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Thread #157376 Message #3713979
Posted By: Lighter
02-Jun-15 - 10:19 AM
Thread Name: Folklore: How did 19th century Americ sound?
Subject: RE: Folklore: How did 19th century Americ sound?
Will, Edison made a brief recording of somebody from the NYC are (possibly Walt Whitman himself) reciting a few lines of one of Whitman's poems.
Whoever it is, the voice from the 1890s sounds a good deal like my grandfather, born in the '80s. And he sounded almost exactly like Archie Bunker.