Black Star Line; Pipe Dream Blues: Museum Object and Cultural History
Black Star Line; Pipe Dream Blues: recording date: 1924. recording artist: Meyers, Hazel. manufacturer: Perfect.
The object in the museum catalogue
Hazel Meyers. side 1: Black Star Line; side 2: Pipe Dream Blues (Perfect 12132). 78 rpm. This coupling was initially released on Pathé 032053.
Perfect Records was an American budget record label founded in by Pathé Phonograph and Radio Corporation, in 1922. Perfect and Pathé became part of the original merger of record labels that formed the American Record Corporation, in 1929. Perfect was discontinued in 1938.
Materials, dates and provenance
- recording date: 1924
- recording artist: Meyers, Hazel
- manufacturer: Perfect
- Object Name: sound recording
- Physical Description: shellac (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: 10 in; 25.4 cm
- place made: United States
- ID Number: 1988.0698.1674
- catalog number: 1988.0698.1674
- accession number: 1988.0698
- collector/donor number: M34
- maker number: 12132
- Credit Line: Gift of Howard A. Guernsey (through Richard L. Guernsey)
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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