Cowboy Jack; Freight Train Blues: Museum Object and Cultural History
Cowboy Jack; Freight Train Blues: recording date: 1936. recording artist: Callahan Brothers. manufacturer: Perfect.
The object in the museum catalogue
Callahan Brothers. side 1: Cowboy Jack; side 2: Freight Train Blues (Perfect 6-09-53). 78 rpm. This same coupling was released on various American Record Corporation (ARC) labels.
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: 1936
- recording artist: Callahan Brothers
- manufacturer: Perfect
- Object Name: sound recording
- Physical Description: shellac (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: 10 in; x 25.4 cm
- place made: United States
- ID Number: 1996.0320.12696
- collector/donor number: 8993
- maker number: 6-09-53
- accession number: 1996.0320
- catalog number: 1996.0320.12696
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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