Twentieth Century Wars on Tape
The war recordings of two men: David Terry Smith and Merlyn Snyder emerged during our production of this Lost & Found segment, but we were not able to include them in the final piece.

Friendly Reading
The full version of the original Fred Friendly speech delivered for the opening of the Quonset Naval Air Station in Rhode Island in 1943.

Music in Marble Halls
Tony Schwartz composed the Lost & Found Sound series theme music, "Music in Marble Halls." He recorded it in the lobby of 14 East 36th Street in New York City in the late 1950s. Clarinet by Jimmy Giuffre with Mrs. Giuffre on High Heels.

Gettysburg Address
The full version of the original 78 rpm record, parts of which were used in our story called "Gettysburg Eyewitness" which aired February 15, 1999. Here, William V. Rathvon tells about the events leading up to Abraham Lincoln's visit to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania and Rathvon reads the entire Gettysburg Address, which he witnessed as a nine-year-old in 1863.

Louie
This sound is a mystery to us. It comes from a record found by The Kitchen Sisters, Davia Nelson and Nikki Silva in Nikki's father's garage. It was labeled "To Louie, Love Mrs. B." She talks to him about her life on the home front during World War II and is a real time capsule which holds all that she feels while her husband is away at war. This record was the inspiration for our Quest for Sound.

Hazel (New Yawk Talk)
Linguist professor William Labov recorded this interview with a woman he identifies only as "Hazel" to capture her strong New York City accent. Can you tell she's from New York?

Leon (New Yawk Talk)
To get his subjects to open up, Linguists Professor William Labov asked them to describe life-threatening events in their lives. A man he identifies as "Leon" talks about a near fatal incident and his life in the military. We hear the New York accent Leon speaks with.

Orson Welles Plays Brutus in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar
Dr. Robert O'Brien called our QUEST FOR SOUND phone line to tell us about his vast collection of Shakespeare plays on records. Among his treasures is a performance by Orson Welles and his Mercury Theater Company of William Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar." The Columbia recording is from 1938.

Hello Frisco 1915
An example of the early songs that popularized the word "Hello," which was introduced by Thomas Edison as a way to answer the telephone. This is from the collection of David Giovannoni.

Telegraph Demonstration
Morse code was the digital communication mode of the beginning of this century. The dots and the dashes conveyed letters, words, sentences. From the Marvin Bensman Collection at the University of Memphis we hear a Morse Code lesson from the first decades of this century.

Boston Common
On a cold fall day in 1967, Emerson College students Glenn Branca, Michael Zotzmann and Art Silverman went to nearby Boston Common to interview people about issues of the day. Captured on a portable tape recorder, we hear how the topics of drugs and hippies provoke a lively discussion.

Sousa "King Cotton"
The great march composer and conductor John Phillip Sousa took advantage of the technology of the day, recording his "King Cotton March" on a wax cylinder made by the Edison company.

Voice of the City
In the massive archives of AT&T are stored all manner of promotional materials, including this from 1938 -- sound from a newsreel telling citizens of the frantic nature of a big city telephone system.

The Dial Tone
Some sounds have come and gone in the 20th century. A prime example is the telephone rotary dial. This 1932 AT&T newsreel introduces the dial to novice subscribers.

Memorial Day
A Memorial Day speech given on the lawn in front of the courthouse in Liberty, Indiana, in 1983 by Joseph Alvin Sawyer, Sr., the first African-American veteran to have that honor. It was submitted to our Quest for Sound by his daughter, Joanne Sawyer Knoll, and his sons, Joseph and Russell Sawyer.

Extinct Tongues: South African Language
A woman singing a lullaby to her baby in the lost language of Kukasi.

Tony Schwartz
Read a profile of Tony Schwartz, an innovative and inspired sound gatherer, who has recorded the sounds of America since 1945. A man who will venture no further than his postal zone, Mr. Schwartz has made more than 30,000 home recordings in the streets, delis, cabs, playgrounds and stoops of his New York neighborhood. We also feature Mr. Schwartz's recording of W.E.B. DuBois, former President of the Pan-African Congress.

The Rise and Fall and Rise and Fall and Rise of Thomas Alva Edison
Part II - Edison and the Competition
(Produced by The Kitchen Sisters, Davia Nelson & Nikki Silva)

The Rise and Fall and Rise and Fall and Rise of Thomas Alva Edison
Part I
(Produced by The Kitchen Sisters, Davia Nelson & Nikki Silva)