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    Kinetophone Actor Audition (ca. 1913)
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    Kinetophone Actor Audition (ca. 1913)

    Guido Gialdini whistling Arditi’s The Kiss (1908)
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    Love & Lust

    Guido Gialdini whistling Arditi’s The Kiss (1908)

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

    Youssef Tage - Six Traditional Syrian Songs (1940)
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    Youssef Tage - Six Traditional Syrian Songs (1940)

    By the Light of the Silvery Moon (1909)
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    Love & Lust

    By the Light of the Silvery Moon (1909)

    John Wanamaker recounts a Leo Tolstoy anecdote (1908)
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    Music & Arts

    John Wanamaker recounts a Leo Tolstoy anecdote (1908)

    Recordings of Pygmy Music from the 1946 Ogooué-Congo Mission
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    Colonialism & the 'Other', Customs & Culture

    Recordings of Pygmy Music from the 1946 Ogooué-Congo Mission

    The Bouncer at the Blazing Rag (1902)
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    Humour & Satire

    The Bouncer at the Blazing Rag (1902)

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

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

    Two songs from Verdi’s La Traviata (1910)
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    Two songs from Verdi’s La Traviata (1910)

    Come Take a Trip in my Airship (1904)
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    Come Take a Trip in my Airship (1904)

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

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

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    A Midsummer Schottische

    Traditional Italian song with Zampogna and Ciaramella (1920)
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    Traditional Italian song with Zampogna and Ciaramella (1920)

    Jelly Roll Morton (1927)
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    Jelly Roll Morton (1927)

    James Mooney’s Ghost Dance Recordings (1894)
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    Customs & Culture

    James Mooney’s Ghost Dance Recordings (1894)

    Slovak Folk Songs (1928/30)
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    Slovak Folk Songs (1928/30)

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

    Music Hall Performer Billy Williams
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    Music Hall Performer Billy Williams

    Frank C. Stanley singing Auld Lang Syne (1910)
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    Frank C. Stanley singing Auld Lang Syne (1910)

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

    Will Rogers Talks to the Bankers (1924)
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    Politics

    Will Rogers Talks to the Bankers (1924)

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

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

    Recital of The 23rd Psalm and “He Leadeth Me” (1919)
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    Religion, Myth & Legend

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