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Title
Happiness is the only good
Creator
Ingersoll, Robert Green, 1833-1899
Date
1882
Collection
G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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
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
Title
Steve Porter sings "Baggage Coach Ahead" on an old Columbia cylinder
Creator
Porter, Steve, 1864-1936
Date
1893/1898
Collection
G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Title
Edison Quartet sings "Dolly Gray" on an old Edison cylinder
Date
1893/1898
Collection
G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Title
Ed Favor sings "Mr. Dooley" on an old Edison cylinder
Creator
Favor, Ed
Date
1893/1898
Collection
G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Title
Benjamin Harrison speaks
Creator
Harrison, Benjamin, 1833-1901
Date
1894/1899
Collection
G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description
The only known recording of President Benjamin Harrison presumably made years after his presidency by Giuseppe Bettini, sometime between 1894 and 1899. This modern recording features a narrator explaining how Harrison's voice was recorded and features the 1814 campaign song of Harrison's grandfather "Old Tippecanoe," President William Henry Harrison, which was resurrected for Benjamin's 1888 campaign. The Library of Congress says only one copy of the recording has been found and is located at...
Show moreThe only known recording of President Benjamin Harrison presumably made years after his presidency by Giuseppe Bettini, sometime between 1894 and 1899. This modern recording features a narrator explaining how Harrison's voice was recorded and features the 1814 campaign song of Harrison's grandfather "Old Tippecanoe," President William Henry Harrison, which was resurrected for Benjamin's 1888 campaign. The Library of Congress says only one copy of the recording has been found and is located at the Benjamin Harrison Memorial Home and this recording was made from that recording.
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