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1890 |
1878. The world's earliest playable recording: voices for an experimental talking clock.
1888. The Phonograph's Salutation. Spoken by William Gladstone.
1890-1891 "The Third Verse of Mary and John, or The Lovers' Quarrel" (Will White) (RealAudio file from a wax cylinder recording at Early Recorded Sounds and Wax Cylinders.)
1890. July 16. Big Ben Clock Tower (archive.org)
1890. August 2. Trumpeter Landfrey's Charge of the Light Brigade (Landfrey was at the Charge of the Light Brigade in 1854) |
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Emily Dickinson, Poems
Howells, A Hazard of New Fortunes
Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives
James, The Tragic Muse
Sarah Orne Jewett, Tales of New England
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1891 |
"Five Minutes with the Minstrels" ([Voss's] First Regiment Band) (RealAudio file from a wax cylinder recording at Early Recorded Sounds and Wax Cylinders.)
"La Media Noche" (United States Marine Band) (RealAudio file from a wax cylinder recording at Early Recorded Sounds and Wax Cylinders.)
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Death of Melville (b. 1819) in obscurity in New York.
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, A New England Nun and Other Stories
Rose Terry Cooke, Huckleberries Gathered from New England Hills
Howells, Criticism and Fiction
Dickinson, Poems: Second Series
Hamlin Garland,Main-Travelled Roads
Mary N. Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country
Sophia Alice Callahan (Creek, 1868-1894), Wynema: A Child of the Forest (first novel by a Native American woman author) |
1892 |
(1892-1893) "Lanciers with Figures Called" (Issler's Popular Orchestra)(RealAudio file from a wax cylinder recording at Early Recorded Sounds and Wax Cylinders.)
"Take Your Time, Gentlemen" (Press Eldridge) (RealAudio file from a wax cylinder recording at Early Recorded Sounds and Wax Cylinders.)
"The Esquimaux Dance" (Peter Tuson; features as instruments clarinet, piano, anvil, and dog) (RealAudio file from a wax cylinder recording at Early Recorded Sounds and Wax Cylinders.)
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The Clown and his Dogs (dir. Emile Renaud)
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Death of Whitman (b. 1819)
Frances E. W. Harper, Iola Leroy, the most popular work by an African-American woman writer of the 19th century.
Death of Rose Terry Cooke (b. 1827)
Mary Hallock Foote, The Chosen Valley
William Dean Howells, The Quality of Mercy
Grace King, Tales of a Time and Place
Joel Chandler Harris, Uncle Remus and His Friends |
1893 |
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Blacksmith Scene (William K. L. Dickson, Edison Studios)
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Henry James, The Real Thing and Other Tales
Stephen Crane, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets. Crane publishes this edition at his own expense under the pseudonym Johnston Smith.
Alice French (Octave Thanet), Stories of a Western Town
Henry Blake Fuller, The Cliff-Dwellers
Joseph Nicolar, The Life and Traditions of the Red Man (newly discovered Native American text)
McClure's Magazine (New York), 1893-1933, which will become famous for publishing "muckraking" articles from c.1901-12, reformist exposes such as Ida Tarbell's "The History of the Standard Oil Company," Lincoln Steffens's "The Shame of Minneapolis," and Ray Stannard Baker's "The Right to Work." S. S. McClure's My Autobiography (1914) was written by Willa Cather. |
1894 |
Hallelujah Chorus (Battery Band of New York)(RealAudio file from a wax cylinder recording at Early Recorded Sounds and Wax Cylinders.)
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Annie Oakley (RealPlayer)
Athlete with Wand
Buffalo Dance (first appearance of Native Americans before a moving picture camera)
Chinese Opium Den
Corbett and Courtenay before the Kinetograph (boxing)
Edison Kinetographic Record of a Sneeze (Fred Ott's Sneeze)
Carmencita, the Spanish Dancer and scenes from Japan
Imperial Japanese Dance
Sandow (the strong man)
Leonard-Cushing Fight
Miss Jerry (adventures of a "girl reporter")
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Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson
Harriet Prescott Spofford, A Scarlet Poppy and Other Stories
Kate Chopin, Bayou Folk
Howells, A Traveler from Altruria (utopian novel)
Death of Constance Fenimore Woolson (b. 1840)
Edward Everett Hale, The Brick Moon and Other Stories
Gertrude Atherton, Before the Gringo Came |
1895 |
"And Her Golden Hair was Hanging Down Her Back" (Banta's Orchestra) (RealAudio file from a wax cylinder recording at Early Recorded Sounds and Wax Cylinders.)
"Old Folks at Home" (Swanee River) |
L' Arroseur arrosé
Dickson Experimental Sound Film (Note: This has recently been restored to include both sound and picture as Edison intended.)
Chapeaux à transformations
Le Déjeuner du chat
The Execution of Mary Stuart (dir. Thomas Edison)
The Oxford and Cambridge University Boat Race
Repas de bébé (dir. Louis Lumière; one of the first movies ever shot; first shown on December 28, 1895)
Rough Sea at Dover
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Death of Frederick Douglass
Alice Brown, Meadow-Grass: Tales of New England Life
Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Violets and Other Tales
Constance Fenimore Woolson, The Front Yard and Other Italian Stories
Stephen Crane,The Red Badge of Courage; Black Riders
Ina Coolbrith (1841-1928), Songs from the Golden Gate
Hamlin Garland, Rose of Dutcher's Coolly
James Lane Allen, A Kentucky Cardinal
Simon Pokagon, An Indian on the Problems of His Race |
1896 |
"Four Popular Songs of the Day" (at archive.org)
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Butterfly Dance
Bois du Bologne (dir. Georges Méliès)
Awakening of Rip (several short films put together form an adaptation of Washington Irving's "Rip Van Winkle")
The Kiss (This brief scene from The Widow Jones, which featured a kiss between May Irwin and John Rice, was considered scandalous in its day.)
