Pendaftaran Rekaman Nasional
2002

Pada 27 Januari 2003, 50 seleksi berikut ini diumumkan oleh Badan Penyajian Rekaman Nasional.
| Rekaman atau koleksi | Pementas atau agen | Tahun | Arsip Nasional |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Rekaman-rekaman pameran Edison (Grup dari tiga silinder): "Around the World on the Phonograph"  "The Pattison Waltz"  "Fifth Regiment March" | Thomas Edison | 1888–1889 |  |
| Rekaman lapangan Passamaquoddy Indians | Direkam oleh Jesse Walter Fewkes | 1890 |  |
| "Stars and Stripes Forever"  (rekaman cakram Berliner Gramophone) | Band Militer | 1897 |  |
| Rekaman silinder Metropolitan Opera (Mapleson Cylinders) | Lionel Mapleson dan Metropolitan Opera | 1900–1903 |  |
| Roll piano komposisi Ragtime | Scott Joplin | 1900-an |  |
| Pidato Eksposisi Atlanta 1895 | Booker T. Washington | Pembuatan ulang tahun 1906 | salinan |
| "Casey at the Bat" | DeWolf Hopper | 1906 |  |
| "Vesti la giubba" dari Pagliacci | Enrico Caruso | 1907 |  |
| "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" | Fisk Jubilee Singers | 1909 |  |
| Lovey's Trinidad String Band | Lovey's Trinidad String Band | 1912 |  |
| "Tiger Rag" | Original Dixieland Jazz Band | 1918 |  |
| "Arkansas Traveler" dan "Sallie Gooden" | Eck Robertson | 1922 |  |
| "Downhearted Blues" | Bessie Smith | 1923 |  |
| Rhapsody in Blue | George Gershwin, piano; Paul Whiteman Orkestra | 1924 |  |
| Rekaman-rekaman Hot Five dan Hot Seven pimpinan Louis Armstrong | Hot Five and Hot Seven pimpinan Louis Armstrong | 1925–1928 |  |
| Sesi-sesi Victor Talking Machine Company di Bristol, Tennessee | Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Ernest Stoneman, dan lain-lain | 1927 |  |
| Kumpulan Rekaman Lapangan Highlander Center | Rosa Parks, Esau Jenkins dan lain-lain | 1930-an–1980-an |  |
| Rekman-rekaman stereo eksperimental Bell Laboratories | Philadelphia Orchestra; Leopold Stokowski, konduktor | 1931–1932 |  |
| Siaran-siaran radio "Fireside Chats" | Franklin D. Roosevelt | 1933–1944 | asli |
| Serial rekaman Harvard Vocarium | T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden dan lain-lain | 1933–1956 |  |
| Serial rekaman "New Music Quarterly" | Henry Cowell, produser | 1934–1949 |  |
| Deskripsi kecelakaan Hindenburg | Herbert Morrison | 6 Mei 1937 | asli |
| The Cradle Will Rock  (Marc Blitzstein) | Pemeran asli | 1938 |  |
| "Who's on First?"  Versi siaran radio terawal yang masih ada | Abbott and Costello | 6 Oktober 1938 |  |
| The War of the Worlds | Orson Welles dan The Mercury Theatre on the Air | 30 Oktober 1938 | salinan |
| "God Bless America"   Siaran perdana radio | Kate Smith | 11 November 1938 |  |
| Kunjungan Rekaman Negara-Negara Bagian Selatan John dan Ruby Lomax | John dan Ruby Lomax | 1939 |  |
| "Strange Fruit" | Billie Holiday | 1939 |  |
| Grand Ole Opry Siaran radio jaringan pertama | Uncle Dave Macon, Roy Acuff, dan lain-lain | 14 Oktober 1939 |  |
| Béla Bartók dan Joseph Szigeti dalam Konser di Perpustakaan Kongres | Béla Bartók, piano; Joseph Szigeti, biola | 1940 |  |
| The Rite of Spring | Igor Stravinsky mengkonduksikan New York Philharmonic | 1940 |  |
| Rekaman-rekaman era Blanton-Webster | Orkestra Duke Ellington | 1940–1942 |  |
| "White Christmas" singel tahun 1942 asli | Bing Crosby | 1942 |  |
| "This Land is Your Land" | Woody Guthrie | 1944 |  |
| Penyampaian radio D-Day kepada Bangsa-bangsa Sekutu | Dwight D. Eisenhower | 6 Juni 1944 | asli |
| "Ko Ko" | Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, dan lain-lain | 1945 |  |
| "Blue Moon of Kentucky" | Bill Monroe dan Blue Grass Boys | 1947 |  |
| "How High the Moon" | Les Paul dan Mary Ford | 1951 |  |
| Songs for Young Lovers | Frank Sinatra | 1954 |  |
| Sesi-sesi Sun Records | Elvis Presley | 1954–1955 |  |
| Dance Mania | Tito Puente | 1958 |  |
| Kind of Blue | Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderley, Bill Evans, dan lain-lain | 1959 |  |
| "What'd I Say", Bagian 1 dan 2 | Ray Charles | 1959 |  |
| The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan | Bob Dylan | 1963 |  |
| Pidato "I Have a Dream" | Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. | 28 Agustus 1963 | salinan |
| "Respect" | Aretha Franklin | 1967 |  |
| Philomel: For Soprano | Bethany Beardslee, rekaman soprano, dan suara synthesizer | 1971 |  |
| Precious Lord: New Recordings of the Great Gospel Songs of Thomas A. Dorsey | Thomas A. Dorsey,  Marion Williams,  dan lain-lain | 1973 |  |
| Koleksi Legenda Hidup Kota Bulan Sabit (Arsip Yayasan Warisan dan Jazz New Orleans/WWOZ New Orleans) |  | 1973–1990 |  |
| "The Message" | Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five | 1982 |  |