The Princeton Phono Post Archive

For four decades, from the twenties, right up until the mid sixties, people were recording their voices and mailing them to each other. Tom had discovered the lost history of voice mail, gramophonic letters. Soon after tom began collecting, he received a generous grant to digitize, transcribe and catalogue every gramophonic letter he could find. Ten years later, this tiny office in the german department at princeton university is home to the largest collection of audio letters in the world,. alphabetical first by country.