From the Department of Special Collections at University of California, Santa Barbara comes this huge collection of digitized cylinder recordings. Seems like this would be a great resource for a student or researcher trying to put together multimedia piece on early 20th century life.
If nothing else, it’s a nice place to escape from the daily grind for just a few moments.
I was particularly taken with this 1921 recording of the Imperial Marimba Band doing the 12th Street Rag.
