Editing Autograph Records (section)

{{Short description|American record label}}
{{Infobox record label <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Music -->
| name        = Autograph Records
| image       = <!-- logo, such as "LABEL-LOGO.jpg" -->
| image_size  = <!-- size -->
| parent      = Marsh Laboratories
| founded     = 1920s
| founder     = [[Orlando R. Marsh]]
| fate        = <!-- explain the reason of the closing-->
| defunct     = <!-- year the label dissolved, such as {{end date|1990}} -->
| status      = Defunct
| distributor = <!-- distributors, separate with commas or <br /> -->
| genre       = [[Jazz]]
| country     = U.S.
| location    = [[Chicago, Illinois]]
}}

'''Autograph Records''' was an American [[record label]] in the 1920s owned by Marsh Laboratories of [[Chicago, Illinois]], which was owned by [[Orlando R. Marsh]], an electrical engineer.

Marsh made recordings by his own experimental methods. Autograph was the first U.S. record label to release recordings made electrically with [[microphone]]s, as opposed to the acoustical or mechanical method that was more commonly used.<ref name="tholmes2006">{{cite book|last=Holmes|first=Thom|title=The Routledge guide to music technology|year= 2006|publisher=CRC Press|page=97}}Columbia Graphophone marketed electrical 12-inch in early 20s.</ref> According to author Brian Rust, Marsh's first electrical records were made in 1924.<ref name="BRust">Rust, Brian. "Autograph, a glimpse into the past." ''Storyville'' 1972; 40: 124-126.</ref>