Research Guides: Analog sound recordings: Discography

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UCSB Cylinder Audio Archive
A digital collection of more than 10,000 cylinder recordings held by the UCSB Library. On this site you will have the opportunity to find out more about the cylinder format, listen to thousands of musical and spoken selections from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and discover a little-known era of recorded sound.

AHRC Research Centre for the History and Analysis of Recorded Music (CHARM)
Through this website you can discover more about CHARM's discographical project, residential symposia, and research projects, as well as access our online discography and library of ex-copyright recordings, see details about our publications, or find information about early recording history and methods for analysing recordings.
The 78rpm Record Home Page
Provides links to labels, discographies, and repositories
The Online Discographical Project
Discographies of 78s, by label, alphabetically. Not searchable.

Mostly 45, some 78 and LP. Searchable by label; artist search link doesn't work.