This is a collection of historic spoken word recordings from the turn of the 20th century that are in the public domain and which have been digitally remastered and restored.

25 MP3 Songs
SPOKEN WORD: Inspirational, SPOKEN WORD: Poetry

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Politicians

1 William Jennings Bryan
Title: Immortality (Campaign Speech)
Recording Date: 1908

2 Woodrow Wilson
Title: Address To American Indians
Recording Date: 1913

3 Grover Cleveland
Title: Unknown (Campaign Speech)
Recording Date: 1892

4 William McKinley
Title: Unknown (Speech at Republican Convention)
Recording Date: 1896

5 William Howard Taft
Title: Rights and Progress of the Negro (Campaign Speech)
Recording Date: 1908

6 Theodore Roosevelt
Title: The Right of the People to Rule (Campaign Speech)
Recording Date: August 1912

7 Garrett A. Hobart (Vise President)
Title: Words of Welcome
Recording Date: May 1, 1898

Inventors & Explorers

8 Lt. Ernest H. Shackleton
Title: My South Polar Expedition
Recording Date: March 30, 1910

9 Commander Robert E Peary
Title: The Discovery Of The North Pole
Recording Date: 1910

10 Thomas A. Watson
Title: Unknown (Talking About Bell Inventing the Telephone)
Recording Date: 1914

11 Thomas A. Edison
Title: "Let Us never Forget" (Talking About the Aftermath of WWII)
Recording Date: 1916

Authors & Poets

12 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Title: Unknown (Talking About Sherlock Holmes and Spiritualism)
Recording Date: May 14, 1930

13 WB Yeats
Title: The Lake Isle of Innisfree (Reading From His Poem)
Recording Date: October 4, 1932

14 George Bernard Shaw
Title: Einstein and the Jews (Speech Promoting Jewry at an Event Honoring Einstein)
Recording Date: October 28, 1930

15 G.K. Chesterton
Title: The Spices Of Life
Recording Date: Unknown (Mid 1930's)

16 Oscar Wilde
Title: The Ballad Of Reading Jail (Reading From His Poem)
Recording Date: 1898

17 Leo Tolstoy
Title: "For Every Day" (Reading From His Book in English)
Recording Date: 1907

Interesting Persons

18 Harry Houdini
Title: The Chinese Water Torture Chamber (Practicing Spiel During a Rehearsal)
Recording Date: 1914

19 Florence Nightingale
Title: Greetings to the Dear Old Comrades of Balaclava (Speech for Veteran's Benefit)
Recording Date: July 30, 1890

20 Edwin Booth
Title: "Othello" (Reading from Shakespeare)
Recording Date: 1892

21 General Nelson A. Miles
Title: Unknown (Remarks During His Visit at the Edison Laboratory)
Recording Date: December 28, 1914

22 Andrew Carnegie
Title: Unknown (This is the Audio From a Lost Edison Kinetophone Movie)
Recording Date: January 20, 1914

23 William F. Cody (Buffalo Bill)
Title: "Sentiments on the Cuban Question"
Recording Date: April 20, 1898

24 General William Booth
Title: Salvation Army Speech
Recording Date: 1902

25 Pope Leo XIII
Title: Benediction To The Catholic People
Recording Date: 1903