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style="background-color: LightBlue">Victor Talking Machine Company</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:His_Master%27s_Voice.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/His_Master%27s_Voice.jpg/180px-His_Master%27s_Voice.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="135" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/His_Master%27s_Voice.jpg/270px-His_Master%27s_Voice.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/His_Master%27s_Voice.jpg/360px-His_Master%27s_Voice.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="898" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">"<a href="/wiki/His_Master%27s_Voice" title="His Master's Voice">His Master's Voice</a>" logo with <a href="/wiki/Nipper" title="Nipper">Nipper</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Founded</th><td class="infobox-data">1901<span class="noprint">; 123 years ago</span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">1901</span>)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Founder</th><td class="infobox-data agent"><a href="/wiki/Eldridge_R._Johnson" title="Eldridge R. Johnson">Eldridge R. Johnson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Emile_Berliner" title="Emile Berliner">Emile Berliner</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Status</th><td class="infobox-data">Acquired by <a href="/wiki/RCA" title="RCA">RCA</a> in 1929; known today as <a href="/wiki/RCA_Records" title="RCA Records">RCA Records</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Genre</th><td class="infobox-data category">Classical, blues, popular, jazz, country, bluegrass, folk</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Country of origin</th><td class="infobox-data">United States</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Location</th><td class="infobox-data label"><a href="/wiki/Camden,_New_Jersey" title="Camden, New Jersey">Camden, New Jersey</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>Victor Talking Machine Company</b> was an American recording company and <a href="/wiki/Phonograph" title="Phonograph">phonograph</a> manufacturer, incorporated in 1901. Victor was an independent enterprise until 1929 when it was purchased by the <a href="/wiki/Radio_Corporation_of_America" class="mw-redirect" title="Radio Corporation of America">Radio Corporation of America</a> (RCA) and became the <b>RCA Victor</b> Division of the Radio Corporation of America until late 1968, when it was renamed <a href="/wiki/RCA_Records" title="RCA Records">RCA Records</a>. </p><p>Established in <a href="/wiki/Camden,_New_Jersey" title="Camden, New Jersey">Camden, New Jersey</a>, Victor was the largest and most prestigious firm of its kind in the world, best known for its use of the iconic "<a href="/wiki/His_Master%27s_Voice" title="His Master's Voice">His Master's Voice</a>" trademark, the design, production and marketing of the popular "Victrola" line of phonographs and the company's extensive catalog of operatic and classical music recordings by world famous artists on the prestigious <a href="/wiki/RCA_Victor_Red_Seal" class="mw-redirect" title="RCA Victor Red Seal">Red Seal</a> label. After Victor merged with RCA in 1929, the company maintained its eminence as America's foremost producer of records and phonographs until the 1960s. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Victor_Talking_Machine_Company&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1896, <a href="/wiki/Emile_Berliner" title="Emile Berliner">Emile Berliner</a>, the inventor of the <a href="/wiki/Phonograph" title="Phonograph">gramophone</a> and disc record, contracted machinist <a href="/wiki/Eldridge_R._Johnson" title="Eldridge R. Johnson">Eldridge R. Johnson</a> to manufacture his inventions.<sup id="cite_ref-gelatt_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gelatt-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Name">Name</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Victor_Talking_Machine_Company&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Name"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>There are different accounts as to how the "Victor" name came about. RCA historian Fred Barnum<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> gives various possible origins of the name in <i>"His Master's Voice" In America</i>, he writes, "One story claims that Johnson considered his first improved Gramophone to be both a scientific and business 'victory.' A second account is that Johnson emerged as the 'Victor' from the lengthy and costly patent litigations involving Berliner and Frank Seaman's <a href="/wiki/Zonophone" title="Zonophone">Zonophone</a>. A third story is that Johnson's partner, <a href="/wiki/Leon_Douglass" title="Leon Douglass">Leon Douglass</a>, derived the word from his wife's name 'Victoria.' Finally, a fourth story is that Johnson took the name from the popular 'Victor' bicycle, which he had admired for its superior engineering. Of these four accounts, the first two are the most generally accepted."<sup id="cite_ref-HMVIA_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HMVIA-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The first use of the Victor name was on a letterhead, dated March 28, 1901.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Marketing">Marketing</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Victor_Talking_Machine_Company&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Marketing"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Grammofono_-_Victor_IV_-_Museo_scienza_e_tecnologia_Milano.