The 78rpm Record Home Page - Label Pictures
Here are some 78 RPM record label pictures for your enjoyment. These are only for non-commercial use on phonographs in homes and for no other purpose. Requests and donations of labels welcomed.
Other larger collections: Wikipedia,
Ted Staunton's label collection,
Glenn Longwell's label collection,
Dance Band Encyclopedia labels, Russian lables
and the ROMFI site.
- 18 Top Hits *
- 3 Deuces
- Abbey *
- Admiral *
- allegro artist
- Allied Artists (Theater lobby spot, 1960)
- Alvin
- Ambassador *
- American Indian Soundchiefs
- Apex (Canada) *
- Aria Disc *
- ARA *
- Arentino
- Argo
- Arista
- Arto
- Atomic
- Apollo: Rainbow Music Shop | Blue Masterworks In Jazz | purple
- Asch (purple)
- Bally *
- Banner: One-Sided '06-'07 | Plaza blue | new blue *
- Bell (10"):
Hawaii *
- Bell (7"):
Plain White on Blue *
| Plain White on Black *
| Black and Orange
| Green and Black
- Bel-Tone *
- Bissell-Weisert
- Black & White:
Ribbon *
| All Black *
- Blackwood Bros. *
- Blue Ace
- Blue Records *
- Bost *
- British Rhythm Society
- Broadway: Quality Clear Through * | Electric
- Blue Disc
- Bluebird (all pictures)
- Brunswick (all pictures)
- Broome Special Phonograph
- Bullet
- Busy Bee *
- Cadet
- California (Sunset-related.) **
- Calvary *
- Cameo: Early | Late
- Campus *
- Capitol:
Black early
| Black
| Black w/Patent reg under label name
| Purple Criterion
| DJ white *
| DJ yellow
| SuperFlex *
| ChildrenRed *
| Telefunken (black/German)
| Telefunken (red/German)
- Casino
- Celebrity
- Century: early | late | Hollywood *
- Challenge
- Champion (Electrograph red) *
- Chess: pink and blue | blue and white *
- Clarion (UK early)
- Climax (double-disk) *
- Cobra: Red
| Blue *
- Coleman *
- Columbia:
Climax Broken Ring
| Disc Record Solid Silver Ring *
| No Ring Disc Record
| Record Highest Possible Award *
| Symphony Series Award (blue) *
| Grand Prize Milan *
| Grand Prize Exclusive Artist *
| -Rena
| Note the Notes *
| Magic Notes
| Magic Notes (exclusive artist) *
| Personal Graphophone *
| Flag
| Black accoustic -D
| Black Viva-tonal -D *
| Potato Head
| Ted Lewis (courtesy Mitch Mitchell)
| Full Range Recording (blue) *
| Full Range Recording Masterworks (blue, import) (courtesy G Morris)
| CBS Red '39-'47
| Masterwork (CBS, green)
| Sound Effects (CBS, black)
| '50s DJ (courtesy Keith Lyons)
| Promotion '50s *
| Canada late '50s *
| Australia (black)
| Japan (red)
| Japan (History of Jazz)
| Japan (childrens)
| Cardboard Ad Captain Kangaroo 1956 *
| UK (J.S. Bach) *
| India ('60s) *
- Columbia Pictures Presents (Theater lobby spot, 1958)
- Commodore
- Conqueror:
Early '30s *
| Mid '30s (Courtesy )
- Continental: Yellow | Pink * | Red *
- Coral: Orange * | DJ (blue)
- Cordion *
- Cosmo (red) *
- C.R.S. Historical Records *
- Cricket (yellow) *
- Damon *
- Decca: (all)
- deegee
- Del-Mar-Va ("Personal" record. It refers to the peninsula between the Atlantic and Chesapeake Bay) **
- Delta
- DeLUXE
- Delvar
- Dial
- Discovery: Black | Red | International Jazz
- Diva *
- Domino: Old | New
- Dot: Yellow *
- Down Beat (became Swing Time) **
- Duo Disc (courtesy G Morris)
- durium
- Edison:
Etched *
| Re-creation Paper | Re-creation Star Paper
| Record Paper | Paper white-on-black *
| 24 Minute 80 RPM DD *
| Electric *
- Edison-Bell (Velvet-Face English) *
- Electradisk
- The Electric
- Elite: Early | Late
- Embassy (Electric Australia)
- Emerson:
Yellow on blue * |
Liberty *
- Enterprise Records (Abbott & Costello benefit) *
- Excello
- Canasta (ARC)
- Fantasy: DJ | Dark red
- Down Town
- Durium: Car Ad
- Elko
- Fabor *
- Federal: DEE JAY Special *
- Flint
- Fonit (Italian)
- Formal
- Fortune
- Gee *
- Gennett: red | NY round | blue | purple | dark blue | electrobeam | Star Gennett (Canada)
- Gold Star *
- Golden (Courtesy Mark Kruse)
- Golden Gate *
- Gone
- Good Time Jazz *
- Gotham: red *
- Grey Gull: Early lateral | maroon type 1 | maroon type 2 | scarlet type 1 | blue | rose type 3
- Guyden
- Hamp-Tone *
- Harlem
- Harmony:
early *
| late CBS
- Hartz Mountain Products: Parakeet training * | Radio Canaries *
