HISTORIC VOICES

Have you ever wondered what famous people in the past sounded like?  Here's 25 snippets -- dating from 1890 to the mid Thirties -- of some rare recordings of historic voices* from the past:

• William Jennings Bryan
• Woodrow Wilson
• Grover Cleveland
• William McKinley
• William Howard Taft
• Theodore Roosevelt
• Vice President Garrett A. Herbert
• Ernest Shackleton
• Robert E. Peary
• Thomas A. Watson (Edison's assistant)
• Thomas Edison
• Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• W. B. Yeats
• George Bernard Shaw
• G. K. Chesterton
• Oscar Wilde
• Leo Tolstoy
• Harry Houdini
• Florence Nightingale
• Edwin Booth
• General Nelson A. Miles (Commander of the US Army in the Spanish-American War)
• Andrew Carnagie
• Buffalo Bill
• Pope Leo XIII

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtU7SwMyUqM

*There's some question whether the recording of Oscar Wilde is really by him (see comments to the post).