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Grammofono_-_Victor_IV_-_Museo_scienza_e_tecnologia_Milano.jpg/220px-Grammofono_-_Victor_IV_-_Museo_scienza_e_tecnologia_Milano.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Grammofono_-_Victor_IV_-_Museo_scienza_e_tecnologia_Milano.jpg/330px-Grammofono_-_Victor_IV_-_Museo_scienza_e_tecnologia_Milano.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Grammofono_-_Victor_IV_-_Museo_scienza_e_tecnologia_Milano.jpg/440px-Grammofono_-_Victor_IV_-_Museo_scienza_e_tecnologia_Milano.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1980" data-file-height="1320" /></a><figcaption>Victor IV gramophone. <a href="/wiki/Museo_Nazionale_Scienza_e_Tecnologia_Leonardo_da_Vinci" title="Museo Nazionale Scienza e Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci">Museo Nazionale Scienza e Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci</a>, Milan.</figcaption></figure> <p>Herbert Rose Barraud's deceased brother, a London photographer, willed him his estate, including his DC-powered Edison-Bell cylinder phonograph with a case of cylinders and his dog, named <a href="/wiki/Nipper" title="Nipper">Nipper</a>. Barraud's original painting depicts Nipper staring intently into the horn of an Edison-Bell while both sit on a polished wooden surface. The horn on the Edison-Bell machine was black and after a failed attempt at selling the painting to a cylinder record supplier of Edison Phonographs in the UK, a friend of Barraud's suggested that the painting could be brightened up (and possibly made more marketable) by substituting one of the brass-belled horns on display in the window at the new gramophone shop on <a href="/w/index.php?title=Maiden_Lane_(London)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Maiden Lane (London) (page does not exist)">Maiden Lane</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Gramophone_Company" title="Gramophone Company">Gramophone Company</a> in London was founded and managed by an American, William Barry Owen. Barraud paid a visit with a photograph of the painting and asked to borrow a horn. Owen gave Barraud an entire gramophone and asked him to paint it into the picture, offering to buy the result. On close inspection of the painting, the contours of the Edison-Bell phonograph are visible beneath the paint of the gramophone.<sup id="cite_ref-gelatt_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gelatt-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1915, the "His Master's Voice" logo was rendered in immense circular leaded-glass windows in the tower of the <a href="/wiki/Nipper_Building" title="Nipper Building">Victrola cabinet building</a> at Victor's headquarters in Camden, New Jersey. The building still stands today with replica windows installed during <a href="/wiki/RCA" title="RCA">RCA</a>'s ownership of the plant in its later years. Today, one of the original windows is located at the Smithsonian museum in Washington, D.C.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Acoustical_recording_era_(1901–1925)"><span id="Acoustical_recording_era_.281901.E2.80.931925.29"></span>Acoustical recording era (1901–1925)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Victor_Talking_Machine_Company&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Acoustical recording era (1901–1925)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Caruso_with_phonograph2.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/Caruso_with_phonograph2.jpg/180px-Caruso_with_phonograph2.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="251" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/Caruso_with_phonograph2.jpg/270px-Caruso_with_phonograph2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/Caruso_with_phonograph2.jpg/360px-Caruso_with_phonograph2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3801" data-file-height="5299" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Enrico_Caruso" title="Enrico Caruso">Enrico Caruso</a> with a customized Victrola given to him as a wedding gift by the Victor Company in 1918</figcaption></figure> <p>In the company's early years, Victor issued recordings on the Victor, Monarch and De Luxe labels, with the Victor label on 7-inch records, Monarch on 10-inch records and De Luxe on 12-inch records. De Luxe Special 14-inch records were briefly marketed in 1903–1904. In 1905, all labels and sizes were consolidated into the Victor imprint.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:VictorTalkingMachine2008.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/VictorTalkingMachine2008.jpg/220px-VictorTalkingMachine2008.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="182" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/VictorTalkingMachine2008.jpg/330px-VictorTalkingMachine2008.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/VictorTalkingMachine2008.jpg/440px-VictorTalkingMachine2008.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1900" data-file-height="1573" /></a><figcaption>A Victor Talking Machine</figcaption></figure> <p>Victor recorded the first jazz and blues records ever issued. The Victor Military Band recorded the first recorded blues song, "<a href="/wiki/The_Memphis_Blues" title="The Memphis Blues">The Memphis Blues</a>", on July 15, 1914, in Camden, New Jersey.