Sound recording industry

Scope and Contents

Collection consists of calendars, mostly created for promotional or marketing purposes featuring photographs of bands, musicians, record labels, or other music-related images. Most calendars contain individual and group shots of the artists. Some have additional information about the featured artists or musical genres, or have important musical dates marked in the calendar.

Scope and Contents Collection consists mainly of catalogs from record distributors, publishers, and some record stores; some of these catalogs were intended for individual consumers or collectors, but others were for the proprietors of record stores. Some folders also contain press releases, communication from labels and distributors, newsletters from labels, and new release notices; when there were many of these non-catalog items for a particular publisher, they have been arranged in separate folders, but...