Vim Records

Vim discs include issues of ragtime banjo music recorded by Vess L. Ossman.

The Vim Company was founded in 1896 in Chicago, Illinois, and it was active in labeling records in the first decade of the 20th century.

Vim was recorded and manufactured by the International Talking Machine Company and Leeds & Catlin.

Known address are:[3] A branch office was opened in late 1903 at 704 West Walnut Street, Des Moines, Iowa.

[7] The last listing for the firm producing records in Chicago was in the Edison Phonograph Monthly January 1910 issue.

[8] The owner and president of the company was Leon Atwell Olmsted, a native of New York who moved to Chicago in the 1890s.