Radio Diaries
Professor Thomas Levin Rescues Audio Letters
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Early voicemail as vinyl phonograph records.
“We’re all accustomed to recording and hearing our own voices. But in the 1930s, many people were doing it for the first time. And a surprising trend began. People started sending their voices to each other through the postal service. It was literally: Voice-Mail.
Most of these audio letters have been lost, but Tom Levin has made it his goal to rescue those that remain. He has a growing collection of about 4,000 in his Phono Post Archive at Princeton University.”
(Courtesy of the Radio Diaries Team)
