Yale Collection Of Historical Sound Recordings

Yale Collection Of Historical Sound Recordings One of the principal archives of its kind, established as a department of the Yale University Libraries in 1961 with an initial deposit of about 20,000 recordings by Mrs. and Mrs. Laurence C. Witten II. Many other individuals and organizations have since contributed records and documentation to the collection, which numbered over 160,000 recordings in various formats as of 2002. Composer recordings are a major concentration; another focus is on…