The Great 78 Project is a collaborative project between the Internet Archive, George Blood LP, and the Archive of Contemporary Music that seeks to work with the community in order to locate and preserve as many 78rpm records as possible. The current count is over 200,000 but are always looking for more. Most of these donated 78s are also being digitized for future generations.
From about 1898 to the 1950s, an estimated 3 million sides (~3 minute recordings) have been made on 78rpm discs. While the commercially viable recordings will have been restored or remastered onto LP’s or CD, there is still research value in the artifacts and usage evidence in the often rare 78rpm discs and recordings.
https://t.co/bVbIeFbPDo Sugar Foot Stomp,
Performer: Jan Savitt and his Top Hatters, Joe Oliver, Louis Armstrong— thegreat78project (@great78project) August 22, 2017
https://t.co/uztVxCaSAi Minnie The Mermaid (A Love Song in Fish Time) (Minnie la Sirena),
Performer: Bernie Cummings and His Hotel New Yo…— thegreat78project (@great78project) August 22, 2017
A lovely overview of the Internet Archive's project to digitize hundreds of thousands of 78rpm records. https://t.co/6BSYWL8IL9
— Jason Scott (@textfiles) August 18, 2017
