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Title
[Brown wax home recording of Lincoln's Gettysburg address, recited by Herbert D. West]
Contributor
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
West, Herbert D
Date Created and/or Issued
1890-1928
Contributing Institution
UC Santa Barbara, Library, Department of Special Research Collections
Collection
Cylinder Audio Archive
Rights Information
copyright unknown
MP3 files of the cylinders available for download are copyrighted by the Regents of the University of California. They are licensed for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 2.5 License. Acknowledgments for reuse of the transfers should read "University of California, Santa Barbara Library." The original wav files (either unedited or restored) can be provided upon request for commercial or non-commercial use such as CD reissues, film/tv synchronization, use on websites or in exhibits. The University of California makes no claims or warranties as to the copyright status of the original recordings and charges a use fee for the use of the transfers. Please contact the University of California, Santa Barbara Library Department of Special Research Collections for information on licensing cylinder transfers. Full contact information can be found at: http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/licensing.php.
Description
Announcement at beginning: "--speech [...] at Gettysburg by Herbert D. West of Rockville, Connecticut; Lincoln's speech [with those?] at Gettysburg by Herbert D. West of Rockville, Connecticut."
Brown wax cylinder.
Place of recording likely the United States.
Herbert D. West.
Male recitation. The speaker was a carpenter in Rockville City, Connecticut, born in 1862.
Also available online via the Internet.
Sung in English.
The David Giovannoni Collection of home cylinder recordings (Set Number: 191-01, Originally acquired: John Levin, Union Phonograph Show 2012).
Type
sound
Format
Audio
Audio cylinder
Electronic resource
Extent
1 cylinder (ca. 2 min.) : 121.4 rpm ; 2 1/4 x 4 in.
Identifier
(OCoLC)881048573
Language
English
Subject
Speeches, addresses, etc., American
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Personal recordings
Time Period
Civil War, 1861-1865
Place
United States

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