody
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Morton Harvey Ad
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Morton Harvey Describes Recording
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Memphis Blues Sheet Music
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Prohibition Blues
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Baseball Game
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Uncle Josh at the Opera
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Bob Manchester's Cracker Jacks advertisment
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Keith's Palace Theater program
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Advertisement for Southern Syncopated Orchestra
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Advertisement for Blue Flame Syncopaters
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Graúna
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Escovado
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Oito Batutas
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“Cakewalk” sheet music
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Rio de Janeiro, 1910
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Victor Talking Machine Company orchestra
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Native American man listening to recording
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Castle House Rag
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Ragging the Scale
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St. Louis Rag
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La Pas Ma La
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All Coons Look Alike to Me
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Sexteto Habanero Godínez
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Original Dixieland Jazz Band advertisement
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Mi Noche Triste
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Rosa Que Linda Eres
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Pelo Telephone
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Arquímedes Pous
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King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band
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Jelly Roll Morton
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Map of New Orleans, Cuba, and Mexico
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Dippermouth Blues
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The Crave
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La Patti Negra
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L'Emigrante Siciliano (The Sicilian Emigrant)
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Advertisement for Ethnic Recordings
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Sahara (We'll Soon Be Dry Like You)
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Chase the Beast
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369th Infantry Regiment band led by James Reese Europe
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Claflin University Band
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A Full Brass Band Composed of Women
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Hinsdale Brass Band
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Band of 107th U.S. Colored Infantry
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Missouri Blues
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A Coon Band Contest
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El Capitan
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'Joe Turner Blues' Medley
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Alabama Jubilee Medley
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Auntie Skinner's Chicken Dinner Medley
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Banjo Display at Kentucky Bluegrass Museum
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Music of the Ethiopian Serenaders
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Boucher Five-String Fretless Banjo
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Enslaved Africans dance to banjo, 1780s
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Loca
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A Media Luz
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Siempre Criolla
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Aloha oe
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Patrick "Patsy" Touhey
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Al Bernard
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Victor Advertisement, 1925
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Avenida de Mayo, Buenos Aires
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Odeon advertisement (1923)
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Odeon advertisement (1925)
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Francisco Canaro
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Victor
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Roberto Firpo
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Carlos Gardel
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Ignacio Corsini
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Rosita Quiroga
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Max Glücksmann
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Stack of Barley Medley
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Victor Catalog Listing and Bio on Enrico Caruso
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"Foreign Records" Catalog Listing
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Catalog Listing of French Records
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Catalog Listing of Armenian Records
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Columbia German Records Catalog Cover
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Listing of Foreign Piano Rolls
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Advertisement for John McCormack's Recordings
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Sheet music for "Irish Cake Walk"
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Photograph of the Toots Paka Hawaiian Troupe
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Finnish newspaper performance advertisement
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Scandinavian Accordian Record Advertisement
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Ethnic Records from Parsekian, Srpske Gusle, and Macksoud
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Columbia Records Advertisement shifting from language of "foreign" to "native" records
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Havdole gut Schabes
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Polka samo hód
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Sotilas poika
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Sommersol til sidste stund!
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Calamatiano
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Stornelli Siciliani
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Funiculi-funicula
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Irish Washerwoman - Medley of Jigs
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Newspaper article describing truth to “The Argentines, the Portuguese, and the Greeks”
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Down in Bom-Bombay
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Arab Love Song
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My Sahara Rose
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Chinese Blues
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Advertisement for "The Sheik of Avenue B"
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The Sheik of Avenue B
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"Nat'an" Advertisement
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Nat'an
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When Tony Goes Over the Top
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My Mariuccia
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It Takes the Irish to Beat the Dutch
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It Was the Dutch
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The German's Arrival
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Since Maggie Dooley Learned the Hooley-Hooley
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Pocahontas
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Indian War Dance
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I Wonder Where My Easy Rider's Gone
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Juan Carlos Cobián
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Orquesta Típica Fresedo
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Julio De Caro
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Celestino Ferrer
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Advertisement for Vernon and Irene Castle's performance mentioning the tango
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Quote from dancer in Europe commenting that the tango is crudely danced in the U.S.