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1917, <a href="/wiki/The_Original_Dixieland_Jazz_Band" class="mw-redirect" title="The Original Dixieland Jazz Band">The Original Dixieland Jazz Band</a> recorded "<a href="/wiki/Livery_Stable_Blues" title="Livery Stable Blues">Livery Stable Blues</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Electrical_recording_era_(1925–present)"><span id="Electrical_recording_era_.281925.E2.80.93present.29"></span>Electrical recording era (1925–present)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Victor_Talking_Machine_Company&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Electrical recording era (1925–present)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Victor22529A.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Victor22529A.jpg/220px-Victor22529A.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="224" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Victor22529A.jpg/330px-Victor22529A.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Victor22529A.jpg/440px-Victor22529A.jpg 2x" data-file-width="885" data-file-height="902" /></a><figcaption>Victor "scroll" label used from 1926 to 1934, featuring the company's house band directed by <a href="/wiki/Nathaniel_Shilkret" title="Nathaniel Shilkret">Nathaniel Shilkret</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The advent of radio as a home entertainment medium in the early 1920s presented Victor and the entire record industry with new challenges. Not only was music becoming available over the air free of charge, but a live radio broadcast made using high-quality microphones and heard over amplified receivers provided sound that was startlingly more clear and realistic than a contemporary phonograph record. Victor was initially dismissive of the encroachments of radio, but after plummeting sales and much apathy and resistance from the company's senior executives brought the company to the verge of bankruptcy, Victor switched from the acoustical or mechanical method of recording to the new <a href="/wiki/Microphone" title="Microphone">microphone</a>-based electrical system developed by <a href="/wiki/Western_Electric" title="Western Electric">Western Electric</a> in 1925. Victor called its version of the improved fidelity recording process "Orthophonic", and marketed a new line of phonographs referred to as "<a href="/wiki/Victor_Orthophonic_Victrola" title="Victor Orthophonic Victrola">Orthophonic Victrolas</a>", scientifically developed by Western Electric to play these new records. Victor's first electrical recordings, issued in the spring of 1925 were not advertised as such; in order to create an extensive catalog of records made by the new process to satisfy anticipated demand, and to allow dealers time to liquidate their stocks of old-style Victrolas, Victor and its longtime rival, <a href="/wiki/Columbia_Records" title="Columbia Records">Columbia Records</a>, agreed to keep electrical recording secret until the autumn of 1925. Then, with the company's largest advertising campaign to date, Victor publicly announced the new technology and introduced its new records and the Orthophonic Victrola on November 2, 1925, dubbed "Victor Day".<sup id="cite_ref-gelatt_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gelatt-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Victor_VE_in_circle.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/09/Victor_VE_in_circle.jpg/220px-Victor_VE_in_circle.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="204" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/09/Victor_VE_in_circle.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="282" data-file-height="261" /></a><figcaption>The "VE" symbol, indicating a Victor electrical recording</figcaption></figure> <p>Victor's first commercial electrical recording was made at the company's Camden, New Jersey studios on February 26, 1925. A group of eight popular Victor artists, <a href="/wiki/Billy_Murray_(singer)" title="Billy Murray (singer)">Billy Murray</a>, Frank Banta, <a href="/wiki/Henry_Burr" title="Henry Burr">Henry Burr</a>, Albert Campbell, <a href="/wiki/Frank_Croxton" title="Frank Croxton">Frank Croxton</a>, John Meyer, <a href="/wiki/Monroe_Silver" title="Monroe Silver">Monroe Silver</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Rudy_Wiedoeft" title="Rudy Wiedoeft">Rudy Wiedoeft</a> gathered to record "A Miniature Concert". Several takes were recorded by the old acoustical process, then additional takes were recorded electrically for test purposes. The electrical recordings turned out well, and Victor issued the results that summer as the two sides of twelve inch 78 rpm disc, Victor 35753. Victor's first electrical recording to be <i>issued</i> was Victor 19626, a ten-inch record consisting of two numbers recorded on March 16, 1925, from the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Pennsylvania" title="University of Pennsylvania">University of Pennsylvania</a>'s thirty-seventh annual production of the Mask and Wig Club, released in April, 1925. On March 21, 1925, Victor recorded its first electrical <a href="/wiki/RCA_Red_Seal" class="mw-redirect" title="RCA Red Seal">Red Seal</a> disc, twelve inch 6502 by pianist <a href="/wiki/Alfred_Cortot" title="Alfred Cortot">Alfred Cortot</a>, of works by Chopin and Schubert.<sup id="cite_ref-victorlog1_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-victorlog1-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Post-acquisition_(1929–present)"><span id="Post-acquisition_.281929.E2.80.93present.29"></span>Post-acquisition (1929–present)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Victor_Talking_Machine_Company&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Post-acquisition (1929–present)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1926, Johnson sold his controlling (but not holding) interest in the Victor Company to the banking firms of <a href="/wiki/J._%26_W._Seligman_%26_Co." title="J. & W. Seligman & Co.">JW Seligman</a> and <a href="/wiki/Speyer_%26_Co." class="mw-redirect" title="Speyer & Co.">Speyer & Co.