Here is a note about the Boston records as well as the 78s project which
include 20 other collections.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/boston-public-library-will-digitize-200000-vintage-recordings-180966931/
On 6/26/2018 3:33 PM, Clark Johnsen wrote:
> Just askin': Has any attention been paid to getting unworn or un-noisy
> sides for this laudable preservation effort? When I read just now that your
> source was a public library where patrons would have been borrowing them
> and/or playing them on any sort of machine, it made me wonder. By the way,
> are you in Boston?
>
> On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 3:52 PM, Brewster Kahle <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
>> for the fanatics (well, like me), we have another 6,000 78rpm sides up
>> on archive.org as part of the Great 78 Project. (now 74k digitized
>> <https://archive.org/details/georgeblood> total)
>>
>> I was able to find dates for 91% of them, and volunteers have started on
>> others.
>>
>> Lots of Victors and Deccas, almost all from the Boston Public Library
>>
>> link to the new ones:
>>
>>
>> https://archive.org/details/georgeblood?and%5B%5D=
>> publicdate%3A%5B2018-06-10+TO+*%5D&sin=&sort=-publicdate
>>
>> onward!
>>
>> -brewster
>>
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