ABSTRACT
Records issued by the Marsh Laboratories of Chicago, ca. 1923-1925. Orlando Marsh, a sound engineer and owner of Autograph, is credited with the earliest commercial electrical recordings, in 1924; survivors are so scarce that Autograph has been called “second if not on a par with Black Patti as the rarest of recording labels” (Henriksen). The repertoire included jazz and dance music. Jelly Roll Morton and Jesse Crawford were among the artists-they were the first persons to make commercial electric records.