- Haven *
- Hello World (Courtesy Gary Le Gallant)
- Herald
- Hickory (Courtesy Sheila Coil)
- His Masters Voice: UK Swing Era | Italy Swing Era | Snow White (Courtesey Dave Dixon)
- High Society
- Hit: Early | Artist Name in Large Letters
- Hit of the Week:
White letters
| Yellow and white letters
- Hollywood Record **
- Hollywood Star Record: Voice of the Stars | John Wayne (8 inch, laminated vinyl-over-cardboard picture disc, issued by mail order in probably 1949, courtesey Phil)
- Home Recordings:
Recordio (Wilcox-Gay) early *
| Recordio Disc Record White surface (Courtesy Mark Kruse)
| Recordio Disc Record Red surface *
| RCA Home Recording *
| Capitol Home Recording (green)
| Capitol Home Recording (orange)
| Howard Home Recording
| Howard Home Recording (yellow)
| USO: Record, Envelope side 1, Envelope side 2
- Homocord (Germany)
- Horizon
- Horrible *
- Hot Wax
- H.R.S. (cream)
- Imperial (UK)
- International Record Collectors Club.jpg
- Irene (2 songs on each side. Courtesy )
- Jamboree
- Jazz Classics
- Jewel: Ruby | Old red (Courtesy JJ Holiday)
- Josie *
- Jubilee *
- Jump
- Kay Cee (courtesy Mitch Mitchell)
- Kem
- Keynote *
- Kiddie Records:
Adventure *
| Belda Talking Komics *
| Kiddie Land *
| Meadow Gold Kiddietoons *
| Mayfair: Kiddie Land Ball Room *
| Mayfair: Kiddie Konga *
| Playtime *
| Tiny-Tunes (Capitol) *
| Wonderland *
- Kimbo *
- King: Early Hillbilly | Early pop | DJ special white *
- King Jazz
- Kingsport
- Kismet
- Lakeside
- Liberty: India *
- Liberty Music Shop *
- Light House *
- Lincoln *
- Little Wonder: Etched | Paper instruments | Paper baby
- Lloyd Shaw
- Luniverse *
- Lyric
- Joe Davis (red)
- John Bull (UK)
- London:
Blue *
| Green *
| Disc Jockey *
- Lone Star *
- Madison
- Manor *
- Marathon (UK)
- Master
- Majestic *(Ross Stores)
- Melodisc:
7" blue
| 7" black
| 7" brown
- Melodisc (UK)
- Melotone
- Melrose
- Memory
- Memphis (Australia)
- Mercury: red | Early pop '40s * | JATP | Mid 50's
- MGM:
Loew's Theatres *
| Yellow
- Miltone (Scans courtesy Gary Le Gallant and Edwin Harvey Jr; Records: Mike Kredinac)
- Modern Music
- Montgomery Ward: red on cream * | gold on black
- Muse *
- Music City *
- Musicraft:
bright (early)
| faint
| yellow *
- Musogram (UK)
- National: blue | blue *
- National Record (China)
- National Music Lovers: Red and Gold | Black and Gold *
- Neophone (UK)
- New Improved Silver Tongued Record
- New-Disc
- New Jazz: Early | Sax
- Nipponophone Japan *
- Nitto Japan *
- Odeon:
black electric *
| Imported from Greece *
- Okeh:
Indian
| Indian Lateral *
| Blue City *
| early-mid '20s pop
| Truetone
| Electric
| CBS Purple *
- Old Town
- Once Upon A Time *
- Ora Nelle
- Original *
- Oriole: US | England ('30s)
- Oxford:
Early small hole *
| "United"-sized hole
- Pacific Jazz
- Pan-American *
- Polkaland *
- Par-Dee *
- Paramount: Vert
| Blind Lemon Jefferson Birthday Record
| Electric Australia
| Silver on Black
| Silver on Purple
- Parlophone:
Blue (UK)
| Odeon Series (UK) *
- Parrot (became Swing Time) **
- Pathe:
Vertical-cut US pantograph
| Actuelle (Lateral-cut US pantograph)
| Pathe Actuelle (Lateral-cut US pantograph) *
| Center-start
| China
- Party Records:
Let's Have Fun! *
| Kicks *
| Party Record by Musicraft *
| Party Record Company (red) *
- Pearl:
Pearl over "A" *
| Two lines *
- Perfect:
Early
| Black 20s
| Brown 20s
| Brown Star Series
| Brown Electric
| Black 30s
| Blue ARC *
- Personal
- Peter Pan *
- Pilotone *
- Polydor *
- Polyphon Record (Germany)
- Popular Record
- Premier
- Prestige (DJ hi-fi)
- Puritan:
Early
| Later *
- QRS
- Radiex
- Radiodisque *
- Raven
- Rainbow: 20's *
| 30's *
- Red Raven: "Parade of the wooden soldiers" | "On the merry-go-round"
- Rego
- Reichs-Rundfunk (German)
- the Record Changer
- Recorded In Hollywood
- Royalty
- Regal (Electric)
- Regal Zonophone (UK)
- Regent
- Remington *
- Remington-Morse *
- Rex (UK) *
- Rich-R'-Tone *
- RKO Unique (courtesy G Morris)
- Robin *
- Romeo: Red | Black electric *
- Rondo *
- Royal Canada (courtesy G Morris)
- RPM *(mis-printed upside down!)
