Album Notes

Politicians 1 William Jennings Bryan Title: Immortality (Campaign Speech) Recording Date: 1908 2 Woodrow Wilson Title: Address To American Indians Recording Date: 1913 3 Grover Cleveland Title: Unknown (Campaign Speech) Recording Date: 1892 4 William McKinley Title: Unknown (Speech at Republican Convention) Recording Date: 1896 5 William Howard Taft Title: Rights and Progress of the Negro (Campaign Speech) Recording Date: 1908 6 Theodore Roosevelt Title: The Right of the People to Rule (Campaign Speech) Recording Date: August 1912 7 Garrett A. Hobart (Vice President) Title: Words of Welcome Recording Date: May 1, 1898 Inventors & Explorers 8 Lt. Ernest H. Shackleton Title: My South Polar Expedition Recording Date: March 30, 1910 9 Commander Robert E Peary Title: The Discovery Of The North Pole Recording Date: 1910 10 Thomas A. Watson Title: Unknown (Talking About Bell Inventing the Telephone) Recording Date: 1914 11 Thomas A. Edison Title: "Let Us never Forget" (Talking About the Aftermath of WWI) Recording Date: 1916 Authors & Poets 12 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Title: Unknown (Talking About Sherlock Holmes and Spiritualism) Recording Date: May 14, 1930 13 WB Yeats Title: The Lake Isle of Innisfree (Reading From His Poem) Recording Date: October 4, 1932 14 George Bernard Shaw Title: Einstein and the Jews (Speech Promoting Jewry at an Event Honoring Einstein) Recording Date: October 28, 1930 15 G.K. Chesterton Title: The Spices Of Life Recording Date: Unknown (Mid 1930's) 16 Oscar Wilde Title: The Ballad Of Reading Jail (Reading From His Poem) Recording Date: 1898 17 Leo Tolstoy Title: "For Every Day" (Reading From His Book in English) Recording Date: 1907 Interesting Persons 18 Harry Houdini Title: The Chinese Water Torture Chamber (Practicing Spiel During a Rehearsal) Recording Date: 1914 19 Florence Nightingale Title: Greetings to the Dear Old Comrades of Balaclava (Speech for Veteran's Benefit) Recording Date: July 30, 1890 20 Edwin Booth Title: "Othello" (Reading from Shakespeare) Recording Date: 1892 21 General Nelson A. Miles Title: Unknown (Remarks During His Visit at the Edison Laboratory) Recording Date: December 28, 1914 22 Andrew Carnegie Title: Unknown (This is the Audio From a Lost Edison Kinetophone Movie) Recording Date: January 20, 1914 23 William F. Cody (Buffalo Bill) Title: "Sentiments on the Cuban Question" Recording Date: April 20, 1898 24 General William Booth Title: Salvation Army Speech Recording Date: 1902 25 Pope Leo XIII Title: Benediction To The Catholic People Recording Date: 1903