An 'album' of 78's was like a picture album, that is a bound, cardboard-covered book with generally plain brown record sleeves inside. I don't know when the first album was made, or whether the Carter family was produced in this form. The first 'album' of this type that we had in my family was from Capital Records, I think, and contained various artists on that label and a few others. By the time I was old enough to play them the records had been mixed with others or broken. The album cover was printed in two or three colors I think, and was most likely from the 1940's. I remember that the OKEH records we had had the logo printed on the brown sleeve.