- Collection:
- Laurel Falls Camp-Recordings
- Title:
- Sound recording of Lillian Smith's sister Esther interpreting short poems, December 21, 1957, LS01_087
- Creator:
- Smith, Lillian (Lillian Eugenia), 1897-1966
- Date of Original:
- 1925/1949
- Subject:
- Laurel Falls Camp for Girls (Ga.)
Camps--Georgia--Rabun County - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Rabun County, Clayton, 34.87815, -83.40099
- Medium:
- lacquer discs
- Type:
- Sound
- Format:
- audio/mpeg
- Description:
- Lillian Smith's sister Esther reads various poems: To Jesus on His Birthday, The Buck in the Snow, Sonnet 129, by Edna St. Vincent Millay. Sonnets 18, 29, and 30 by Shakespeare. A sonnet attributed to David Morton named To One Who May Be Listening. Another Psalm by Margaret Steedman. Prayer for a Prayer and Of a Woman, Dead Young by Dorothy Parker. An Epitaph by A.E. Housman. A Lullaby by George O'Neal. Tears by Lizette Woodworth Reece. Let No Charitable Hope by Elinor Wylie. To a Poet, A Thousand Years Hence by James Elroy Flecker. Up-Hill by Christina Rosetti. Music I Heard by Conrad Aiken. When You Are Old by W.B. Yeats.
Side A: 1 segment of woman reading poetry. Side B: 1 segment of woman reading poetry (continuation). Handwritten on Disc Labels/Container: For Lillian and Paula From Helen Bull; NA.
Digitization of the audio recordings of the Laurel Falls Camp collection was funded by the Recordings at Risk (RAR) program of the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). https://www.clir.org/recordings-at-risk/
Medium & Playback Notes: 12-inch; aluminum-based; nitrocellulose lacquer disc; 33.33rpm; lateral-cut; outside-start; 2.0mil; elliptical stylus at 2.47g. Digitization Notes: Created (1) dual-mono 24bit, 96kHz Preservation Master File (using no compensation EQ); (1) mono-summed 24bit, 96kHz Intermediate Master (with compensation equalization); (1) mono-summed Modified Master (clicks/pops & surface noise reduced).
Transcripts were generated by voice recognition software. Some have been edited, which will be an ongoing enhancement project. - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- http://cdm17007.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/LFCrecordings/id/30
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- Piedmont University
This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that apply to your use. For other uses, contact archives@piedmont.edu. - Extent:
- 0:18:39
- Original Collection:
- Laurel Falls Camp Collection
- Holding Institution:
- Piedmont College. Library
- Rights:
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