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Description
Brown wax cylinder. Inscription on slip: "Record Taken Nov 27 1898 / W H Greenhow / Mother / Mrs R C Wombough / Mrs Emma June Wombough / Mabel Wombough / Helen Wombough / June W. by proxy / Olive [inserted on side] / Mrs R C Wombough / WHG / Mrs RCW"; at bottom, underlined: "Not good." W. H. Greenhow and others. Speech begins: "...Thanksgiving party at the house of William H. Greenhow, Fifty-eight Hill Street, November twenty-seventh eighteen hundred and ninety-eight." The guests each speak in turn, naming themselves as follows: "Mary Frodsham Greenhow," W. H. Greenhow's mother; "R. C. Wombough," i.e., Rachel Cornelia (Loveland) Wombough, born 1815; "E. J. Wombough," i.e., Emma J. Wombough, R. C.'s daughter-in-law and the widow of Charles Wombough, whose first wife had been W. H. Greenhow's sister Maggie (d. 1882); "Mabel Wombough," daughter of Charles and Maggie (Greenhow) Wombough; "Helen Wombough," daughter of Charles and Emma J. Wombough; then W. H. Greenhow says: "Little Jennie Wombough, twelve years old, declines to give her name; she will be excused on account of bashfulness"; she was another daughter of Charles and Emma J. Wombough; then: "R. C. Wombough, born in Delaware County, Franklin, Delaware County, eighteen hundred fifteen, eighteen hundred and fifteen"; then W. H. Greenhow: "We've had a very entertaining afternoon with the phonograph, we hope that all have enjoyed it," etc.; he sings an unidentified song about the woods in summer. Finally, R. C. Wombough speaks again: "I came to Addison, to this county, in thirty-seven. I've lived in one place sixty years or two [laughs]. Now I [...]... Henry Wombough... came to Addison in eighteen hundred four." Also available online via the Internet. Sung in English. The David Giovannoni Collection of home cylinder recordings (William Henry Greenhow Collection, Set Number: 134-02, Originally acquired: Wayne show, October 2008).
Type
sound
Format
Audio Audio cylinder Electronic resource
Extent
1 cylinder (ca. 2 min.) : 81.1 rpm ; 2 1/4 x 4 in.
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