</a>, who in turn sold Victor to the <a href="/wiki/Radio_Corporation_of_America" class="mw-redirect" title="Radio Corporation of America">Radio Corporation of America</a> in 1929.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="List_of_Victor_Records_artists">List of Victor Records artists</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Victor_Talking_Machine_Company&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: List of Victor Records artists"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/List_of_Victor_Records_artists" title="List of Victor Records artists">List of Victor Records artists</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Archives">Archives</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Victor_Talking_Machine_Company&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Archives"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Discography_of_American_Historical_Recordings" title="Discography of American Historical Recordings">Discography of American Historical Recordings</a> (DAHR) is a continuation of the Encyclopedic Discography of Victor Recordings (EDVR) project by Ted Fagan and William Moran to make a complete discography of all Victor recordings as well as adding the recordings of Columbia, Brunswick and other historic American labels now controlled by <a href="/wiki/Sony_Music_Entertainment" class="mw-redirect" title="Sony Music Entertainment">Sony Music Entertainment</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Victor archive files are the main source of information for this project. </p><p>In 2011, the <a href="/wiki/Library_of_Congress" title="Library of Congress">Library of Congress</a> and Victor catalog owner Sony Music Entertainment launched the National Jukebox offering streaming audio of more than 10,000 pre-1925 recorded works for listening by the general public; the majority of these recordings have not been widely available for over 100 years.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Victor_Talking_Machine_Company&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Eldridge_R._Johnson" title="Eldridge R. Johnson">Eldridge R. Johnson</a> – American businessman and engineer</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grammy_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Grammy Award">Grammy Award</a> – American award for achievements in music<span style="display:none" class="category-annotation-with-redirected-description">Pages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/His_Master%27s_Voice" title="His Master's Voice">His Master's Voice</a> – Painting, British record label, and international trademark</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Johnson_Victrola_Museum" class="mw-redirect" title="Johnson Victrola Museum">Johnson Victrola Museum</a> – State park in Delaware, United States<span style="display:none" class="category-annotation-with-redirected-description">Pages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_phonograph_manufacturers" title="List of phonograph manufacturers">List of phonograph manufacturers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nipper" title="Nipper">Nipper</a> – Canine mascot of HMV, RCA, and the Victor Talking Machine Company (1884–1895)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/RCA_Camden" title="RCA Camden">RCA Camden</a> – international record label; budget imprint of RCA Victor<span style="display:none" class="category-wikidata-fallback-annotation">Pages displaying wikidata descriptions as a fallback</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/RCA_Records" title="RCA Records">RCA Records</a> – American record label</li> <li><a href="/wiki/RCA_Red_Seal" class="mw-redirect" title="RCA Red Seal">RCA Red Seal</a> – US record label<span style="display:none" class="category-annotation-with-redirected-description">Pages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/RCA_Victrola" title="RCA Victrola">RCA Victrola</a> – American classical music label; budget label operated by RCA Victor<span style="display:none" class="category-wikidata-fallback-annotation">Pages displaying wikidata descriptions as a fallback</span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Victor_Talking_Machine_Company&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Bryan, Martin F. <i>Report to the Phonothèque Québécoise on the Search for Archival Documents of Berliner Gram-O-Phone Co., Victor Talking Machine Co., R.C.A. Victor Co. (Montréal), 1899–1972</i>. Further augmented ed. Montréal: Phonothèque Québécoise, 1994. 19, [1] p.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Victor_Talking_Machine_Company&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-gelatt-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-gelatt_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-gelatt_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-gelatt_1-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Gelatt, Roland, <i>The Fabulous Phonograph: 1877–1977</i>, MacMillan, New York, 1954. <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-02-542960-4" title="Special:BookSources/0-02-542960-4">0-02-542960-4</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://historiccamdencounty.com/ccnews110.shtml">"Preserving the History of RCA Victor"</a>. <i>Historiccamdencounty.com</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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