United States Phonograph Company

It was formed in the Spring of 1893 by Victor Emerson, manager of the New Jersey Phonograph Company.

[2] After the collapse of the North American Phonograph Company in August 1894, the United States Phonograph Company became one of the industry's largest suppliers of records, competing mostly with the Columbia Phonograph Company who had joined with the American Graphophone Company to manufacture graphophones (at this point nearly identical to phonographs), blank wax cylinders, and original and duplicate records.

[3] The USPC manufactured duplicates as well,[4] which allowed their recording program to reach the scale of competing with Columbia's.

Their central location and proximity to New York allowed them to record the most popular artists of the 1890s, including George J. Gaskin, Dan W. Quinn, Len Spencer, Russell Hunting and Issler's Orchestra.

Emerson left the company to lead Columbia's recording department around the summer of 1896.