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Vogue Picture Records were made by Sav-Way Industries of Detroit, Michigan. The first 10 inch record was released to the public in May 1946. Production ceased less than a year later in April 1947. There were only 74 different 10--inch Vogue picture records released.

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V-disc Records began in 1943 by the Government for the Service men over sea's. They would span for seven years. They were made ONLY for the service men and NOT to be sold.

A Musician's strike was going on and the troops wanted to hear more current music. No recording's were being made in american studios, so the Government decided to record the music and ship the records over seas.

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V-DISC RECORDS

Lateral Cut Records, the signals were on the sides of the walls in the record channel. Needle movement was from side to side.

You had to change the needle per each play of the record.

Mostly all 78 records that you see use this method.

Vertical Cut Records, the signals were on the bottom of the record channel. Needle movement was up & down (hill & dale). A round stylus was used for playing the record. Needle didn't get changed but very often.

Cylinders, early Path'e, and Edison Diamond Disc use this method.

7" Single Sided Record. The straight line design was introduced in 1903 and was the basic format of the label design, with some modifications, for the next decade.

Path'e Center Start Record. The record would play starting where we would call the end of the record. With the final song ending on the outer edge. It was like playing the record backwards.

Path'e Records are Vertical Cut Records.

Path'e Outside Start Record. When Path'e came to America to make Phonograph's and Records. To us, the regular way of starting records.

Still Vertical Cut Records.

Shown : Improved Record 7" Single sided.

In 1901 the courts ordered

Eldridge Johnson not to use the word Gramophone ( when he took over Berliner's Company) on his products. The result was the

Improved Record label, which dropped the Consolidated Talking Machine Company name.

Shown: Victor Record 7"

Single Sided.

Johnson first registered the Victor trademark on March 12, 1901,

under his own name; The Victor Talking Machine Company had not yet been formed.

Emile Berliner's 7-inch

Single Sided Disc Record.

This was the start of the flat "Lateral Cut" Records as we know now.

This record dates from

February 1895.

Edison Diamond Disc Records were 1/4 inch thick. You could only play them on an Edison Diamond Disc Phonograph. And of course, no other records could be played on the Edison Disc Phonograph.

Edison Diamond Disc Records were Vertical Cut Records introduced late in 1912.

Edison's Diamond Disc Phonograph used a specially designed reproducer with a diamond stylus and a laminated rice paper diaphragm.

The phonograph used a gear mechanism to advance the reproducer across the record, rather than the record grooves moving the reproducer across. There was very little wear on the records. The Diamond Disc Phonograph was offered in many models from late 1912 to 1927, and the records were sold until 1929, when the company closed its doors, just before the stock market crash.

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An early Post Card.

Postage stamp on back is 1-cents.

I haven't seen that in my time.