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Audio Recording Fewkes' second attempt at demonstrating "Mr. Phonograph" to a visiting Passamaquoddy Jesse Walter Fewkes collection of Passamaquoddy cylinder recordings SR16

Fewkes' second attempt at demonstrating "Mr. Phonograph" to a visiting Passamaquoddy / spoken by J. Walter Fewkes (Digital restoration from digital preservation master file)

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Fewkes' second attempt at demonstrating "Mr. Phonograph" to a visiting Passamaquoddy / spoken by J. Walter Fewkes (Digital preservation master file from original cylinder)

Fewkes' second attempt at demonstrating "Mr. Phonograph" to a visiting Passamaquoddy / spoken by J. Walter Fewkes (Track from digital preservation copy of AFC preservation tape LWO 6528 R1B)

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Title

  • Fewkes' second attempt at demonstrating "Mr. Phonograph" to a visiting Passamaquoddy

Other Title

  • Jesse Walter Fewkes collection of Passamaquoddy cylinder recordings SR16

Names

  • Fewkes, Jesse Walter, 1850-1930, recordist, speaker.

Created / Published

  • 1891.

Headings

  • -  Passamaquoddy Indians--Maine--Calais
  • -  Indians of North America--Northeastern States
  • -  Tales
  • -  Phonograph--19th century

Genre

  • Field recordings
  • Cylinder recordings

Notes

  • -  Recorded by Jesse Walter Fewkes possibly in Boston in 1891.
  • -  Digital preservation copy, MAVIS no. 2031748-2-1, from original cylinder on Archeophone #27. Library of Congress, 2015 December 04. 88.48 MB BWF.
  • -  Digital restoration copy, MAVIS no. 2031748-4-1, from preservation master file (from original cylinder) using Izotope RX4, Cedar Cambridge v.10 and Izotope Ozone 7. Library of Congress, 2016 October 31. 36.41 Mbytes BWF.
  • -  Digital preservation copy, MAVIS no. 2005666-3-2 (at 41:08), from preservation tape reel. Library of Congress, 2014 January 14. 1.48 GB BWF.
  • -  Preservation tape reel LWO 6528 R1B (at 41:08) from original cylinder. Washington, D.C. Library of Congress, 197u. 1 sound tape reel ; analog, 7 1/2 ips, mono. ; 10.5 in.
  • -  Engineer notes: no song or chants, just Fewkes doing his Mr. Phonograph test
  • -  Jesse Walter Fewkes collection of Passamaquoddy cylinder recordings, AFC 1972/003: SR16, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
  • -  FCP notes: See cylinder 4,232, the first attempt.
  • -  Title information and FCP notes from Federal Cylinder Project (Washington, D.C.: American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, 1984), volume 2, p. 227.
  • -  Related description in Fewkes, J. W. "A contribution to Passamaquoddy Folk-lore" Journal of American Folk-lore 3, no. 11 (1890) p. 258-80 https://www.jstor.org/stable/534065?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents External
  • -  Related Fewkes' fieldnotes are located at the National Anthropological Archives (ms. 4408:9) p. 39, 47-52.
  • -  In English

Medium

  • 1 sound cylinder (00:01:11) ; 4 in.

Source Collection

  • Forms part of: Jesse Walter Fewkes collection of Passamaquoddy cylinder recordings

Repository

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2015655565

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  • audio

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Chicago citation style:

Fewkes, Jesse Walter, Recordist, Speaker. Fewkes' second attempt at demonstrating "Mr. Phonograph" to a visiting Passamaquoddy. 1891. Audio. https://www.loc.gov/item/2015655565/.

APA citation style:

Fewkes, J. W. (1891) Fewkes' second attempt at demonstrating "Mr. Phonograph" to a visiting Passamaquoddy. [Audio] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2015655565/.

MLA citation style:

Fewkes, Jesse Walter, Recordist, Speaker. Fewkes' second attempt at demonstrating "Mr. Phonograph" to a visiting Passamaquoddy. 1891. Audio. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2015655565/>.