American Record Company
The
American Record Company was a
United States record label, in business from about
1904 to
1908.
The American Record Company was founded by Ellsworth A. Hawthorne and Horace Sheble (formerly dealers for
Edison Records who had been blacklisted for their questionable business methods) and Frederick M. Prescot. It was based in
Springfield, Massachusetts. They produced single-sided lateral-cut-groove
analogue disc records. The business was closed after unfavorable judgements on
patents which the American Record Company had violated from
Emile Berliner,
Columbia Records, and the
Victor Talking Machine Company.
The label of the discs featured artwork depicting a Native American with a Smoking pipe listening to an early disc phonograph.
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