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Vernon and Irene Castle
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Transnational advertisement for Victor Military Band records
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Advertisement that argues Victor Military Band will create productive future citizens
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Advertisement for Victor Military Band records for teaching children American patriotism
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John Phillip Sousa
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Advertisement for Patsy Touhey's self-made records
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Opinion piece on "Drowsy Maggie"
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Drowsy Maggie (Medley of Reels)
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Advertisement for "Dallas Blues"
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The Dallas Blues
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Victrola and "Yellow Dog Blues" advertisement
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"Yellow Dog Blues" Advertisement
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Yellow Dog Blues
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Newspaper article about song "I Ain't Got Nobody"
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I Ain't Got Nobody Much
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Advertisement for Columbia Records mentioning "The Argentines, the Portuguese and the Greeks"
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The Argentines, the Portuguese and the Greeks
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Some of These Days
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The Darktown Strutters’ Ball
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Crazy Blues
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Advertisement for John McCormack's recordings with Victor Records
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Advertisement for recording of Enrico Caruso and others in “The Garden Scene from Faust"
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Advertisement for Enrico Caruso's recording of "A Complete Act of Faust"
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Enrico Caruso
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Article describing Fanny Brice's ethnic humor
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Fanny Brice
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Opinion piece praising Sophie Tucker's talent and work ethic
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Article on Sophie Tucker dominating the jazz scene despite her ethnicity
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Advertisement for Sophie Tucker in vaudeville
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Sophie Tucker
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Newspaper article announcing Sippie Wallace signing with OKeh Records
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Sippie Wallace
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Newspaper article gossiping about Nora Bayes' romantic life
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Advertisement for "When Old Bill Bailey Plays the Ukulele"
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Advertisement for Columbia Records with Marion Harris
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Marion Harris
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Advertisement for Marie Cahill in "Nancy Brown"
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"Vaudeville Week" advertisement
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Marie Cahill
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Opinion piece about race records
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Mamie Smith
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Advertisement for Mamie Smith's records
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Advertisement for records of Ida Cox, Alberta Hunter, and Ma Rainey
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Advertisement for Ma Rainey
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Ma Rainey
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Ida Cox
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Advertisement for Alberta Hunter with Puritan Records
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Alberta Hunter advertisement
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Alberta Hunter
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Article on Al Bernard
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Advertisement for Bessie Smith's "Washwoman's Blues"
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Advertisement for Bessie Smith's "Spiderman Blues"
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Bessie Smith
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King of Ragtime
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Queen Liliuokalani
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Frank Ferera
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July and "Toots" Paka
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Arthur Collins
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Bert Williams
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Ernest Hogan
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Vernon Dalhart, "Wreck of the Old 97"
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Vernon Dalhart
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Ethiopian carnival of melody
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Good Night Angeline
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James Reese Europe
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Dixie Jass Band One-Step
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Livery Stable Blues
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Ragging the Songs Mother Used to Sing
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The Laughing Rag
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O'Brien is Tryin' to Learn to Talk Hawaiian
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They’re Wearing Them Higher in Hawaii
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Liaika Wai Mapuna
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Kamehameha, (King Kamehameha's favorite melody)
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Hawaii Ponoi
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Can't yo' Heah Me Callin' Caroline
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Wm. H. West's Big Minstrel Jubilee
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Mi refugio
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Orquesta Típica of bandoneon player Vicente Greco, circa 1915
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Sheet music cover for "Mi noche triste," one of the first tango songs with lyrics
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Candombe, by Uruguayan artist Pedro Figari
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Muchacho
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La payanca
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Rosa marchita
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Underneath the Tango Moon
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Tango del Ba-ta-clan
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Lukoumi Tango
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Los tabaqueros
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Amapa
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Habanera (Carmen)
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Vernon and Irene Castle demonstrating the tango, 1913
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Harry Pace
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St. Louis Blues sheet music cover
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Carmen
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I Don't Like that Face You Wear
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Bedelia, The Irish Coon Song Serenade
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When Old Bill Bailey Plays the Ukalele
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Nobody
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Bill Bailey Won’t You Please Come Home
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I’se Gwine Back to Dixie
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Old Folks at Home
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Milonguita
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Sobre el pucho
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El Pollito
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Tan rico el negro
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W.C. Handy
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St. Louis Blues
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Irresistible
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Original Dixieland Jazz Band
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Down Hearted Blues
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Boll Weevil Blues
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The Memphis Blues
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When Old Bill Bailey Plays the Ukelele
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Lovie Austin
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Nora Bayes
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Billy Murray
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Arthur Pryor
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Ada Jones
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Cal Stewart
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"Laughing Song" Sheet Music
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The Whistling Coon
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George W. Johnson
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The Laughing Song











































































































































































































































































































