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Sound recording engineers G. Robert Vincent and H. E. Reeves set up equipment to record a wax cylinder of one of Theodore Roosevelt’s addresses onto motion picture film.
Sherman Grinberg Film Collection
1937-06
This tape recording presents the audio from several Edison Amberol cylinders which originally recorded speeches by Theodore Roosevelt given in 1912. Speeches presented here include “The Right of the People to Rule,” “The Farmer and the Businessman,” “Social and Industrial Justice,” and “The Progressive Covenant.” Additionally, there are several iterations of Roosevelt’s address to the Boys Progressive League in 1912, including one prefaced by an introduction by Daniel Carter Beard, the founder of the organization the Sons of Daniel Boone, which later merged with the Boy Scouts of America.
Theodore Roosevelt Association
1969-05-20