Mc KINLEY MUSIC Popular, classical, sheet Music and Music books American and Foreign Catalog No. 35 of the McKINLEY Music Company - with the rare order leaf 'ORDER BLANK'.
A detailed catalog that includes hundreds of audio recordings of all kinds of music produced by the company whose price is only 10 cents per record. Because at the same time the maximum time that a record could be recorded is about 5 minutes, for many of the records offered for sale, the publisher has included the song playing notes. For example, a list of 'popular songs', 'ballads', 'house songs', 'songs For Mom', "Sentimental Songs', 'Tango Music', 'Songs for Events', 'Classical Music', and even 'Music for Industrial Workers', etc. At the end of the catalog, Available for sale the "Greatest Hits" of the era for a discounted price of 10 records for one dollar, Books on music with musical notes published by the company, as well as musical instruments and gramophones of the manufacturers of the period.
The catalog came out regularly every few months starting in the early 20th century. Due to the thin paper on which the catalog was printed, as well as the fact that individual copies were printed from it, at the time home gramophones were a valuable commodity, almost no copies of it survived. Each catalog was accompanied by an 'ORDER BLANK' separately, with empty lines to fill the order details: its name, address, and table that it had to fill in to order the records it wanted. This page is considered extremely rare, and does not appear in surviving catalogs. to the catalog before us attached the order leaf in excellent condition [not used].
64 p. [1] 'ORDER BLANK' . 27 cm. Paper slightly fragile. Good condition.