Li Hung Chang at Grant's Tomb
The Prodigal's Return; 3 a.m. (comedy)
Babies' Quarrel
American Falls from Above, American Side (Niagara Falls)
Atlantic City Boardwalk
Trilby and Little Billee (from George Du Maurier's phenomenally popular novel Trilby)
The Terrible Railway Accident
Train Coming Out of Station, Philadelphia, Pa.
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Henry James, "The Figure in the Carpet"
Crane, George's Mother; The Little Regiment and Other Episodes of the American Civil War
Sarah Orne Jewett, The Country of the Pointed Firs
Harold Frederic, The Damnation of Theron Ware
Abraham Cahan, Yekl
Dickinson, Poems: Third Series
Paul Laurence Dunbar, Lyrics of Lowly Life
James Lane Allen, Summer in Arcady
Birth of F. Scott Fitzgerald (d. 1940)
Macmillan Co. founded. |
1897 |
"The Mocking Bird" (whistling solo) (RealAudio file from a wax cylinder recording at Cylinders on the Web)Updated Link
"The Liberty Bell March" (Edison Concert Band) (Note: For those born after 1897, this is probably better known as the theme song to Monty Python's Flying Circus.) (RealAudio file from a wax cylinder recording at Early Recorded Sounds and Wax Cylinders.)
"It Don't Seem Like the Same Old Smile" (George Gaskin) (RealAudio file from a wax cylinder recording at Early Recorded Sounds and Wax Cylinders.) |
Arrest in Chinatown
The Bad Boy and Poor Old Grandpa
Elephants at the Zoo
Fastest Wrecking Crew in the World
Mr. Edison at Work in His Chemical Laboratory
President Cleveland and President McKinley
Return of Lifeboat
Ten Nights in a Barroom
Visit of St. Nicholas
Unveiling of the Washington Monument
An Unfriendly Call (comedy)
Young America (comedy)
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Edwin Arlington Robinson, Children of the Night
Simon Pogagon, "The Future of the Red Man"
Mary Hartwell Catherwood, The Spirit of an Illinois Town and The Little Renault
Ellen Glasgow, The Descendant
Kate Chopin, A Night in Acadie
James, What Maisie Knew; The Spoils of Poynton
Ruth McEnery Stuart, In Simpkinsville: Character Tales
Richard Harding Davis, Soldiers of Fortune
Doubleday & McClure founded.
Death of Harriet Jacobs
Birth of William Faulkner (d. 1962) |
1898 |
"The Charge of Roosevelt's Rough Riders" (Columbia Orchestra) (RealAudio file from a wax cylinder recording at Early Recorded Sounds and Wax Cylinders.)
"The Sleigh-Ride Party"(The Greater New York Quartet)(RealAudio from Early Recorded Sounds and Wax Cylinders.)
"Cocoanut Dance" (Vess L. Ossman, the Banjo King)(RealAudio from Robert's Old Schmaltz Archives)
"Baby, Baby" (Miss Minnie S. Emmett, "first female American recording star")(RealAudio from Early Recorded Sounds and Wax Cylinders.)
"A Bunch of Rags" (Vess L. Ossman at archive.org)
Chopin, Nocturne in F (Joseph Pizzarello)(RealAudio from Early Recorded Sounds and Wax Cylinders.)
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Roosevelt's Rough Riders Embarking for Santiago
Roosevelt's Rough Riders
War Correspondents, 21 April 1898 (New URL)
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Gertrude Atherton, The Californians
Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War
Henry James, "The Turn of the Screw"
Stephen Crane, The Open Boat and Other Tales of Adventure
Brander Matthews, Outlines in Local Color
Abraham Cahan, The Imported Bridegroom and Other Stories
Frank Norris, Moran of the "Lady Letty"
Death of Edward Bellamy (b. 1850)
Death of Harold Frederic (b. 1856) |
1899 |
"Whistling Rufus" (Vess L. Ossman, the Banjo King) (RealAudio file from a wax cylinder recording at Early Recorded Sounds and Wax Cylinders.)
"At the Circus"(RealAudio file from a wax cylinder recording at Early Recorded Sounds and Wax Cylinders.)
"Snyder, Does Your Mother Know You're Out? (with yodels)" (German dialect song; George P. Watson at archive.org)
"Mrs. McCloud's Reel" (Irish bagpipe)(RealAudio file from a wax cylinder recording at Early Recorded Sounds and Wax Cylinders.)
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Chesnutt, The Conjure Woman and The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line
Crane,The Monster and War is Kind
Kate Chopin, The Awakening
Alice Dunbar-Nelson, The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories
Alice Brown, Tiverton Tales
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-paper
James,The Awkward Age
Norris, McTeague; Blix
Harriet Prescott Spofford (1835-1921), The Nemesis of Motherhood |