Great Northern Mfg. Co.

The Great Northern Manufacturing Company, based in Chicago, Illinois, produced records with particularly large spindle holes (9/16-inch in diameter) that only worked on the company's own gramophones. Between 1907 and 1916, it produced the Harmony Disc Record label. In 1916, it joined with several other companies that marketed odd-spindle labels (United Talking Machine Co., Harmony Talking Machine Co., Standard Talking Machine Co., Aretino Co. and O'Neill-James Company) to form the Consolidated Talking Machine Company, Inc. of Chicago, and Harmony Disc Record was discontinued on favor of the new Consolidated Record label.