Archeophone Records is a record company and label founded in 1998 to document the early days of America's recording history. It was started by Richard Martin and Meagan Hennessey, a husband and wife who run the company in

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. Archeophone restores and remasters audio from

cylinders A cylinder () has traditionally been a three-dimensional solid, one of the most basic of curvilinear geometric shapes. In elementary geometry, it is considered a prism with a circle as its base. A cylinder may also be defined as an infinite ...

and discs of

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, and

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recordings. Archeophone has released recordings by Billy Murray,

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, and by jazz ensembles the Six Brown Brothers, the Benson Orchestra of Chicago, and Art Hickman's Orchestra. Compilations include

Vess Ossman Sylvester Louis "Vess" Ossman (August 21, 1868 – December 7, 1923) was a leading five-string banjoist and popular recording artist of the early 20th century. Biography Sylvester Louis Ossman was born in Hudson, New York, and made his firs ...

, Arthur Collins and Byron G. Harlan,

Henry Burr Henry Burr (January 15, 1882 – April 6, 1941) was a Canadian singer, radio performer and producer. He was born Harry Haley McClaskey and used Henry Burr as one of his many pseudonyms, in addition to Irving Gillette, Henry Gillette, Alfred Ale ...

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, Fred Van Eps,

Sophie Tucker Sophie Tucker (born Sofia Kalish; January 13, 1886 – February 9, 1966) was a Russian-born American singer, comedian, actress, and radio personality. Known for her powerful delivery of comical and risqué songs, she was one of the most popula ...

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, and the

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, Peerless, and Haydn Quartets. The company is not affiliated with the

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manufacturer Henri Chamoux.

Awards and honors

Grammy Award for Best Historical Album The Grammy Award for Best Historical Album has been presented since 1979 and recognizes achievements in audio restoration. Since this category's creation, the award had several minor name changes: *In 1979 the award was known as Best Historical R ...

, ''Lost Sounds: Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry, 1891–1922'', 2006

Grammy Award nominations

Best Historical Album * '' Actionable Offenses: Indecent Phonograph Recordings from the 1890s'' (2007) * ''Debate '08: Taft and Bryan Campaign on the Edison Phonograph'' (2008) * ''Sophie Tucker, Origins of the Red Hot Mama, 1910-1922'' (2009) * ''Isham Jones, Happy: The 1920 Rainbo Orchestra Sides'' (2014) * ''Waxing the Gospel: Mass Evangelism & the Phonograph, 1890–1900'' (2016) * ''Celebrated, 1895-1896'' (2020) * ''Etching the Voice: Emile Berliner and the First Commercial Gramophone Discs, 1889-1895'' (2021) * ''The Moaninest Moan of Them All: The Jazz Saxophone of Loren McMurray, 1920-1922'' (2023)

Best Album Notes The Grammy Award – Best Album Notes has been presented since 1964. From 1973 to 1976 (the 15th through 18th Awards), a second award was presented for Best Album Notes – Classical. Those awards are listed under those years below. The award reco ...

* '' Actionable Offenses: Indecent Phonograph Recordings from the 1890s'' (2007) * ''Debate '08: Taft and Bryan Campaign on the Edison Phonograph'' (2008) * ''Sophie Tucker, Origins of the Red Hot Mama, 1910–1922'' (2009) * ''There Breathes a Hope: The Legacy of John Work II and His Fisk Jubilee Quartet, 1909–1916'' (2010) * ''Isham Jones, Happy: The 1920 Rainbo Orchestra Sides'' (2014) * ''Joseph C. Smith's Orchestra, Songs of the Night: Dance Recordings, 1916–1925'' (2015) * ''Waxing the Gospel: Mass Evangelism & the Phonograph, 1890–1900 (2016)'' * ''Edouard-Léon Scott de Martinville, Inventor of Sound Recording: A Bicentennial Tribute'' (2017) * ''4 Banjo Songs, 1891-1897: Foundational Recordings of America’s Iconic Instrument'' (2018) * ''Alpine Dreaming: The Helvetia Records Story, 1920-1924'' (2018) * ''The Product of Our Souls: The Sound and Sway of James Reese Europe's Society Orchestra'' (2018) * ''At the Minstrel Show: Minstrel Routines From the Studio, 1894-1926'' (2020) * ''The Missing Link: How Gus Haenschen Got Us From Joplin to Jazz and Shaped the Music Business'' (2020) * ''Etching the Voice: Emile Berliner and the First Commercial Gramophone Discs, 1889-1895'' (2021)

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Awards and honors

Grammy Award nominations

See also

References

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