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The Victor Talking Machine Company was an American recording company and phonograph manufacturer, incorporated in 1901. Victor was an independent enterprise until 1929 when it was purchased by the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) and became the RCA Victor Division of the Radio Corporation of America until late 1968, when it was renamed RCA ...
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In 1929, Victor merged with the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) and became RCA Victor, the dominant recording company in America for over six decades. The iconic “His Master’s Voice” logo was trademarked in 1901 by the Victor Talking Machine Company. This widely recognized logo is based off a painting by Francis Barraud using his dog Nipper.
The Victor Talking Machine Company was founded in 1901 after the development of the cylinder phonograph. It went into the business of producing phonographs, providing people with recorded sounds and music.
Nipper (1884 – September 1895), also known as the RCA Victor dog, was a dog from Bristol, England. Bred as a terrier mix, he served as the model for a 1898 painting by British painter Francis Barraud titled His Master's Voice.
