Vic Damon Collection

Alice and Vic Damon (recording engineer), Sondra and Jon Steele (performers), Lou and Betty (Peterson) Blasco (publisher and lyricist), sitting around a table (left to right) with their Cash Box...

PA room at Municipal Auditorium, depicting work desk, equipment racks, and record cutting lathes.

Vic Damon (right) and unidentified man driving the "Sound Bug," a novelty car with sound system advertising Damon Recording Studios; street scene appears to be a parade, heading south from 11th Street...

Crowd gathered around representatives of Damon Transcription Laboratory, who are doing a live remote recording from Union Station, Kansas City.

Ed Roche operating a reel-to-reel recorder manufactured by the Stancil-Hoffman Company in Hollywood.

Ed Roche standing with recording/broadcasting equipment.

Recording/broadcasting studio with piano and microphone at Damon Transcribing Facilities.

The New Bennie Moten Orchestra, outside the Mutual Musicians Foundation, 1823 Highland, Kansas City.

Close-up of record cutting lathe in the PA room at Municipal Auditorium.

PA room at Municipal Auditorium, showing record cutting lathes.

Record pressing equipment.

Sondra Steele, Vic Damon, Jon Steele; listening to the Steeles' hit record "My Happiness," recorded and released by Damon Recording Studios.

Unidentified man operating record cutting lathe in the Transcription Laboratory of Damon Sound Service.

Vic Damon (left, holding stopwatch) and unidentified man operating record cutting lathes.

Vic Damon holding a 16" instantaneous-cut disc and standing next to record cutting lathes at Damon Recording Studios.

Vic Damon operating equipment at Damon Recording Studios.

Vic Damon operating record cutting lathe.