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Victor Talking Machine Company

The Victor Talking Machine Company was an American recording company and phonograph manufacturer, incorporated in 1901. Victor was an independent enterprise until 1929 when it was purchased by the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) and became the RCA Victor Division of the Radio Corporation of America until late 1968, when it was renamed RCA Records.

"Victrola" redirects here. For other uses, see Victrola (disambiguation).

Victor Talking Machine Company

1901 (1901)

Acquired by RCA in 1929; known today as RCA Records

Classical, blues, popular, jazz, country, bluegrass, folk

United States

Established in Camden, New Jersey, Victor was the largest and most prestigious firm of its kind in the world, best known for its use of the iconic "His Master's Voice" trademark, the design, production and marketing of the popular "Victrola" line of phonographs and the company's extensive catalog of operatic and classical music recordings by world famous artists on the prestigious Red Seal label. After Victor merged with RCA in 1929, the company maintained its eminence as America's foremost producer of records and phonographs until the 1960s.

Archives[edit]

The Discography of American Historical Recordings (DAHR) is a continuation of the Encyclopedic Discography of Victor Recordings (EDVR) project by Ted Fagan and William Moran to make a complete discography of all Victor recordings as well as adding the recordings of Columbia, Brunswick and other historic American labels now controlled by Sony Music Entertainment.[11] The Victor archive files are the main source of information for this project.


In 2011, the Library of Congress and Victor catalog owner Sony Music Entertainment launched the National Jukebox offering streaming audio of more than 10,000 pre-1925 recorded works for listening by the general public; the majority of these recordings have not been widely available for over 100 years.[12][13]

RCA Records

RCA Red Seal

RCA Victrola

RCA Camden

His Master's Voice

Grammy Award

List of phonograph manufacturers

Johnson Victrola Museum

Bryan, Martin F. Report to the Phonothèque Québécoise on the Search for Archival Documents of Berliner Gram-O-Phone Co., Victor Talking Machine Co., R.C.A. Victor Co. (Montréal), 1899–1972. Further augmented ed. Montréal: Phonothèque Québécoise, 1994. 19, [1] p.

Victor masters in the

Discography of American Historical Recordings

"Victrola Credenza" at Victor-Victrola page

"Identifying Victor Products" at Victor-Victrola page

Victor timeline at the David Sarnoff Library

Archived June 16, 2019, at the Wayback Machine (1887–1983) About the history of RCA and Victor

RCA Corporation records at Hagley Museum and Library

(1878–1960)

RCA Corporation photos at Hagley Museum

on the Internet Archive's Great 78 Project

Victor Records

Victor Talking Machine Company, Camden, NJ., c. 1924. (from The Roaring 20's Victrola page)

Instructions for the setting up, operation & care of The Victrola, Spring Type