The Recorded Sound Research Center continues to digitize sound recordings including early commercial music now in the public domain, radio broadcasts, interview and other audio. The center regularly adds digitized content, as noted in the About the Collection section for each collection.
Digital Collections
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CollectionAmerican Leaders Speak: Recordings from World War I The Nation's Forum recordings were made between 1918 and 1920 in an effort to preserve the voices of prominent Americans; in most cases, they are the only surviving recordings of a speaker. The project originated with St. Louis attorney Guy Golterman (1879-1967), an active supporter of the opera and other performing arts. With the endorsement of the Department of State's Committee on Public Information…- Contributor: Robinson, Corinne Roosevelt - Harding, Warren G. (Warren Gamaliel) - Purdy, Richard A. (Richard Augustus) - White, George - Daniels, Josephus - Gerard, James W. (James Watson) - Long, Breckinridge - Baker, Newton Diehl - Cox, James M. (James Middleton) - Vanderlip, Frank A. (Frank Arthur) ... Robinson, Corinne Roosevelt - Harding, Warren G. (Warren Gamaliel) - Purdy, Richard A. (Richard Augustus) - White, George - Daniels, Josephus - Gerard, James W. (James Watson) - Long, Breckinridge - Baker, Newton Diehl - Cox, James M. (James Middleton) - Vanderlip, Frank A. (Frank Arthur) - Lewis, James - Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano) - Wood, Leonard - Hitchcock, Gilbert M. (Gilbert Monell) - Colby, Bainbridge - Wise, Stephen S. (Stephen Samuel) - Owen, Robert L. (Robert Latham) - Lane, Franklin K. - Butler, Nicholas Murray - Cummings, Homer S. (Homer Stillé) - Hays, Will H. (Will Harrison) - Rockefeller, John D., (John Davison) - Lodge, Henry Cabot - Pershing, John J. (John Joseph) - Gompers, Samuel - Clark, Champ - De Valera, Éamon - Coolidge, Calvin - Poindexter, Miles - McAdoo, W. G. (William Gibbs) - Palmer, A. Mitchell (Alexander Mitchell)
- Date: 1918
Collection Items: View 97 Items
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CollectionEmile Berliner and the Birth of the Recording Industry This collection showcases the work of Emile Berliner, a prominent inventor at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries. Overlooked by today's historians, Berliner's creative genius rivaled that of his better-known contemporaries Thomas Alva Edison and Alexander Graham Bell, and, like the works of these two inventors, Berliner's innovations helped shape the modern American way of life.- Contributor: Library of Congress. Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program
- Date: 2002
Collection Items: View 532 Items
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CollectionJoe Smith Joe Smith with Richard Perry photo: Sandy Gibson More than 25 years ago, retired music executive Joe Smith accomplished a Herculean feat—he got more than 200 celebrated singers, musicians and industry icons to talk about their lives, music, experiences and contemporaries. In 2012 Smith donated this treasure trove of unedited sound recordings to the nation's library.- Date: 1985
Collection Items: View 198 Items
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CollectionThe Library of Congress Celebrates the Songs of America See and Hear American History Through Song "Know the songs of a country and you will know its history for the true feeling of a people speaks through what they sing."- Date: 1581
Collection Items: View 52,091 Items
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CollectionNational Jukebox The National Jukebox features over 10,000 78rpm disc sides issued by the Victor Talking Machine Co. between 1900 and 1925.Collection Items: View 16,441 Items
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CollectionSigmund Freud Papers Digitization of this collection was made possible by The Polonsky Foundation.- Contributor: Freud, Sigmund
Collection Items: View 2,205 Items
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CollectionSports Byline Since 1988, the Sports Byline USA radio series has regularly presented interviews with notable figures from the world of sports. To this point, they have aired over 6,400 such interviews with athletes, coaches, trainers, managers, owners, writers and others in the areas of baseball, football, basketball, hockey, soccer, tennis, golf, track and field and other sports.- Date: 1988
Collection Items: View 22 Items
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CollectionVariety Stage Sound Recordings and Motion Pictures The 61 motion pictures in the Variety Stage Sound Recordings and Motion Pictures include animal acts, burlesque, dance, comic sketches, dramatic excerpts, dramatic sketches, physical culture acts, and tableaus. The films represented date from copyrights of 1897 to 1920; the majority are drawn from the Library's extensive Paper Print Collection. The remaining films were produced by Hans A. Spanuth in Chicago from 1919 to…- Contributor: Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program
- Date: 1996
Collection Items: View 81 Items