Federal Cylinder Project

Federal Cylinder Project A major program of the Archive of Folk Culture in the Library of Congress, which owns one of the largest collections of field cylinder recordings in the world. In 1979 the Library of Congress inaugurated the project, intending to preserve and duplicate wax cylinder recordings, document and preserve cylinder collections, and disseminate the results to the public. Federal label. Courtesy David A. Jasen Engineers Robert Carneal and John Howell supervised the delicate task…