Kinetophone Actor Audition (ca. 1913)

Guido Gialdini whistling Arditi’s The Kiss (1908)

Tom Ennis - Irish Jigs, Reels, and Polkas (1917)

Youssef Tage - Six Traditional Syrian Songs (1940)

By the Light of the Silvery Moon (1909)

John Wanamaker recounts a Leo Tolstoy anecdote (1908)

Recordings of Pygmy Music from the 1946 Ogooué-Congo Mission

The Bouncer at the Blazing Rag (1902)

W. F. Hooley reads Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address (1898)

Two songs from Verdi’s La Traviata (1910)

Come Take a Trip in my Airship (1904)

Frank Desprez’s “Lasca” read by Harry E. Humphrey (1920)

A Midsummer Schottische

Traditional Italian song with Zampogna and Ciaramella (1920)

Jelly Roll Morton (1927)

James Mooney’s Ghost Dance Recordings (1894)

Slovak Folk Songs (1928/30)

Adelina Patti singing “The Last Rose of Summer” (1905)

Music Hall Performer Billy Williams

Frank C. Stanley singing Auld Lang Syne (1910)

“Omar Rabbi Elozor” by Cantor Meyer Kanewsky and his choir (1919)

Will Rogers Talks to the Bankers (1924)

President Woodrow Wilson’s daughter singing Star Spangled Banner (1915)

Recital of The 23rd Psalm and “He Leadeth Me” (1919)