ABSTRACT
A firm set up in 1904 by Odeon, through Hawthorne & Sheble, with Frederick Marion Prescott; the plant was in Springfield, Massachusetts.?.O. Prescott, brother of Frederick Prescott, was manager. In October 1904 the first records were announced, in two sizes:10 5/8 inches (the same size as the German Odeons) and seven inches. They were doublesided discs.
