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