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vinyl record, 33 1/3 rpm

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vinyl record, 33 1/3 rpm

Date: circa 1950
Inventory Number: WJ1227
Classification: Record
Subject:
psychology,
Maker: Sound Seminars
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons, Inc. (1807-present)
Maker: Audio Devices Inc
Cultural Region:
United States,
Place of Origin:
New York, Cincinnati,
Dimensions:
box: 2.8 × 31 × 31 cm (1 1/8 × 12 3/16 × 12 3/16 in.)
record: 0.1 × 30.5 × 30.5 cm (1/16 × 12 × 12 in.)
Material:
paper, cardboard, vinyl,
Description:
One 33 1/3 RPM vinyl record packaged in paper sleeve and cardboard jacket.
Signedon jacket and record label: Sound Seminars / 2355 Beechmont Ave. / Cincinnati, Ohio
on sleeve: AUDIO DEVICES, INC. / 444 Madison Ave. / New York 22, N.Y.
on record label: JOHN WILEY AND SONS, INC.
InscribedOn label: SOUND SEMINARS Recorded Lectures and Disscussions. EDWIN G. BORING, THE GREAT MAN IN THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE. Sound Seminars 2355 Beechmont Ave. Cincinnati, Ohio.
on box: "Miss A. Katz Memorial Hall 117, Fragile Record. rec'd from Lamont 11/20/62 to go with Lanyon book.
on record label: BORING, LANGFELD AND WELD / FOUNDATIONS OF PSYCHOLOGY / CHOPPED SPEECH
Curatorial RemarksThis record on chopped speech is an audio disk based on discussions and from the textbook published by the three authors mentioned on the record label:
Edwin G. Boring, Herbert S. Langfeld, and Harry P. Weld, Foundations of Psychology (New York: Wiley, 1948), 632 pages.

See reference to this record in the manual to #WJ1224, p. 35. It states that both recordings are from the Harvard Psycho-Acoustic Laboratory and are for use with chapter 14 of Foundations of Psychology.
ProvenancePsychology Department, William James Hall, Harvard University.

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