Library Of Congress

Library Of Congress One of the three federally supported “national” libraries of the U.S., established in 1800. The library’s activities in the area of recorded sound began in the 1920s, as Carl Engel became chief of the music division. When his tenure commenced in 1922, the library had but one recording, a cylinder made in 1904 of Kaiser Wilhelm II, received by donation. Since recordings were not at that time received by the U.S. Copyright Office (a unit within the Library of Congress), Engel…