For those of you interested in early recordings of music and other pieces, check out this site at the Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project from the Donald C. Davidson Library, U.C.S.B.
To get an idea of the scope and range, check out the browse by genre section here.
You can listen to a stream, or download MP3, or download an unedited version.
Some gems:
1 : Russell Hunting giving his famous recitation of Casey at the Bat. [from 1898] (Here's the Wikipedia backgrounder on CATB for the unititiated.)
2 : Lieutenant E. H. Shackleton "My South Polar Expedition". (1910)
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