Description
Item Description:Originally recorded from 1927 to 1928.
Transferred from 78 rpm discs (Victor Records) to a 1/2 track mono reel-to-reel machine at 7 1/2 ips.
Selected tracks under the direction of H.M. Ayres, Columbia, in addition to Cabell Greet.
Includes text of a poem "Grip the rat" as used by Greet at Columbia University, a list of titles within American speech records series, and a letter from Tom Wilmeth (transferer of audio recording from disk to tape).
Collection is missing the following tracks: Disc 66-A (St. Lawrence County), Disc 66 (Northern New York State and Columbia, South Carolina), Disc 70 (Rockbridge, Ohio and Bismarck, Illinois).
Title from accompanying text.
Physical Description:1 audiotape reel : magnetic, mono ; 18 cm, 1 mm tape