ABOUT

This collection, administered by the US National Park Service (Thomas Edison's lab is classified as a national historic park), holds 11,000 cylinder recordings and 38,000 disc recordings from the years 1898-1929. Some recordings have been reissued on CDs. In general users may request the copying of one recording at the time. No online access is currently provided from this site, but some materials can be found at other sites. The Archive is rich in related holdings, including black-and-white photographs of early performers (c. 5,000) and correspondence. Three hundred forty-one silent films made by the Edison company between 1898 and 1912 can be found at the Library of Congress's Inventing Entertainment website.

RDF

data.open.ac.uk

TYPE

Catalogue

HOMEPAGE

visit the homepage of the project

EXTENT

<100000 items

LICENSE

Open Access

SUBJECT

Metadata

TASKS

purposes or situations wherein to reuse the resource:

music listening

SCOPE

items are gathered by

Artist

AUDIENCE

amateurs

MUSIC FEATURES

for each item is described:

Descriptive Metadata

FEATURES AND SERVICES

the resource provides:

Browsing

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Interoperable format

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Playable