Brewster,
The Zono data is all in DAHR.
Dave Lewis
On Thu, Nov 11, 2021 at 1:40 AM Brewster Kahle <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> The Internet Archive would like to date about 70,000 of the recordings
> transferred from 78rpm records so far in the Great78Project.
>
> https://archive.org/details/georgeblood?query=NOT+date%3A*
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> (oh, we just got another 2,500 dated thanks to a recent database dump of
> DAHR from David Seubert)
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> We are particularly interested in ones likely to be pre-1925 since we
> will have one heck-of-a Public Domain Day party on Jan 20th (all are
> welcome virtually and in person) since all sound recordings pre 1925
> will be going into the public domain (thank you Ron Wyden, ARSC, Public
> Knowledge, EFF, Internet Archive, and others)
>
> One source of dates might be The American Zonophone Discography parts 1
> and 2, but the website says "All Mainspring Press books and CDs have now
> sold out." and discontinued. http://www.mainspringpress.com/
>
> Not available on Better World Books or Amazon.com.
>
> I did not see it digitized from the publisher.
>
> If someone has these books would they be helpful in dating our records?
> Any other books you think of? We have the Decca and Columbia
> discographies and a bunch of others. Anyone willing to part with their
> books?
>
> Any help would be welcome. And anyone that wants to help date these
> disks could be most welcome as well.
>
> -brewster
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