Sounds of History, The: Reaching for the Empire
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content: FW-ASCH-LP-4757

Time Life.008 B-3
label: Publication, Distribution, Etc. (Imprint)
content: Time Life 1964
label: General
content: Vocal works sung in English. Notes: Descriptive notes by Virgil Thomson on container. Performer(s): Frederic March, Florence Eldridge, narrators ; connective passages read by Charles Collingwood ; original music composed and conducted by Lehman Engel ; various performers in the musical selections.
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Asch, Moses
label: Collection Creator
content: Distler, Marian, 1919-1964
label: Collection Creator
content: Folkways Records
topic: label: Topic
content: Popular music -- United States
label: Topic
content: Frontier & pioneer life
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content: Moses and Frances Asch Collection
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content: Moses and Frances Asch Collection / Series 9: Audio Recordings / LP
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Phonograph record (analog, 33 1/3 rpm, 12 in.)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1964
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
identifier: label: Identifier
content: CFCH.ASCH, Item FW-ASCH-LP-4757
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Phonograph records
scopecontent: label: Contents
content: Documents. From the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 --From John D. Rockefeller's statement on big business (1899) -- "The New Colossus" by Emma Lazarus (1899) --Mary Antin's first impressions of America, from The PromisedLand (1912) -- John P. Altgeld's letter to President Grover Cleveland (1894) --From Mary Elizabeth Lease's speech to farmers on behalf of the Populists (around 1890) --From a recording made by William Jennings Bryan in 1898 of his "Cross of Gold" speech originally delivered in 1896 --From the joint congressional resolution of April 20, 1898, on Cuba -- Admiral George Dewey's diary entry after the battle of Manila Bay (May 1, 1898) --From "An ode in time of hesitation" by William Vaughn Moody (1900) --From The red badge of courage by Stephen Crane (1895) --Mark Hanna's comment on Theodore Roosevelt's suitability as a vice presidential candidate (1900) --President William McKinley's words upon being shot by an assassin (1901) --Assassin Leon Czolgosz tells why he shot President President McKinley (1901) -- Mark Hanna's reaction to President McKinley's death (1901) --Theodore Roosevelt's speech on national purpose (1899) --Music: El Capitan --Sixty-seventh psalm --To a wild rose --Hello Central, give me Heaven --Aria from "Judith" -- Break the news to mother --Chorus from "Hora Novissima -- Gypsy love song --Maple leaf rag --A bird in a gilded cage -- The Washington Post.