- S&G (DJ) *
- Sam Singing (DJ) *
- Savoy: Red * | purple
- Score (DJ) *
- Sensation
- Signature *
- Silvertone: '20s | '40s
- Silvertone record club *
- Sittin' In With *
- Smart *
- Sonart *
- Sonora ('40s) *
- The Spartan Voice
- Square Dance
- Standard:
Early *
| Balloon *
- Standard Disc
- Starr (Canada) *
- Star Record (Hawthorn) *
- Statler
- Stella (DJ)
- Sterling *
- Studio & Artist *(Recording studio)
- Sue (The last known US-pressed 78 record, January 1964. Courtesy )
- Sun (Memphis)
- Sunset (old) *
- Superior (Courtesy JJ Holiday)
- Supraphon (Czechoslovakia) *
- Swan
- Swing Time *
- Super Disc
- Supertone
- Symphonola *
- Talking Book (RCA)
- Tempo: Germany * | Germany
- Tempofunken *
- Tennessee *
- The Thomas Record
- Tiger
- Tokyo
- Tono (Denmark) *
- Tops:
dark red *
| black
- Top Ten *
- Top Tunes *
- Tower *
- Trianon (Silver on red, plain) *
- Tru Tone *
- Truetone: (8", studio, acetate on aluminum, Toronto) Arc | Straight
- Twin (India. Issued a lot of Bluebird material) **
- UHCA **
- United Record
- United States Coast Guard *
- Unity *
- Universal (courtesy John Sellards)
- Valley *
- Van Dyke
- Variety
- V Disc: Navy | Army
- Vee-Jay *
- Velvet Tone (Courtesy )
- Victor:
Berliner (1898)
| Berliner (UK, Angel at 12, no company name)
| Berliner (UK, Angel at 10)
| Berliner (UK, Angel at 10, music type shown)
| Improved
| Deluxe Special (14 inch)
| Grand Prize *
| Victrola *
| Scroll (Orthophonic RCA Victor Company VE)
| Scroll (RCA Manufacturing)
| Circle
| Circle (Use needles)
| Circle Red Seal *
| Circle (RCA Logo)
| Circle RCA Victor
| Circle RCA Victor Coin Operators
| Personal: American Radio Warblers *
| Japanese
| DJ
| Bat Wing (Arch)
| Program Transcription 33 1/3 *
| Scroll Swing Classic
| Circle Swing Classic
| Color Dog *
| Canada Blue HMV Arch
| Canada VE HMV Arch
| Victor Monarch
| Mussolini's Address to American Italians
| China Scroll
| Chinese Import Blue Arch
| China Import Purple Arch (courtesy G Morris)
| Red Personal bat wing *
| Purple Childrens *
| DJ green and red on white *
- Victoria *
- Viking (Flexible. Plastic bonded to another light-weight, thick material)
- VIM
- VITAcoustic *
- Vocalion:
Aeolian blue lateral *
| Aeolian red
| 14xxx,15xxx red
| Gold on black **
| Gold Negative **
| Scroll
| Blue Bars
| Blue late '30s
- Voco:
"I Wish That I Were Santa Claus *
| Jack And Jill *
- Vogue (There's Good Blues Tonight)
- Wallis Original *
- Wheeling *
- White Church *
- World's Greatest Operas *
- World's Greatest Symphonies *
- Young Peoples *
- Zonophone:
Etched National
| Etched Universal (plus National)
| Green
| Disque (French Import) *
| Argentina
- Courtesy The Collector's Guide To Victor Records - by
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| Berliner (UK, Angel at 12, no company name)
| Berliner (UK, Angel at 10)
| Berliner (UK, Angel at 10, music type shown)
| Improved
| Deluxe Special (14 inch)
| Grand Prize *
| Victrola *
| Scroll (Orthophonic RCA Victor Company VE)
| Scroll (RCA Manufacturing)
| Circle
| Circle (Use needles)
| Circle Red Seal *
| Circle (RCA Logo)
| Circle RCA Victor
| Circle RCA Victor Coin Operators
| Personal: American Radio Warblers *
| Japanese
| DJ
| Bat Wing (Arch)
| Program Transcription 33 1/3 *
| Scroll Swing Classic
| Circle Swing Classic
| Color Dog *
| Canada Blue HMV Arch
| Canada VE HMV Arch
| Victor Monarch
