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Library of Congress Creates Registry for Historic Sound

By Elizabeth Blair

Published January 27, 2003 at 12:00 AM EST

The Library of Congress opens the National Recording Registry and announces the first 50 sound recordings historically or culturally significant. NPR's Elizabeth Blair reports.

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