Box of Phonograph Cylinders Containing Dialect Recordings Made by Joseph Wright and Sir William Craigie, 1900-1902

In a large partly fitted wooden case. The cylinders are mostly in blue card boxes, some stamped with the supplier's name, James Russell & Co., Oxford. All the blue boxes have labels on top, mostly dated 1900 or 1902. One cylinder is in a brown 'Edison Bell Phonograph Co Ld.' box and marked 'Newcastle Dialect' on the bottom. Twelve cylinders recording English and Scottish dialect were acquired from Joseph Wright's widow in 1937, along with Wright's phonograph (89910). The dates and the comments or titles “Not so loud ...” and “Comparative Specimen” on some of the cylinders suggest that Wright and then Craigie were essentially experimenting with the method at that stage, June-July 1900.