Special Leader Record (England) / c. 1912
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Corporate background:
Unknown (have info? Please send to info.re.78s@shaw.ca).

‘Ragtime,’ as designated here, was a style of syncopated piano music originating  that became immensely popular just before WWI, and contributed hugely to the development of jazz.

Its best-known exponents were Scott Joplin and Jelly Roll Morton.

Label scan courtesy of UK music researcher and collector Bill Dean-Myatt.
Design: The border and ornaments are of the late Victorian variety, thin and mechanical-looking.

The label name is also set in a thin, mechanical-looking condensed sans serif.
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