Tara (U.S.A.) / c. 1949
Corporate background:
Evidently aimed at the segment of U.S.
population with Irish ancestry.
Label scan courtesy of UK music researcher
and collector Bill Dean-Myatt.
Design: Tara, a
hill site in Ireland, is known in folk lore as the place where
the kings of Ireland were crowned in ancient times.
The harp is a recognized symbol of Irish
culture.
Uncial lettering, with its widely rounded
shapes, would also have been typically Celtic, yet the
vertical, open-spaced Gothic lettering displayed here echoes
the shape of the harp.