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It is part of the American Discography Project (ADP)—an initiative of the University of California, Santa Barbara that is edited by a team of researchers based at the UCSB Library.</p> <p>DAHR is an expansion of the Encyclopedic Discography of Victor Recordings (EDVR) incorporating previously published discographic data licensed from various publishers, folding them into the search and display framework of DAHR. Documentation of the activities of the Victor Talking Machine Company and RCA Victor derives primarily from consultation of publications of the companies and original documents held in the archives of Sony Music Entertainment in New York City. DAHR entries describing recordings made by Columbia Records, the Berliner Gramophone Co., OKeh Records, Zonophone Records, Leeds & Catlin Records, and Decca are based on <a href="/index.php/resources/detail/158">authoritative published discographies</a>, supplemented with new research, examination of recordings in the collections of the University of California Santa Barbara Library, and submissions from record collectors and archives.</p> <p>To begin your research, enter names, titles, places, matrix or catalog numbers below, or click on the advanced browse or search buttons above.</p> <form action="/index.php/basic/index" method="get"> <p><input id="term" type="text" name="term" value="" />    <input class="submit_button" type="submit" name="yt0" value="Search" /></p> </form> <h2>What's Online and What's Coming</h2> <p>DAHR currently includes information on more than 420,000 master recordings (matrixes) made by Victor, Columbia, OKeh, Berliner, Edison, Zonophone, Leeds & Catlin, Brunswick, and Decca. Details on the editing progress on each company's masters is <a href="/index.php/resources/detail/157">here</a>.</p> <p>The ADP is also a partner with the Library of Congress <a href="https://www.loc.gov/collections/national-jukebox/">National Jukebox</a> project and provides most of the cataloging data used in the Jukebox. As a result of this partnership, 11,000 recordings made by Victor and Columbia between 1900 and 1925 can be streamed online. An additional 35,000 masters from Columbia, Okeh, Zonophone and Edison are also available via UCSB's streaming player or embedded YouTube links.</p> <p>Staff are currently editing masters for: Victor's 1940s ethnic, popular and classical masters; Victor's 1950s Latin American recordings; Columbia ethnic and foreign issues; and leased Gramophone masters issued by Victor.</p> <h2>Credits</h2> <p>The American Discography Project is funded by the <a href="http://www.neh.gov/">National Endowment for the Humanities</a>, the <a href="https://www.library.ucsb.edu/">UCSB Library</a>, and the William R. Moran Fund for Recorded Sound.</p> <p>Electronic online database editions of <em>The Columbia Master Book Discography, </em><em>Berliner Gramophone Records: American Issues, 1892-1900</em>, <em>Discography of OKeh Records, 1918-1934</em>, and <em>The Decca Labels: A Discography,</em><strong><em> </em></strong>by arrangement with ABC-CLIO, LLC, Santa Barbara, CA. <em>The American Zonophone Discography,</em> and <em>Leeds & Catlin Records</em> by arrangement with Mainspring Press, Denver CO. All rights reserved. Full credits can be found <a href="/index.php/resources/detail/158">here</a>.</p> <p> </p> <p>If any of the material on this page, or any part of our website, is not accessible to you, please contact the web services librarian by phone at (805) 893-2074 or send us an <a class="spamspan" href="mailto:webmaster%40library.ucsb.edu">email</a>. We will either resolve the issue or provide alternatives.</p> </div> <div id="home-right"> <h1>News</h1> <div style="clear:both;"> <h2>Public Domain Day 2025</h2> <p class="byline">January 1st, 2025<br /> By: David Seubert </p> <p dir="ltr">Over 8,700 recordings made in 1924 and documented by DAHR will enter the public domain on January 1, 2025! This includes thousands of recordings that have already been digitized by the … <p><a href="/index.php/resources/detail/507"> <br>Read More »</a></p> </div> <hr> <div style="clear:both;"> <h2>DAHR Receives 6th NEH Grant</h2> <p class="byline">July 18th, 2024<br /> By: UCSB Library staff </p> <p><img style="margin: 5px; float: left;" title="NEH Seal" src="/themes/h5bp/img/NEH-Horizontal-stk-Seal820.jpg" alt="NEH Seal" width="200" height="143" />The National Endowment for the Humanities (… <p><a href="/index.php/resources/detail/502"> <br>Read More »</a></p> </div> <hr> <div style="clear:both;"> <h2>Italian Columbia Data Added to DAHR</h2> <p class="byline">July 13th, 2024<br /> By: David Seubert </p> <p><img style="float: left; margin: 5px;" src="/themes/h5bp/img/IMG_6085.jpg" alt="Italian Columbia catalog" width="184" height="250" />DAHR editors have begun to publish data on the 10” … <p><a href="/index.php/resources/detail/501"> <br>Read More »</a></p> </div> <hr> </div> </div> <aside> </aside> </section> </div> <footer> <div class="flex space-between" style="margin-bottom: 1em;"> <div id="footer-left"> <img src="/themes/h5bp/static/uclogo-new4.png"> </div> <div id="footer-right"> <a href="https://www.neh.gov" target="_blank"><img src="/themes/h5bp/static/neh-logo-150x55-2024.png"></a> </div> </div> <div> <p>© 2008-2025 Regents of the University of California, All Rights Reserved.</p> <p><a href="/index.php">Home</a> | <a href="mailto:victor@library.ucsb.edu?subject=ADP Feedback">Contact Us</a> | <a href="/index.php/resources/detail/155">Terms of Use</a> | <a href="/index.php/resources/detail/154">Accessibility</a></p> </div> </footer>   <script defer src="/themes/h5bp/js/plugins.js?v=1742837059"></script> <script defer src="/themes/h5bp/js/main.js?v=1742837059"></script>  </body> </html>

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