La Belle Creole (Haiti) / c. 1951
Corporate background:
Label scan courtesy of UK musicologist and
collector Bill Dean-Myatt.
Design: A very
simple design but showing some interesting hand-drawn script
lettering.
Creole is a mixed-input language, mostly
French and African, spoken by most Haitians.
The imprinting was done in Linotype Metro,
a commonly-used font in commercial letterpress print shops.