Biograph Records is a record label founded in 1967 by Arnold S. Caplin. It specialized in early American ragtime, jazz, and blues music. Biograph was the first label to issue records made from piano rolls created by Scott Joplin, Jelly Roll Morton and George Gershwin.In 2002, Biograph Records was acquired by Shout! Factory. Between 2007 and 2008, Collectables Records reissued forty compact discs' worth of Biograph recordings.