- Found In
- Philip Sterling research materials on Bert Williams collection of sound recordings.
- Description
- 1 streaming audio file (approximately 23 minutes) : digital, mono.
- Summary
- Philip Sterling, the writer and public relations executive who worked for the Columbia Broadcasting System for many years, reads excerpts from "Notebooks of Bert Williams: anecdotes, jokes, axioms, proverbs, funs and puns..." compiled by Alex Rogers, to his recording device. Strerling uses archival materials from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture Library collection, Bert Williams jokebooks.
- Alternative Title
- Notebooks of Bert Williams
- Philip Sterling research materials on Bert Williams collection of sound recordings.
- Subjects
- Note
- Title provided by cataloger.
- Access (note)
- Access to original reels restricted: use streaming audio access copies available onsite at NYPL Research Libraries.
- Access to original item restricted. Patrons can access streaming audio at NYPL Research Libraries only.
- Additional Formats (note)
- Archival original (1 audiotape reel : analog, mono ; 7 in) available in *LT-7-A 3970.
- Source (note)
- Linking Entry (note)
- Forms part of the Philip Sterling research materials on Bert Williams, *T-Mss 1991-026.
- Call Number
- *LT-7-A 3970
- OCLC
- 919091700
- Author
Sterling, Philip, 1907-1989, speaker.
- Title
Philip Sterling reads notebooks of Bert Williams.
- Production
1957.
- Playing Time
002250
- Type of Content
spoken word
- Type of Medium
audio
computer
- Type of Carrier
audiotape reel
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
audio files WAV file
- Access
Access to original reels restricted: use streaming audio access copies available onsite at NYPL Research Libraries.
- Event
Originally recorded New York 1957 June 5 ; Transcribed (2nd date on original container) 1959 April 18 New York, N.Y.
- Additional Formats
Archival original (1 audiotape reel : analog, mono ; 7 in) available in *LT-7-A 3970.
- Access
Access to original item restricted. Patrons can access streaming audio at NYPL Research Libraries only.
- Linking Entry
Forms part of the Philip Sterling research materials on Bert Williams, *T-Mss 1991-026.
- Source
Gift; Dorothy Sterling; 1991.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Sterling, Dorothy, 1913- donor.
- Added Title
Philip Sterling research materials on Bert Williams collection of sound recordings.
- Found In:
Philip Sterling research materials on Bert Williams collection of sound recordings.
- Research Call Number
*LT-7-A 3970