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Edison white wax "Perfected" era cylinders.

Title: Edison white wax "Perfected" era cylinders. Nos. 23 thru 44.
Publication: 1888-1889.

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Edison white wax cylinders collection.

Description

1 streaming audio file (61:03) : digital, mono.

Alternative Title

Good night ladies.
Merrily we roll along.
Fifth Regiment march.
Edison white wax cylinders collection

Subjects

Genre/Form

Sound recordings.

Note

Title from audiotape reel container.

Access (note)

Access via streaming audio restricted to onsite at New York Public Library secure reading rooms.

Credits (note)

Walter H. Miller (Cylinder operator: no. 23), Theo Wangemann (Cylinder operator: no. 24), [Thomas Edison] (Cylinder operator: nos. 25-27) and Col. George Gouraud (Cylinder operator: nos. ), recording engineers.

Linking Entry (note)

Forms part of the Edison white wax cylinders collection; *L(Special) 98-14.

Contents

Fifth Regiment March, by Issler's Orchestra, March 1889. [Edward Issler, conductor] Taken [recorded] by W. [Walter] H. Miller [originally recorded in West Orange, New Jersey; medley includes "Good night ladies" and "Merrily we roll along"] -- ["The Pattison waltz"] [originally recorded February 25, 1889 at The Edison Laboratory, West Orange, New Jersey] / J. N. Pattison -- [Around the world on the phonograph: Edison's letter to Mr. Blaine] (originally recorded in late October 1888, West Orange, New Jersey; this is believed to be the earilest existing recording of Thomas Edison's voice): [Take 1; audio very erratic] ; [Take 2; slightly erratic] ; [Take 3, good audio] -- Lord Mayor of London [Sir James Whitehead] [letter] to Edison -- Queen Anne's Lodge speeches (November 22? 1888; [Mr. Gladstone, or Prime Minister William E. Gladstone], host): Earl of Aberdeen [John Campbell Hamilton-Gordon], Earl of Mead (?), Lord Rowton [Montagu William Lowry-Corry], Sir John Fowler and the Civil Engineers of England -- Queen Anne's Lodge speeches (November 22? 1888; [Mr. Gladstone, or Prime Minister William E. Gladstone], host): Sir William Hunter (author of "Statistical survey of India") and 2 others (?) -- After dinner toast at Little Menlo (October 5, 1888): Hip hip hooray! (?) (Col. George Gouraud, host) -- After dinner toast at Little Menlo (October 5, 1888): Sir Arthur Sullivan and [brief excerpt] [A. M.] Broadley, barrister [Take 1; feedback and reverb erratic] ; [Take 2] ; [Take 3] (Col. George Gouraud, host) -- [After dinner toast at Little Menlo (October 5, 1888)]: Mr. [Henry] Cecil Raikes, Her Majesty's Postmaster General and Edmund Yates [address to Mr. Edison] (Col. George Gouraud, host) -- Col. Gouraud at Inventors' Institute, London England (November 1888, at midnight) [letter to Mr. Edison]: [Take 1; audio erratic] ; [Take 2, first part only; audio erratic] -- After dinner toast at Little Menlo (October 5, 1888): [Beginning of toast, listing some of the individuals at the dinner; audio erratic at end] (Col. George Gouraud, host) -- Mr. [Henry Trueman] Wood and Mr. [James] Dredge to Edison [audio erratic] -- After dinner toast at Little Menlo (October 5, 1888): Opening remarks ; Toasts and cheers to Edmund Yates, Sir Arthur Sullivan, [A. M.] Broadley, barrister and Postmaster General [audio erratic] (Col. George Gouraud, host) -- [Letter from] Col. Gouraud to Mr. Edison, December 12, 1888.

Call Number

*LT-10 9656

OCLC

916486811

Title

Edison white wax "Perfected" era cylinders. Nos. 23 thru 44.

Production

1888-1889.

Playing Time

010103

Type of Content

spoken word

performed music

Type of Medium

audio

computer

Type of Carrier

online resource

audiotape reel

Credits

Walter H. Miller (Cylinder operator: no. 23), Theo Wangemann (Cylinder operator: no. 24), [Thomas Edison] (Cylinder operator: nos. 25-27) and Col. George Gouraud (Cylinder operator: nos. ), recording engineers.

Performer

Issler's Orchestra ; [Edward Issler, conductor] (no. 23). Effie Stewart, soprano ; Theo Wangemann, piano and opening remarks (no. 24). Thomas A. Edison, letter dictation commentary (nos. 25-27). Sir James Whitehead, Lord Mayor of London, letter dictation commentary (no. 28). Prime Minister William E. Gladstone, host ; with Earl of Aberdeen, Earl of Mead (?), Lord Rowton, Sir John Fowler and Sir William Hutton [Hunter] (nos. 29-30). Col. George Gouraud, host and added commentary ; with Sir Arthur Sullivan, A. M. Broadley, [Henry] Cecil Raikes, Her Majesty's Postmaster General, Edmund Yates, Sir Henry Trueman Wood and James Dredge, commentators (nos. 31-44)

Event

Transferred to tape by the Rodgers & Hammerstein Archives, New York Public Library, 1995 August 27, from original cylinders lent by the Edison National Historic Site.

Access

Access via streaming audio restricted to onsite at New York Public Library secure reading rooms.

Original Version

Preservation copy: (1 audiotape reel : analog, two-track, 7 1/2 ips, NAB, mono ; 10 in.) in *LT-10 9656.

Linking Entry

Forms part of the Edison white wax cylinders collection; *L(Special) 98-14.

Local Note

Preservation file: (1 audio file : digital, WAV file, 96 kHz, 24 bit), in long term storage, Digital Library Processing server [myh_lt109656_v01f01_em].

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Added Author

Container of (work): Pattison, J. N. (John Nelson), 1845-1905. Pattison waltz.

Whitehead, James, Sir, 1834-1917, addressor.

Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931, addressor.

Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931, addressee.

Gladstone, W. E. (William Ewart), 1809-1898, host.

Gouraud, George Edward, 1841-1912, host.

Aberdeen and Temair, John Campbell Hamilton-Gordon, Marquess of, 1847-1934, commentator.

Rowton, Montagu William Lowry-Corry, Baron of, 1838-1903, commentator.

Fowler, John, Sir, 1817-1898, commentator.

Gouraud, George Edward, 1841-1912, commentator.

Hunter, William Wilson, 1840-1900, commentator.

Sullivan, Arthur, 1842-1900, commentator.

Broadley, Alexander Meyrick, 1847-1916, commentator.

Raikes, Henry Cecil, commentator.

Yates, Edmund, 1831-1894, commentator.

Wood, Henry Trueman, 1845-1929, commentator.

Dredge, James, 1840-1906, commentator.

Miller, Walter H., recording engineer.

Wangemann, A. Theodore E., 1855-1906, recording engineer.

Gouraud, George Edward, 1841-1912, recording engineer.

Issler, Edward, conductor.

Stewart, Effie, performer.

Wangemann, A. Theodore E., 1855-1906, performer.

Issler's Orchestra, performer.

Edison National Historic Site (Agency : U.S.)

Inventors' Institute (London, England)

Added Title

Good night ladies.

Merrily we roll along.

Fifth Regiment march.

Edison white wax cylinders collection

Found In:

Edison white wax cylinders collection.

Research Call Number

*LT-10 9656

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