Collections Spotlight: National Jukebox

The National Jukebox provides streaming access to just over 16,000 recordings made between 1901 and 1925, mostly by the Victor Talking Machine Company and Columbia Records. You can browse and sort recordings by genre, artist, subject, language, or year, including a day-by-day guide of published recordings. There are selected playlists for you to sample or you can create your own playlist. In addition to the recordings, this collection includes articles and essays and more than 80 artist biographies. Use the links below to start exploring

Browsing Options

• Genre
• Artist
• Subject
• Language
• Recordings day by day

Select Playlists

• National Jukebox Sampler
• Gems from the Jukebox
• Black Broadway and Tin Pan Alley
• Civil War Music
• Comic Affairs of the Heart
• Early Tin Pan Alley
• Eclectic Acoustic
• The Fox Trot
• Pack Up Your Troubles
• Ragtime
• Rivers
• Songs by Irving Berlin
• Songs by George M. Cohan
• Sousa’s Band in Concert
• Spoken Word
• Temperance & Prohibition

Articles & Essays

• Acoustical Recording
• Artist Biographies
• Glossary of National Jukebox Terms
• Making the National Jukebox
• Phonograph Advertising
• Stroh Violin
• Victrola Book of the Opera
• What is a Take?