American Record Company

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American Record Company was an American record label that was active between 1904 and 1908. The plates of the label differed from the usual black plates by their blue color. The label on the plates showed an Indian with a smoking pipe in front of a phonograph .

American Record Company was founded in 1904 in Springfield , Massachusetts by Ellsworth A. Hawthorne, Horace Sheble, and Frederick M. Prescot . Hawthorne and Sheble previously worked as dealers for Edison Records , where they had fallen out of favor due to their questionable business practices.

The company was closed in 1908 after one of Emile Berliner , Columbia Records and Victor Talking Machine Company labored trial for patent infringement had lost.

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