Today’s post is by David Sager, Research Assistant in the Recorded Sound Research Center
This blog relies on recordings from the Library of Congress’s National Jukebox, a resource with over 10,000 early recordings which is well worth exploring. You can also hear thousands more rare recordings, including radio broadcasts from the 1930s, 40s, and 50s by visiting the Library’s Recorded Sound Research Center, located in the Library’s James Madison Building in Washington D.C.
Making voice recordings during the era of the mechanical, or acoustical process (ca. 1885 – 1925) was no mean fea