100+ year old recording of Teddy Roosevelt giving a speech [xpost /s/obscuremedia]

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Recording was done on wax tubes, so his voice is slightly higher pitched than it sounded in person. There are a ton of audio recordings from the early 1900s, worth checking out to hear some of the vanished accents of America's past.