![]() Photo credit: Joan & Robin Rolfs Title: There was a little girl (poem written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) Record type: Edison Talking Doll cylinder, brown wax (production design) Recording date and location: c. February to May 1890, Edison Phonograph Works, West Orange, New Jersey From collection: Joan and Robin Rolfs Provenance of the cylinder: As Joan Rolfs explains: "Prior to 1994, collector Lenon Hoyte owned the doll to which this cylinder is attached. Mrs. Hoyte had a doll museum, an old three story brown stone in Harlem, NY, known as Aunt Len's Doll Museum. Auntie Len's collection was a major attraction in Harlem and doll collectors all over the east coast found their way to her museum." Source of the digital audio: The cylinder was digitized on August 21, 2014 at Northeast Document Conservation Center using IRENE-3D scanning technology. The requested video is no longer available.
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