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Title: One of the first recordings ever made
Date: 1878
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: A full ten years before Edison patented his gramophone, this German language cylinder documents the sounds of lambs, cows, cuckoos, and other fauna.

Title: Happiness is the only good
Creator: Ingersoll, Robert Green, 1833-1899
Date: 1882
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection

Title: German advertisement for the Edison phonograph
Creator: Spencer, Len, 1867-1914
Date: 1888
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: A German advertisement for the Edison phonograph. The recording is believed to have been made in 1888 with Len Spencer speaking. This recording comes from an Edison two-minute wax special advertising record issued in 1906, which was provided to dealers as a demonstration record for Edison cylinder machines. The recording begins with the words "I am the Edison phonograph."

Title: Thomas Edison's promotion efforts in London
Creator: Broadley, Alexander Meyrick, 1847-1916
Date: 1888
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: Alexander Meyrick Broadley, Barrister at Law, complements Thomas A. Edison on the invention of the phonograph. Colonel George Edward Gouraud, Edison's representative in Britain, introduces Joseph Charles Parkinson, telegrapher, who then speaks. Part of Edison's promotional efforts in London.

Title: Preservation of sound through records
Creator: Sullivan, Arthur, 1842-1900
Date: 1888
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection

Title: Speech by Karl Theodor von Inama-Sternegg on the introduction of common, equal, and direct voting rights in Austria
Creator: Inama-Sternegg, Karl Theodor Ferdinand Michael von, 1843-1908
Date: 1888/1908
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection

Title: Speech by Gustave Eiffel
Creator: Eiffel, Gustave, 1832-1923
Date: 1888/1923
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection

Title: Emile Berliner recites the Lord's Prayer in English on a five-inch demonstration record
Creator: Berliner, Emile, 1851-1929
Date: 1889
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: Emile Berliner recites "The Lord's Prayer" in English. Taken from a five-inch demonstration record.

Title: Vess Ossman plays banjo solo "Georgia Camp Meeting" on an old Columbia cylinder
Creator: Ossman, Vess L.
Date: 1890
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection

Title: Oscar Wilde reads from his poem, The Ballad of Reading Gaol
Creator: Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900
Date: 1890
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection

Title: You can always explain things away
Creator: Hopper, De Wolf, 1858-1935
Date: 1890
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: DeWolf Hopper sings "You can always explain things away."

Title: Excerpt from the poem "Charge of the Light Brigade"
Creator: Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892
Date: 1890
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection

Title: P.T. Barnum thanks his English audience
Creator: Barnum, P. T. (Phineas Taylor), 1810-1891
Date: 1890-02-12
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: American showman P.T. Barnum, thanks his English audience and acknowledges that his voice will be preserved for future generations via the Edison cylinder.

Title: Big Ben
Date: 1890-07-16
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: First sound effect record made by technicians at Edison House, London, of Big Ben Striking 10:30, 10:45, and 11:00.

Title: Florence Nightingale talks about her friends in Balaclava during the Crimean War
Creator: Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910
Date: 1890-07-30
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: A recording of Florence Nightingale speaking about her friends in Balaclava during the Crimean War.

Title: Kenneth Landfrey, the bugler who sounded the Charge of Light Brigade plays the same charge for Colonel Gouraud at Edison House, London
Creator: Landfrey, Kenneth
Date: 1890-08-02
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection

Title: Grover Cleveland gives his "front porch" campaign speech
Creator: Cleveland, Grover, 1837-1908
Date: 1892
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection

Title: Grover Cleveland delivers remarks invoking the heroes of 1776 as models of independent thought, in his campaign against Benjamin Harrison
Creator: Cleveland, Grover, 1837-1908
Date: 1892
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: Democrat Grover Cleveland, during his 1892 presidential campaign against Republican Benjamin Harrison, delivers remarks invoking the heroes of 1776 as models of independent thought. Cleveland was originally recorded on an Edison Cylinder.

Title: Address of doubtful authenticity, Grover Cleveland's 1892 campaign speech
Creator: Cleveland, Grover, 1837-1908
Date: 1892
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: Alleged to be approximately the first minute of Grover Cleveland's 1892 campaign speech. Recording begins with the playing of Hail to the Chief. The authenticity of the recording is in doubt.

Title: Ave Maria
Creator: Leo XIII, Pope, 1810-1903
Date: 1893
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection

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