The New York Recording Laboratories

(1917–1932) Use as Record Company. A division of the Wisconsin Chair Company of Port Washington, Wisconsin, the New York Recording Laboratories have achieved near mythical status as the source of some of the rarest and most sought-after jazz and blues recordings. However, the New York Recording Laboratories legally never existed except as a trade name of Wisconsin Chair, a fact verified during a 1936 trial in which it was revealed that “the New York Recording Laboratories is not and was not at any time a corporation, a partnership, or an individual” (Wisconsin Chair Co. v. I.G. Ely Co., 91 S.W. 2d 913).

Chicago sessions contracted to The Starr Piano Co. studios, Richmond, Indiana (c. 3–10/1929); own studio on Falls Road, Grafton, Wisconsin (c. 11/1929–1932)

(Sub) contracted for: American Record Corporation, many of whose labels used NYRL masters on occasion.

Foreign labels using Company masters:
Usiba (Poland); probably many others.