print email comment close British Library: Archival Sound Recordings URL: http://sounds.bl.uk/ Description: This site from the British Museum contains "over 1,500 recordings of UK dialects, British wildlife and ethnographic wax cylinders. ... The over 200 rare wax cylinder recordings from the World and Traditional Music collections ... [feature] music, songs and speech from around the world, captured on the first portable recording machines between 1898 and 1915." Publisher: The British Library Board Library of Congress Subject Headings: British Library Sound archives Sound recordings -- Catalogs LII Database Information: Record 2996 created by Sue Kane on 07/05/2001 Last modification on 01/16/2009 Published: 07/05/2001   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/2996