1923 KIDDIE RECORD PICTURE DISC ALBUM ONE made by EMERSON 78

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WEEK 1 of two weeks of great auctions ending May 11.

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Great album of CHILDREN Records

COMPLETE Kiddie Record Album No 1

Soft Cover album and 6 x 6" records with a gorgeous illustration on one side, and a song on the other.

Record art is signed C M Burd

Pls check the photo of the front cover above for songs and performers.

Condition:  Records are EXCELLENT MINUS. Picture side is pristine save for mild spindle marks.

Record are very slightly dished. Does not affect play

Mary has a faint needle run, some scuffs. Album is complete, back covered is somewhat tattered. Sleeve 1 , 5 have small tear around cut-out, sleeve one has a small split

Otherwise complete and in great condition

Records were put out by the original Kiddie Rekord Company, which was founded in June 1922 and lasted only a year or so, ceasing production in 1923. The company was founded by Victor Emerson of the Emerson Phonograph Company. I

In May 1922 Victor Emerson disposed of his failing Emerson Phonograph Company after two years of financial and legal difficulties. Emerson had no further connection with the company he founded after mid-1922, but he was far from inactive. In 1922 he founded the Kiddie Rekord Company (Plainfield, New Jersey) and the Metal Recording Disc Company (New York). The Kiddie Rekord Company was incorporated in New York with a rather meager capitalization of $30,000 in June 1922. Pressing was contracted to the Bridgeport Die & Machine Company of Connecticut (manufacturers of Broadway and Puritan discs), and BD&M president James Ogden also served as treasurer of the new company. The company filed a trademark application on January 17, 1923, claiming use of the Kiddie Rekord brand on records since June 28, 1922. The six-inch discs, again using Emerson's picture-disc technology, were pressed in transparent celluloid laminated to illustrated cardboard bases. There was an initial flurry of interest, but the company apparently did not survive beyond 1923.

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